Abigail Lanin Eaves, CNM
Dar a Luz Birth & Health Center is a non-profit, freestanding, nationally accredited and state license birth center in the heart of Albuquerque, NM. We offer gynecological services as well as prenatal care, birth, postpartum and newborn services to low-risk pregnant people in ABQ and the surrounding communities. We accept all private insurance, TriCare and Medicaid MCOs for our birth center services.
Postpartum is a unique and delicate time that can be incredibly difficult to navigate, especially when depression and/or anxiety are present. Our clients have 24/7 access to our certified nurse-midwives even after they birth but if they are having an acute mental health crisis, there is little that we can do. We have full prescriptive authority in New Mexico and we feel we can meet a need to serve this community better. We feel strongly that with support from our mental health partners, we can offer ketamine-assisted therapy with basic integration while they continue to see and integrate with their own therapists. We are in the position to offer this therapy in a safe and calm environment, and with providers that our clients are already familiar with. Because of the relationships that we have already formed with our clients, we feel that many who are seeking this therapy would do so with us.
Birth work is maybe some of the most sacred work out there! How we come into this world matters! We believe in guiding pregnant people and their families into the safest space of birthing their baby. Physiologic birth is designed to happen and we are there to witness it and step in when intervention is necessary. If we treated all birth as sacred, rather than a business model, imagine how our communities would thrive and take care of each other. We believe that communities are stronger when families have the option to bring their babies into this world gently and compassionately. When women and birthing people have the option to choose how to birth their babies, they can’t help but to connect to their sense of self, to their community (which is so important in birth and beyond), to nature and to spirit– their own, their partner’s and their baby’s.