Grow your family with Rutledge Family Holistic

We are a Christian and crunchy holistic, family centered home birth midwifery care team. We provide skilled quality care for families seeking high autonomy and low intervention support during pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding. Our team includes a midwife and her husband, other midwives, student midwives, doulas, photographers, health coaches, and chiropractors.

According to the national Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM) and the Midwifery Task Force, “The Midwives Model of Care is based on the fact that pregnancy and birth are normal life processes. The midwives model of care includes:

• Monitoring the physical, psychological and social well-being of the mother throughout the childbearing cycle
• Providing the mother with individualized education, counseling and prenatal care, continuous hands on assistance during labor and delivery, and postpartum support
• Minimizing technological interventions
• Identifying and referring women who require obstetrical attention

The application of this woman-centered model of care has been proven to reduce the incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section.”

We believe authority, belongs to the mother. Mothers in our care, maintain their autonomy by educating themselves on optimal health and nutrition in pregnancy, testing choices, labor and delivery options, breastfeeding, and restorative postpartum care. Our recommendations include physiological birth education, nutrition for health, supplementation as needed and movement in pregnancy. We also desire clients to have chiropractic care throughout pregnancy, possibly while in labor and beyond into postpartum and for breastfeeding.

• Every four weeks until 28 weeks
• Every two weeks from 28 weeks until 36 weeks
• Weekly from 36 weeks until 40 weeks or until birth
• Weekly or more often as needed from 40 weeks until birth
• Care during labor, delivery & the immediate postpartum period
• Postpartum visits in your home at 1-2 days postpartum & 1-2 weeks postpartum
• Postpartum visits in office at 3-4 weeks postpartum & at 5-6 weeks postpartum 
• More visits may be added postpartum as needed
• Continued care and support for breast-feeding from six weeks as long as necessary

• Prenatal visits
• Standard labs in first trimester, blood test for gender as early as 6 weeks of pregnancy if desired, glucose screening at 24-28 weeks, standard labs in third trimester, newborn blood typing if indicated
• Birth supplies including pool if desired
• Labor & delivery care & support
• Assistant at birth
• Photographer at birth for first 6 local clients
• Placenta encapsulation if desired
• Postpartum visits
• Newborn metabolic screening
• Continued breastfeeding support

• Rhogam shots if desired (for Rh - mothers)
• Ultrasounds or other similar diagnostic testing
• Genetic testing
• Massage, Chiropractic or other supportive care
• Supplements
• Doula but discounts may be offered for hiring a preferred doula

We offer holistic & family centered care. We prioritize autonomy. We are a husband & wife team utilizing other care providers as needed! 

RFH is a good fit for self-motivated health conscious families that desire to learn & grow and have the ability to obtain supplements and chiropractic care as recommended to maintain a normal healthy pregnancy.

Our care package has a current total investment of $7500 with expected increases in 2025 and 2026. Discounts may be offered for those that are able to pay in full at the first visit, and others should expect to make regular automatic payments until fully paid by 34 weeks of pregnancy.

The state of Texas has requirements that include testing for things, such as syphilis and HIV. Typical care involves bloodwork in the first trimester, optional genetic testing, optional blood test for gender, optional further testing for Rh, compatibility, anatomy, scan, gestational, diabetes, testing via several options, repeat bloodwork and Group B strep testing in the third trimester, CCHD screening & newborn, metabolic screening.