Please join us for an information-packed meeting about the services and options that we offer at Oak Grove Midwifery of Green Bay, Wisconsin. This is the first step toward establishing your care with our midwives.

We will cover the midwives' background information, training, experience level, and philosophy of care. We will explain the registration process, insurance billing, and self-pay arrangements. We will answer your questions about how we handle unexpected situations and emergencies. The meeting is required for all new clients.

Due to the on-call nature of our duties, the meetings will be held on Wednesdays only. You may choose from the following time-slots for group orientations:

Wednesday Mornings 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Wednesday Afternoons 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

We prefer that you attend the group orientation, however if it is impossible to attend at these times, we will do individual orientations at limited times, by appointment on Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m.

Orientation meetings and individual appointments are subject to cancellation without notice should the midwives be called to a birth.

RSVP: (920) 328-5622 or info@oakgrovebirthcenter.com

Please check out our resources on Springpad! We will be adding usable health information and documents that are helpful to women everywhere!

We must be careful about saying these things. Midwives do NOT empower women. Women are naturally strong; we carry our own power, and that inner power is not something that a midwife or anyone else can bestow.

The very best that women and midwives can hope to accomplish together, is that of experienced women reaching out to and taking the journey with our less-experienced sisters, so our natural strength and inner power can be found, nurtured and held up for each other to see and appreciate, like an image in a mirror, that confirms and affirms what we know, deep down, in our bones to be true, but which we are sometimes afraid to embrace.

We are not talking here about an age exchange. All women are more familiar in some things and less practiced in others. In the true midwifery spirit, both the "midwife" and the women she walks the path with, are able to grow as human beings by our interactions with each other.

As we grow, we can begin to understand how the strength of our grandmothers, mothers, sisters, daughters and granddaughters reflects our own inner strength. When we can see that power all around us, in every age, shape, size and generation, we can begin to see ourselves truly-capable of whatever mountain, hurdle or difficulty that needs to be overcome.

At the end of the day, or many days, a woman who has known and walked with a midwife will look at her accomplishments and say, "I did it myself; if I can do this, I can do anything."

September 1st, 2011

One World Birth launched it's innovative Web-TV station to address the issues of maternal and child mortality, overuse of medical intervention in the birth process, high cesarean rates, unnatural childbirth and artificial feeding of infants.

You may join their mailing list/newsletter and view videos from their media library. 

Here is today's "Launch Film", introducing One World Birth's concept of film making, birth advocacy, campaigning, public relations and access to world-renowned leaders in maternal and infant health.

Best wishes on this endeavor, Toni and Alex(filmakers),