At Open Door Midwifery, our care is based on a respect for pregnancy as a state of health and childbirth as a normal physiologic process as well as a profound and empowering event in a woman's life. The maintenance and promotion of health throughout the childbearing cycle is central to midwifery care and we focus on preventive care and the appropriate use of technology. Our care is continuous, personalized and non-authoritarian and responds to your social, emotional and cultural, as well as physical needs. Fundamental to midwifery care is the understanding that a woman's caregivers respect and support her so that she may give birth safely, with power and dignity.