We are Oklahoma’s Holistic Midwifery Practice
Levana birth is Oklahoma’s holistic midwifery practice and wellness community providing quality and compassionate care throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum to people who desire to have a natural and undisturbed birth.
What Makes Levana Birth Different
Levana Birth offers wisdom that has been passed down through many different lineages of midwives. We deeply trust the pregnancy & birth process. Levana Birth Midwifery offers highly individualized and holistic care for those desiring a peaceful out-of-hospital birth.
Individualized, Relational, Whole Person Care
- One midwife for all of your appointments and for all communication during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum (with an assisting midwife at the birth).
- Hour long appointment times.
- Individual recommendations based on your body and your experience.
- Herbal remedies, nutrition and lifestyle changes, homeopathic, and other natural modalities are always our first line of defense.
- Birth in your safest place-home.
Extended Postpartum Care
- Postpartum visits at 24-48 hours, 2 weeks, 6 weeks, 12 weeks, and 6 months.
- Following you through the 4th trimester and beyond because postpartum is forever!
- Individual herbal recommendations for postpartum mood support.
Meet Your Midwife
Alyssa has been in birth work since 2021 as a doula, birth photographer, and now midwife. Her passion for birth began as a child growing up in India and Ukraine where she witnessed the various cultures’ philosophies surrounding birth. After attending her first birth, her calling to serve women was solidified even further and it has been her driving force for becoming a Certified Professional Midwife. She has had the opportunity to learn the art of birth from many midwives and several obstetricians. Alyssa also has a bachelor’s degree from Oral Roberts University in Biblical Literature with a concentration in the Old Testament, which she tied into midwifery by writing her thesis on the midwives in Exodus.
Alyssa is a child of a deaf adult so is fluent in ASL as well as Ukrainian and Russian. Alyssa loves spending her time rock climbing, hanging out at coffee shops, reading, playing volleyball, and decorating cakes. She is probably the “crunchiest” person you’ll meet and enjoys learning about holistic health and homeopathic medicine.
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
- Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) through the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM), 2024.
- Licensed Midwife, (LM) Oklahoma, 2024.
- Neonatal Resuscitation program, 2022.
- Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers (CPR), 2022.
- Certified Nurse Assistant, 2022.
- B.A. in Biblical Literature: Old Testament from Oral Roberts University, 2021.
- Certified Doula, 2021.
“Deep within every woman is the ability to birth. When she has confidence in her own abilities, the encouragement and freedom to tap into her innate wisdom, and has the loving support of family, friends and professionals who believe this too, she will truly have a satisfying birth experience.”
Our Birth Philosophy
We believe in normal, physiological birth and deeply trust your body’s innate wisdom and ability to give birth.
Education
We believe in providing the education needed to make autonomous and empowered decisions regarding your births and families. True informed consent begins with knowing all of the benefits, risks, and alternatives to every procedure and intervention. We will give you the resources to make the decisions best for you and your family.
Safety
We believe in being a safe place to process fears, joys, traumas, excitement, worries, and all of the feelings that come with growing families. We work diligently to ensure the safety of you and your baby throughout pregnancy and birth. While we trust birth, we are equipped for when something veers off of the path of normal.
Relationship
We believe in fostering clear communication that leads to a trusting relationship between you and your midwife which aids in shared decision making. Knowing the person who will be with you in the sacred birth space helps keep that space safe and intimate. Deep trust helps makes home birth safe.
Advocacy
We believe in fiercely advocating for your desires for your birth whether that birth takes place at home, at a birth center, or in the hospital. You are the decision maker for yourself, your baby, and your family as a whole. We will always support you in making those decisions and echo anything you say to others.
Peace
We believe in helping you create a deeply peaceful pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience by truly listening to you and your experience. Pregnancy, labor, and birth provides us with a unique opportunity to learn about ourselves, heal, and give birth to a new and better version of ourselves. We will create a calm and peaceful environment which fosters physiologic birth.
Natural Remedies
We believe in honoring the wisdom of the ancient art of midwifery care while blending it with evidence-based practices of today. While there is a time and a place for allopathic medicine, we strongly encourage nutrition and movement, herbs, homeopathic remedies, chiropractic care, and more as first lines of defense. While we carry meds for birth, we will always use natural remedies first.
Services + Packages
Our midwifery packages includes all prenatal visits, two midwives at your labor & birth, and 12 weeks of postpartum care.
Holistic Midwifery Package
$4,900
Includes all prenatal care, labor and birth, postpartum and newborn care
Includes tub for waterbirth, set up, and take down
Includes fee for the second midwife at the birth
Flexible payment options, $300 discount available, payment in full due by 36 weeks, $500 due at first visit, applied to package
Levana Midwifery + Memory Package
$5,950
In addition to the Holistic midwifery package:
Includes maternity shoot, birth photography, and a fresh 48 newborn shoot
Flexible payment options, $300 discount available, payment in full due by 36 weeks, $500 due at first visit, applied to package
Cash Lab Package + Additional Fees
$300
Labs include a full prenatal panel, STI testing, hemoglobin A1C, urine culture, vitamin D, glucose screening, a mid-pregnancy iron panel, and group B strep test.
Additional fees apply if more testing is needed. Insurance may be billed for labs instead of using the cash option.
Birth Kit (purchased here) https://www.inhishands.com/levana-birth-custom-birth-kit/
Waterbirth supplies may be ordered with the birth kit (listed under optional items) if desired. We also offer birth pool rentals for families in Tulsa planning to use water during labor.
Ultrasounds are not included in lab package, cash price is typically $160. These can be billed to insurance as well. Rhogam is an additional fee if needed.
There is a $150 travel fee for those 30-45 minutes from Tulsa, and a $300 travel fee for those 1 hour+ from Tulsa. (34 week home visits for families within 30 minutes of Tulsa)
FAQs
What is a midwife?
The Certified Professional Midwife and Licensed Midwife is licensed through the State Medical Board and is a professional health practitioner who offers primary care to healthy women and their normal unborn and newborn babies throughout normal pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum, the neonatal and interconceptional periods. Certified Professional Midwives have several years of education and training in the home birth setting. Furthermore, throughout history midwives have always been used for low risk women. Midwives provide loving care and deep relationships are developed with the families we care for.
What do you bring to a birth?
We have strict protocols and practice guidelines that reflect Oklahoma laws. We bring supplies for monitoring maternal vitals and fetal heart tones, herbs, 3 different medications for postpartum hemorrhage, resuscitation equipment, IV supplies, antibiotics, and supplies for suturing (including numbing medication) to name a few. We have requirements to recertify every two years in CPR and neonatal resuscitation. We also bring a birth pool if the client desires water birth.
What happens if I risk out of care or have to transfer in labor?
Most homebirth midwives transport rates to the hospital typically range between 3%-8% on any given year. With a cesarean rate that typically stays between 3%-6% and an emergency transport rate under 1%. In the event of a prenatal transfer, we will assist with the transfer of care to a trusted OB and offer labor support in a doula role. In the event of a labor transfer, we will have already established your nearest hospital and your prefered hospital, and accompany you there to whichever one is needed. We will fax your records, call ahead to the hospital to give report so that they know exactly who we are and why we are coming to them, and will stay with you for the remainder of the birth.
Are home-births safe?
Yes! For low-risk, healthy women home births are a safe option! Home Births lead to less interventions, increased breastfeeding initiation, and increased postpartum health. ACOG (American College of Gynecologists) states “Recent studies have found that when compared with planned hospital births, planned home births are associated with fewer maternal interventions, including labor induction or augmentation, regional analgesia, electronic fetal heart rate monitoring, episiotomy, operative vaginal delivery, and cesarean delivery. Planned home births also are associated with fewer vaginal, perineal, and third-degree or fourth-degree lacerations and less maternal infectious morbidity.” the remainder of the birth!
Do you accept insurance?
Most Midwives do not take insurance but will provide you with a superbill to submit to your insurance to get reimbursed following the birth.
Get Started With Levana Birth
1. Book a free virtual consultation to meet with a midwife.
2. Access your chart and fill out your intake form.
3. Book your initial appointment to begin care!