Jennifer Oquendo, LM, CPM
VerifiedLicensed Midwife
18+
Years Experience
5.0
1 Reviews
My Philosophy
Care centers on the individual's needs, intuition, and decision-making. Labor and birth proceed easiest when you feel safe, undisturbed, and uninhibited. We provide unobtrusive monitoring to maintain safety while offering 24/7 midwife availability for postpartum support and home visits during the babymoon period. Our holistic, collaborative model ensures clients partner with their support teams for guidance through a healthy pregnancy, birth, and postpartum as well as life-long wellness.
About
Childbirth educator and doula in San Luis Obispo County since 2008. Care centers on the individual's needs, intuition, and decision-making. Labor and birth proceed easiest when you feel safe, undisturbed, and uninhibited.
Specialties
Approach
Languages
Welcoming All Families
Welcoming all ages, abilities, races, ethnicities, gender identities, faiths, and socioeconomic statuses.
Services Offered
Home Birth
Individualized prenatal care at home, labor and birth attendance by a California licensed midwife, and postpartum visits for 6-8 weeks.
- •Nutritional counseling
- •Standard lab work and ultrasounds
- •Newborn screening
- •Breastfeeding support
- •Well baby care for first 6 weeks
- •Birth certificate and Social Security assistance
- •Insurance billing available
Water Birth
Use of an Aquadoula tub for labor or birth. Warm water can increase relaxation in labor and allows for a gentle transition for the newborn.
- •Reduces pharmaceutical pain relief needs
- •Increases birthing experience satisfaction
- •Gentle transition for newborn
VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean)
Home birth option for those with prior cesarean delivery. Includes prenatal support and HBAC preparation with assessment of birthing history and low-risk status monitoring throughout pregnancy.
- •Assessment of birthing history
- •Low-risk status monitoring throughout pregnancy
- •HBAC preparation and support
Annual Exams
Hour-long wellness appointments covering nutrition, stress, and physical health.
- •Full physical exam
- •Breast exam
- •Pelvic exam with pap test
- •Lab work
- •STI testing
- •Supplementation recommendations
- •Insurance billing available
Preconception Counseling
Review of nutrition, diet, exercise, and bloodwork labs. Reproductive history discussion and conception optimization guidance.
- •Nutrition and diet review
- •Exercise guidance
- •Bloodwork labs
- •Reproductive history discussion
- •Conception optimization
- •IUI offered as on-call service
Who I Serve
I have specialized experience working with:
Education & Credentials
License
LM
Certifications
Licensed Midwife (LM)
California Medical Board
Certified Professional Midwife (CPM)
North American Registry of Midwives (NARM)
Education
Midwifery Studies
National Midwifery Institute
Clinical Midwifery Training
Apprenticeship with Edana Hall, LM
Functional & Integrative Medicine
Aviva Romm's Women's Functional and Integrative Medicine Professional Training Program
2020
Recent Training
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Practice
Manzanita Midwifery
Owner
Service Area
San Luis Obispo County and Central Coast
Location
CA