Veritas Birth
Supporting home birth in the Dayton/Cincinnati, Ohio and surrounding areas.
Veritas Birth
Supporting home birth in the Dayton/Cincinnati, Ohio and surrounding areas.
About
About
Melinda McCoy, CIM (Certified International Midwife)
I have been attending births for 24 years, 18 years as a community midwife. My desire is to serve women and families as they make the choice to birth at home. I’m a faith-based midwife, honoring Jesus as I serve each family. You can find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/truthinbirth/ Truth In Birth.
I stay current in Neonatal Resuscitation and CPR. I do continuing education each year covering various topics and the most cutting edge science concerning the MotherBaby-Family triad.
Birth matters. Women and babies all around the world need us to care about this sacred time and this issue. I support the International Childbirth Initiative. I’ll be spending some of my time each year pouring into the health and wellness of MotherBaby-Family Maternity Care. I’m currently persuing the Post-graduate Diploma in International Midwifery and Maternal/Child Health through Mercy in Action in hopes of supporting positive changes in policies and legislation globally.
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Services
Services
Home Birth
Prenatal and Postpartum Care
I do all home visits. The visits last about an hour and cover all the standard care. Relationship building is a priority so I can best support your wishes and desires for your birth. I’ll see you once a month, 35 weeks, 37 weeks then every week until you deliver. I’m on call from 37 weeks on until 6 weeks postpartum. I stay 3 hours or more after the baby’s arrival and will leave only after everyone is stable. I’ll check in on day one, will come for a visit on day 2 when we will fill out paperwork for the birth certificate and check on momma/baby, then week 2 and week 6.
If you’d like a water birth, I have several birth pools that are available for you to use.
Nutrition
This should be at the top of your list for a healthy and successful birth. We will chat about nutrition during our prenatal times. I love Lily Nichols’ books, website and videos on YouTube. https://lilynicholsrdn.com/ Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes. Check her out!
Weston A. Price and Dr. Brewer also have superb guidance for preconception, pregnancy and breastfeeding nutrition as well.
Consulting
If you don't want to home birth but would like wise woman support, we are offering that option as well. Email to get more info.
“My husband and I have 3 children, our last being a home birth with Melinda. I can not say enough good things about her! After multiple interviews with midwives, Melinda clearly stood out above the rest! She has a caring and motherly spirit that made us feel so comfortable and at home with her. During labor she was very attentive and calmed any fears I had as a first time homebirth mom. Melinda was also great at my prenatal and postpartum visits including answering any questions I had, letting my older children help, laughing and letting me cry out my fears. If we decide to have any other children I will definitely be giving Melinda a call!”
Approach
I believe in a woman's ability to birth. I support her choices and will hold space for her. I support holistic practices and ancient wisdom. I honor the Creator and His design. Labor and birth in the safe and secure environment of your home, skin to skin contact, cord left intact, no hatting of baby....this is your birth and your journey!
Approach
I believe in a woman's ability to birth. I support her choices and will hold space for her. I support holistic practices and ancient wisdom. I honor the Creator and His design. Labor and birth in the safe and secure environment of your home, skin to skin contact, cord left intact, no hatting of baby....this is your birth and your journey!
Testimonials
Testimonials
“Birth is powerful, sacred, beautiful, life-changing. Melinda was the facilitator for me to discovering just how life-changing birth can be. She is a source of comfort and peace. She empowers women to take control of their bodies and minds and accomplish amazing things! I had the experience that I had been anticipating and planned, and I know that Melinda’s support and wisdom were an immense contribution to my achievement!”
My husband and I have 3 children, our last being a home birth with Melinda. I can not say enough good things about her! After multiple interviews with midwives, Melinda clearly stood out above the rest! She has a caring and motherly spirit that made us feel so comfortable and at home with her. During labor she was very attentive and calmed any fears I had as a first time homebirth mom. Melinda was also great at my prenatal and postpartum visits - answering any questions I had, letting my older children help, laughing and letting me cry out my fears. If we decide to have any other children I will definitely be giving Melinda a call!
-Heather Bradds
“I have had one baby with Melinda and am about to have a second with her. I love having her with me through the whole experience: prenatal, birth, and postnatal. Every prenatal visit is a relaxed experience where my other children feel welcomed and included. She is very attentive and observant; I always feel like I am in capable and caring hands. During the birth itself, she was present and available when I needed her, but in no way interfered with what my body was naturally leading me to do. I had a peaceful and beautiful birth with her in the room. She was very thorough afterwards; she was so careful and conscientious in examining baby Wulffgang and me. I truly felt that we were well cared for. She also came for post natal visits and I again felt she was very observant and careful to be sure everything was going as it should go. I would recommend her to anyone hoping to have a home birth. I am so so grateful that she was recommended to me.”
Having a midwife for a mother is a unique privilege I wish more women could experience. It means you grow up thinking about birth in radically different ways than anything you see or hear. Even if you never attend a birth, the thought of birth, the act of labor, and the miraculous nature of women's bodies are ideas as common to you as house cats. It's dinner table discussion. Birth isn't weird or dangerous, it happens all the time quite peacefully in bedrooms and bathrooms and kitchens. No one is scared, no one is panicked, because no one is sick or dying. They are quite the opposite actually. Birth is the hard work of bringing forth life. It's active. It's focused. It's energy.
And when it was my turn to partake in the everyday common wonder that is birth, I knew every pain was purposeful, every fear irrational, and every instinct wholly designed. I was made for this moment. And my midwife of a mother? She was doing what she has been doing since the day I came laboriously into this world on the living room sofa: she was my gate-keeper. She held the space so that normal, healthy, heavenly designed birth could flourish safely. She made the way for me to make my way into the deep space that mother and baby meet in order to work together and birth a new world into the planet.
Midwife means "with woman." Mine happens to be my mother. I couldn't think of a more normal way to give birth than with the woman who birthed me. We did it 29 years ago for the first time, and I am sure we will do it again. And the reality is that she has been "midwife-ing" me my whole life. What a gift.
- Savannah McCoy Kilpatrick (Melinda's daughter)
