Now accepting
Medi-Cal members
Doula services are supportive services
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​​I am so delighted to support Merced County Medi-Cal beneficiaries
Medi-Cal Provides Doula Services
Covered doula services are available to all eligible Medi-Cal enrollees
without cost sharing, co-payments, or any additional out-of-pocket costs
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Who can access doula care?
All Medi-Cal enrollees who are pregnant or were pregnant within the past year qualify for access to full spectrum doula care. Services can be provided during pregnancy, labor and delivery, miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth and within one year of the end of the pregnancy.
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​​What your Medi-Cal benefits entitle you to
>Medi-Cal covers your birth preference planning
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>Up to 8 additional visits that can be provided in any combination of prenatal and postpartum visits
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>Birth Support when you go into labor (this applies to vaginal or cesarean births, as well as miscarriage/abortion/stillbirth support)
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>After your delivery two extended three-hour postpartum visits after the end of a pregnancy
>Up to 9 additional postpartum sessions that you can use anytime in the first year after delivery (these 9 additional do require approval from a provider)​
I am reaching out to let you know
there is a lifeline here to support you
Kristina Marguerita
CD/PCD – Birth and Postpartum Doula
Madriella Certified
EOLD - End of Life Doula Practiced INELDA Proficient
HCS – Health Care Services
NPI – National Provider Identifier 1245046598
Matrescence Doula
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Kristina Marguerita
With
A Compassionate Responder
Birthing your baby!
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Celebrating you and your family with encouragement
Doula supportive services assist the birth of family
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Rooted in our experiences with pregnancy and birth
Honest conversations about how your recovery and healing is going.
Specializing in infant death and postpartum care
Experiencing end of life and loss of birth
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The opposite of death is birth. To be alive is what we are experiencing.
How do we step into the sacred space between birth and death with grace and empathy.
Matrescence
​The Developmental Transition to Motherhood A body, mind, and hormone shift adjacent to "adolescence."