CHARLOTTESVILLE MIDWIFERY
Kelly Sicoli, CNM
Charlottesville, Virginia
National Best Practice
2019, 2020, 2021
Kelly
has been serving birthing families since 2004.
Pregnant & Interested in Home Birth?
Offering a complimentary consultation to meet the midwife, discuss your fit for a home birth, and to answer your questions.
Read Google Reviews for insight from clients on the quality of care.
Community Resources & Referrals
7 Moons: Holistic body work with Jessica Newlyn, LMT. Preconception, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Massage, Craniosacral Therapy, and Arvigo Mayan Abdominal Massage.
Andrea Loving D.O. is an Osteopathic Physician practicing Osteopathic Manual Medicine with a focus on childbearing women and newborns.
Belvedere Integrated Healing Arts: Prenatal and postpartum massage and craniosacral therapy; trauma resolution for adults with Kate White.
Birth Sisters of Charlottesville: women of color community based doula collective supporting women of color through their birth journey and into motherhood. Prenatal, labor, postpartum, and lactation support + classes.
Charlottesville doulas: a directory of birth and postpartum doulas
Charlottesville Pediatric Dentistry: laser frenectomy for babies with tongue and lip ties that impair breastfeeding
Checking In Lactation: Lindsay Baker, RN, IBCLC offers lactation home and virtual visits, in-network with most insurance. Email: lindsay@checkingin.com
Common Ground Healing Arts: Sliding-scale acupuncture, massage, yoga, and meditation at Charlottesville non-profit community wellness center
Flow Lactation: offers in-home and virtual lactation care from pregnancy to weaning. In-network with Aetna.
Harmonize Chiropractic: Dr Lauren Aalders treats pregnant and postpartum moms and babies
Prenatal/New-Mom Yoga: with Sara Zia at Ashtanga Yoga Charlottesville
SEED Acupuncture & Wellness: Kyung Lee, LAc specializes in pregnancy and women's health. KyungnamLAc@gmail.com
Sentara MJH: Childbirth, baby basics, and lactation classes; postpartum support group
Simply Skin: Offering prenatal massage, craniosacral therapy, manual lymph drainage w/ Katherine Alamilla
The Women's Initiative: Mental health services: free walk-in clinic, individual counseling, support groups, mind body classes
truPilates: Charlottesville pilates studio with prenatal and postpartum specific support
UVA Breastfeeding Medicine Program: lactation support to moms and babies with breastfeeding difficultie
Online Resources
Spinning Babies: stretches and techniques to improve fetal positioning, so that birth goes more smoothly. Check out the Daily Activities for Pregnancy, Your Pregnancy Week-by-Week, the Daily Essentials Video, the Parent Class Video, and Rest Smart. In your third trimester, we will show you techniques during your prenatal visits.
The Miles Circuit: a series of positions to relieve pressure on the low back, and encourage rotation of a malpositioned baby. Great to do in early labor, in a labor that has slowed down, or is starting and stopping.
Evidence Based Birth:research-based resources on topics such as Group Beta Strep (GBS), Gestational Diabetes, Natural Induction Methods, Water Immersion in Labor and Waterbirth (many of our families have waterbirths), Use of TENS in Labor (we bring a TENS unit to births as a comfort option), Circumcision, Vitamin K and eye ointment for the newborn, and many more topics!
Postpartum Support Virginia – Postpartum Support Virginia provides hope and help to women and their families who are experiencing anxiety, depression, or other perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs). Great online information about local services.
Aviva Romm MD: Articles and podcasts on natural remedies for pregnancy and women's health by integrative physician-midwife-herbalist. See Headaches in Pregnancy, Heartburn, Herbs in Pregnancy, Herbs for an Easier Labor, Labor Induction, Natural Remedies for Urinary Tract Infections, Group B Strep (GBS), Natural Approaches to Depression, Antidepressants in Pregnancy, 5 Safe Herbs.
Great articles on Women's Health: Yeast Infections, Bacterial Vaginosis (BV), Breast tenderness.
Lily Nichols, RDN, CDE: Great articles and podcasts on prenatal nutrition, gestational diabetes, paleo diet in pregnancy, Vitamin D and breastfeeding, starting solids in babies, and more.
Home Birth Resources
Articles:
Planned home birth presents little risk where midwifery is well-integrated (10/21)
Home Birth: Why This Doctor Would Still Choose One
I’m an OB-GYN. I’m not sure every baby needs to be born in the hospital
New Studies Confirm Safety of Home Birth With Midwives in the U.S.
Pediatrician Supports Home Birth: An Interview with Sylvia Romm, MD, MPH
Choosing Where to Give Birth (ACNM)
Study: Water births just as safe as non-water births
What If Home Birth Is Actually SAFER Than Hospital Birth?
Babies born at home have more diverse bacteria
Research Confirms That Homebirth is Safe, Costs Less
Published Studies:
Birth Outcomes for Planned Home and Licensed Freestanding Birth Center Births in Washington State (2021)
Podcasts:
Evidence Based Birth Webinar on Home Birth
Natural MD Radio: Meet The OB Speaking Out on the US Cesarean Section Rate
Natural MD Radio: Home Birth – A Family Affair
Documentaries:
Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin & the Farm Midwives
Gentle Birth Choices
Videos
The Birth Story of Nathaniel (home birth)
Saoirse Maeve (home birth)
Birth of a Deva (home birth)
Birth in the Squatting Position
Reducing fear of birth in U.S. culture: Ina May Gaskin at TEDxSacramento
6 Birth Videos I Used to Prepare My Child for His Sibling’s Entrance
Breastfeeding, Babies, & Postpartum
Kellymom.com: Go-to for breastfeeding info on: engorgement, plugged ducts and mastitis, thrush.
Real Food Postpartum Recovery Meals: 50+ Recipes & Freezer Tips
Even to the Brain: Yes, Breastmilk Stem Cells Do Transfer to Organs of Offspring
It’s science: Skin-to-skin time benefits your baby—even 20 years later
Is newborn smiling really just a reflex? Research is challenging the textbooks
Babies Who Get Cuddled More Seem to Have Their Genetics Changed For Years Afterwards