
(847) 903-5383
Midwifery Care
At Partería 7 Generations Midwifery, we offer personalized, compassionate prenatal care for families planning to birth at home and those choosing other birthing spaces. Our care supports the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of each client, fostering informed decision-making, trust in the body, and a deeper connection to the birth process. Through holistic support and culturally centered guidance, we nurture empowered and grounded pregnancy experiences—wherever your birth takes place.

Home Birth Care
Prenatal Care:
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Our care schedule includes monthly visits until 28 weeks, bi-monthly visits until 36 weeks, and weekly visits until your due date, with bi-weekly visits for postdate pregnancies.
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Your initial visit includes a comprehensive medical history review, physical examination, and lab work as needed.
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For you, we offer assessments that include vital signs, screenings, nutritional counseling, and preventative care.
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For your baby, we monitor fetal heart tones, assess fetal growth and position, and check amniotic fluid levels through gentle belly checks.
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We provide holistic education, emotional support, and self-care practices throughout your pregnancy, empowering you to make informed decisions.
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Referrals to other appropriate providers are also available to ensure you have all the resources you need.
Labor and Birth Support:
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From 37 weeks onward, we are on-call for you 24/7
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We will provide phone access during early labor
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When labor becomes active, we will join you at home, providing physical, emotional, and spiritual support.
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A certified birth assistants (NRP certified) will be assist me at all times.
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We will ensuring your safety with non-disruptive, intermittent maternal and fetal monitoring.
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We will we encouraged to follow your intuitive birthing instincts, when needed and desire guidance will be provided.
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We can provide an inflatable birth pool (additional charge).
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Emergency medications and equipment are always on-site.
Immediate Postpartum Care:
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We will honor the safe and non-disruptive birth of your placenta.
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We will provide a thorough vaginal exam, providing repairs if necessary.
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We will honor your Golden Hour with immediate skin-to-skin contact, delayed cord clamping, and support for breastfeeding initiation and lactation.
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Following the Golden Hour we will perform a thorough newborn exam with routine newborn medications available if desired.
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Our birth team will stay for a minimum of three hours postpartum to ensure your well-being, and providing postpartum care instructions
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We will clean up the birth site, leaving no mess behind.
Postpartum Care
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Our ongoing postpartum care continues with both in-person and virtual clinical health assessments for you and your baby at 24-48 hours, week 1, week 2, week 4, week 6, month 3, month 6, one year.

Upcoming Home Birth Availability
Now booking home birth care for the following dates:
October: 2 openings
November: 1 opening
December: 2 openings
If you are planning a home birth and are seeking personalized midwifery care, I welcome the opportunity to connect. Please reach out to schedule a consultation or to learn more about how we might work together.

I walk with beauty before me, I walk with beauty behind me
I walk with beauty above me, I walk with beauty below me,
I walk with beauty around me ,We are a circle within a circle,
We have no beginning, we have no ending

Juanita Montoya - Partera, CPM, LMT, SpBPE, SpBAP
Evanston, Chicago & surrounding areas
(847) 903-5383


