A relatively new midwife collective in Longmont has started a unique pricing model and fundraiser to help women who usually couldn’t afford their services have home births.
The Community Roots Midwife Collective — Rachel Engel, Lauri Hughes, Nichole Didelot and Lo Kawulok — launched their Generosity Campaign in November to raise money for their Birth Service Fund. The Birth Service Fund covers about two low-cost births per month in order to allow lower-income families to access their services. Anyone can donate to the and women who use the service also can pay more on the sliding pay scale for services so the midwives can help others.
Didelot said that the midwives have been amazed that women are perfectly willing to pay the higher end of the scale in order to allow others to pay the lower price.
“We’ve had two of our current clients pay above the $6,000 rate in order to pay into the fundraiser so other clients can pay at the lower end of the sliding scale and we just think that’s really remarkable that those with more resources are willing to do that,” Didelot said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
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