Collaborative care for one purpose: your safest, most supported birth
Our model - midwife led, doctor supported
We offer collaborative pregnancy care between doctors and midwives for low to moderate risk patients. We honor physiologic birth while prioritizing safety. Those that need extra services, Dr. Wilder has connections to other family medicine obstetricians and OBGYNs so you and your baby have the care you need.
Our goal is for you to have a familiar face throughout your pregnancy and at delivery. We welcome your support partner and doula if you choose to use one.
Pregnancy care pricing
Prices below are cash pay in planned installments. Itemized receipts are available to submit for insurance reimbursement, and we accept FSA/HSA cards. We will add a list of insurances accepted as they become available. Lab and imaging test costs are separate.
- Prenatal and postpartum care only with delivery elsewhere$2500
Confirmation of pregnancy visit $100 (applied to total cost) with lab work currently done at an outside lab (whichever your insurance prefers - or at a self-pay rate). Depending on your baby's age, we may be able to use small ultrasounds to view your baby! We work together through your expected 14 prenatal and 4 postpartum visits. We offer in-home newborn weight checks at the traditional 2 day and 2 weeks old to make life a little easier while you transition with your new baby.
- Total care with planned vaginal delivery at Memorial Hospital$4000
Same as above with pre-registration with the hospital, labor and delivery walk through and meet and greet with our hospital colleagues! Why Memorial? Their parent company, HCA, supports and has experience with midwifery care. No other hospital in Savannah has midwifery care. It is also affiliated with the only high-risk OB team and the highest level NICU | Memorial Health Dwaine & Cynthia Willett Children’s Hospital of Savannah in Savannah in case your baby needs help.
Heritage Family Health offers a sliding-scale fee program to ensure access to care for all patients, regardless of income or insurance status. Discounts are based on household income and family size. Please contact us with questions about cost.
The reality of pregnancy care in Georgia
Having a baby in Georgia can be harder and riskier than it should be. Our state has one of the highest maternal and baby death rates in the country. 42% of counties have no access to doctors or midwives that have pregnancy care. Out of hospital births have increased in recent years. Some are unplanned as parents are driving the far distances to the hospital. Others have turned to delivering in the comfort of their own home with more control of their delivery experience. This may unnecessarily increase the risk of delaying lifesaving emergency care - even in the lowest risk pregnancies.
About 1 in 5 adults in Georgia struggles to understand health information, which makes it harder to understand medical risks or know when to seek help. At the same time, conditions like obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes are showing up earlier in life, even in young adults. These conditions make pregnancy more complicated and raise the chances of problems like preterm birth or preeclampsia.
We believe birth shouldn't be about choosing sides — it's about bringing everyone together. By connecting the wisdom of community birth with the resources of hospital care, we're helping families feel safe, supported, and respected wherever they give birth.
What to expect
Less than 8 weeks
Come confirm your pregnancy! Generally able to see you before traditional OBGYN offices. We want to support you during those early pregnancy symptoms and discuss the overall course of your pregnancy.
12 weeks
Complete lab work if not done earlier. Best time for the blood test for Down syndrome risk and fetal sex. Likely able to hear baby's heartbeat.
16 weeks
Discuss feeling your baby move and check lab work for spinal cord problems.
20 weeks
Arrange your anatomy scan to look at all of baby's body to make sure they are growing well.
24 weeks
Blood pressure checks are more important after this milestone! Review and plan for the pregnancy diabetes test. We offer the jellybean protocol! Why is this important?
28 weeks
Arrange for Tdap booster so your body will give powerful antibodies against life threatening whooping cough to your baby.
30 weeks
Discuss possible delivery emergency situations so you're well informed while everything is calm.
32 weeks
Start birth planning! Review early labor warning signs.
34 weeks
Finalize birth plan. Review reasons to come to the hospital.
36 weeks
Choose your baby's doctor if you haven't already. We'd be honored to see your baby grow with us and we also have lots of baby doctor friends!
37 weeks
Check baby's position with ultrasound. Discuss birth control options.
38 weeks
Review labor signs and pain management plan.
39 weeks
Check your cervix for softening and dilation if you'd like.
40 weeks
Arrange for baby's non-stress test this week. Discuss possible induction of labor plan.
Delivery
We have a birthday party! Then we see your baby in the hospital at Memorial Hospital. We currently hope to have you baby discharged at 24 hours if everything is absolutely normal. We may need to stay a little longer if baby needs a little extra care or we can't plan for the newborn weight check at the right time.
2-3 days old
Newborn weight check at home. Review breast/chestfeeding now that baby is here if desired.
2 weeks old
Newborn weight check to make sure we're over our birth weight and feeding well. Check in for mom to make sure we're adjusted ok.