Pregnancy & Birth Services
As a full spectrum birthworker, Tessa meets with individuals and families during their pregnancy to support them in whatever ways they need. Tessa provides gender affirming, non-judgmental care with a focus on supporting the embodiment, empowerment and autonomy of each client. Tessa can recommend herbs and nutrition, tools and practices for self care, and provide fertility and birth education and preparation, conception care and pregnancy and birth support.
Tessa is honored to support birthing people and families in ways that meet their unique needs and desires. Please contact Tessa with any questions regarding services, packages, etc.
Complete Birth Package
Sliding scale: $800 - $1600
Tessa meets with you for three prenatal visits, talking with you about what most matters to you about birth and parenting, preparing for labor, birth and postpartum experiences. Tessa can recommends herbs, lifestyle choices, rituals, etc from a place of embodiment and compassion. Tessa is on call 24/7 from 37 to 42 weeks of pregnancy. Once you go into labor, Tessa will come to you when you are ready, to provide compassionate, attuned labor and birth support (virtually, if desired). Tessa follows new families into the postpartum period with nutritional and food support, emotional processing, lactation support, light housekeeping and to share in the joyful welcoming of new life, with 2 postpartum visits.
Prenatal Package
sliding scale: $150 - $300
Appropriate for people wishing to enrich their primary pregnancy care with herbal, emotional and spiritual support. Also appropriate for families wishing for knowledgable input to help envision and plan their birth and postpartum transition. Includes three prenatal visits,
Post-Partum Package
Sliding scale: $20 - 40 hourly / 4 half-day postpartum visits $250 - $600
Support of families and individuals transitioning into life with their amazing newborn(s)! Includes lactation support, herbal and nutritional recommendations, baby and family bonding, emotional and physical care, integrating and processing experience of birth, tools for physical and emotional healing after-birth and maintaining network of postpartum care.
Birth Trauma Recovery
Some birth givers experience their births as overwhelming, traumatic or just hard to process. Using somatic tools, embodied practices and narrative medicine, Tessa supports folks to integrate their pregnancy, abortion or birth experiences through their body, heart and mind. Reach out to Tessa for more information.
Fertility & Conception Services
PREConception Care
Sliding Scale $50 - $200
Preconception counseling and first IUI $200 - $450
Fertility is considered the sixth vital force. In this preconception consultation, you’ll meet with Tessa for 1-2 hours, in which we will review your medical history, investigate and understand your cycles, and working together to create an individualized plan to optimize your fertility. Tessa provides guidance on fertile signs and support you to optimize timing for conception, including IUI timing and plan. Tessa uses herbs, nutrition, lifestyle and ritual recommendations to support clients looking to become pregnant. through nutrition, lifestyle changes, supplements and herbs. Tessa is then available for 3 months of unlimited email/phone support
Intrauterine Insemination (IUI)
Sliding Scale $150 - $250
and $75 - 150 for subsequent inseminations within the SAME cycle
Sperm Washing - $50
IUI is a safe and simple procedure that can happen at any time of day or night in the comfort of your own home.Washed sperm (fresh or frozen) is placed in the uterus to achieve pregnancy. A thin catheter (tube) is placed thru the cervix into the uterus in order to achieve insemination, with your comfort and autonomy as top priority. A preconception visit before IUI allows us to determine optimal fertility window, which ensures your cervix is soft and open for the procedure and is most optimal for pregnancy success.
Studies show that when conceiving with frozen sperm, intrauterine insemination (IUI) doubles your chances of conception. The sperm are placed directly inside the uterus, and can travel quickly to the fallopian tubes to fertilize the egg. For those who have access to fresh sperm, the sperm can be “washed” or spun in a centrifuge to prepare it.
With Tessa, at home IUIs are done with embodied consent and midwifery style care. For many of us, it is important to be as comfortable, safe and in our power as possible as we engage in the process of becoming pregnant. IUIs take place in the privacy and comfort of your home, with gentle and respectful care. This event can be whatever you’d like: romantic, silly, quiet, spiritual, celebratory, etc.