BEDSIDE MANNERS: RN with CNM Homebirth Practice and Professional Labor Support Doula

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Last updated 11/18/07

MISSION STATEMENT
To provide compassionate and comprehensive education and support to the childbearing family during pregnancy, labor, birth and the immediate postpartum period to facilitate a satisfying birth experience for all members of the birth team.

BIRTH PHILOSOPHY
Uncomplicated childbirth is an everyday blessing, not a medical emergency. Each woman already has within her everything it takes to birth her baby and can labor and birth her own way most effectively in an environment where she feels safe and loved.

What is Bedside Manners?

Bedside Manners is an independent contractor for Homebirth and Women's Health, a certified nurse-midwife hombirth service of Northern Indiana and Southwest Michigan. Together they comprise the only fully legal homebirth option in the Allen and surrounding counties area. Janis Chrissikos has been a registered nurse (RN) since 1993, with a background in ICU and forensics. She has been a professional labor support provider, or doula, originally certified through BirthWorks. She now is the RN assistant to a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) who provides homebirth services with complete prenatal and postpartum care. Janis is an experienced breastfeeding mother with three daughters and three sons, the first baby born in a hospital with an OB and the last five born at home with midwives. See My Biography page for more information.

Bedside Manners contact information:

Janis Chrissikos RN and Homebirth Assistant

1755 CR 36

Auburn, IN 46706

Phone 260-357-5888

Cell 260-704-7166

Email jlc1755@verizon.net

My services.......

Serving Allen, Dekalb, Elkhart, Kosciosko, Noble, Steuben, and Whitley Counties. Homebirth and Women's Health does offer services in counties further west.

Care provided includes prenatal assistance to supplement midwifery appointments, coordination of health care services and testing (such as physician referrals, ultrasounds, prescriptions, records and paperwork), prenatal homevisit with CNM, assistance to the CNM at the birth and immediate postpartum, minumum of 2 postpartum homevisits, newborn metabolic screen collection, breastfeeding counseling and phone/email support.

Additional options include:

AquaDoula Portable Spa rental
Info on the AquaDoula Portable Spa

Tub rental though Aquadoula.com is $249 plus $180 shipping for a total of $429. RENT THE SAME TUB THROUGH BEDSIDE MANNERS FOR JUST $250, NO SHIPPING FEE, and save $179. Plus all supplies are included. CHECK OUT THE AQUADOULA RENTAL PAGE FOR RENTAL DETAILS.

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What about childbirth education classes?

CHILDBIRTH CLASSES based on BirthWorks Model
Saturday Workshops 8:30AM-5:30 PM in Goshen

Contact Deb Rhizal for more information

www.rhizal.com/birth deb@rhizal.com

To learn more about BirthWorks classes, go to

www.birthworks.org

LAURA GILBERT, CNM - Offering Home Birth, Water Birth, Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), Pospartum Care and Breastfeeding Support. Click for more information!