I found Pineapple Babies through my doula, who recommended them as one of the few midwife practices…read morein the area that accepts TRICARE. I initially reached out because I wanted to understand my options, but I honestly did not think I would be eligible for a home birth due to age and gestational diabetes. From my very first conversation with Amy, I felt completely confident in moving forward. She was very responsive, listened to my concerns, answer all of my questions, and walk me through the entire process. She also addressed concerns I had after reading some negative information online before I made a final decision, which quickly helped ease my fears. Her openness, honesty, and willingness to have straightforward conversations gave me the confidence to move forward. This was my third baby and my first home birth. My previous two births were hospital births at Chesapeake Regional and Portsmouth Naval Hospital. While I am grateful for the care I received, there were many aspects of the hospital environment that were difficult for me, including constant interruptions, bright lights, lack of rest, and feeling like the experience was more focused on the process than allowing my babies and me to have a gentler transition. My experience with Pineapple Babies was completely different. My baby stayed with me the entire time after birth, and we were able to rest together for nearly two days afterward, waking only to nurse and eat. It was such a peaceful and special experience that I wish every family could have the opportunity to experience. The prenatal and postpartum care was also wonderful. Appointments felt personal and relaxed rather than rushed, and everyone was always available to answer questions and provide support. After experiencing an unexpected 12 days of exhausting prelabor with contractions starting and stopping, Amy and Gennette helped reassure me and keep me calm. When I passed my due date and became very concerned, Amy responded quickly and helped put my mind at ease. During one of my prenatal visits Gennette also helped me address a low iron level through a referral that made a significant improvement, which my previous OBGYNs ignored. When my water broke shortly after 3am, everything progressed much faster than expected. Amy answered immediately and stayed on the phone with my husband and me, recognizing that things were moving quickly when I actually thought I had more time. She was in her vehicle within 5 mins and rushed to my house arriving quickly as I already was going into active labor and preparing us while she was racing to our house. Her experience helped me through an intense and fast labor. Her team members arrived shortly before the birth. Everyone worked together seamlessly with my doula and provided incredible care. They stayed afterward to make sure my baby and I were doing well and had everything we needed before leaving. I am so grateful that I chose Pineapple Babies and that I now have the memory of welcoming my daughter into our home. It was an incredibly meaningful experience for our family and I would absolutely recommend Amy and her team to anyone considering midwifery care or home birth. One small area for improvement would be the scheduling. At times, making changes or viewing updated appointments was a little challenging, and I occasionally noticed changes without notification only after receiving reminders or logging in. However, this was minor compared with the exceptional care and support I received throughout my pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience.

This was the worst most cringe experience I have ever had with any midwife and I have been to…read moreseveral. At the front desk, they are sane and kind, but it's all downhill from there. The midwife walks around barefoot and recommends that pregnant women drink gallons and gallons of unpasteurized cows milk which everybody know is clinically dangerous. It can lead to serious foodborne illnesses due to dangerous bacteria, including Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria, and Campylobacter. Bird flu can even lurk in it. This midwife seemed not care about pregnant people's personal privacy and lets her student-midwives cross examine you like detectives whether you like it or not you're stuck. This midwife treated me in a condescending manner and was very dismissive of my input. I have met narcissists who have behaved similarly in the past. After the experience I was shocked, appalled, disappointed, confused, and completely felt bamboozled. All in all I would say if you care about your life, STEER VERY CLEAR of this place.

If you believe breastfeeding is important, do yourself a favor, seek guidance and support. There's…read morealways something to learn. Becki provided our family with a knowledgeable, friendly and caring consultation.

Stacy was wonderful and I am so thankful for her help with my fertility journey. The staff was kind…read moreand professional, would 10/10 recommend.

We used their services, fine transaction completed. We completed our last session closed out…read moreremaining debt. Mysteriously get a bill for something years earlier & now they are dragging their feet administratively when allowing us to submit paperwork to close service. "we didn't receive the paperwork", excuse. Seen this before, they billed our CC after they said they received our request to cancel service and would send us a refund check. Never received check. Called bank reporting suspicious billing behavior. Bank agreed, now just received another bill. Do not trust this vendor. Report fraud if you experience it with this vendor. My family frien and wife used their service last year and terminated it after they experienced similar behavior. Protect yourself!

My child has been seeing Miss Sharon for years, it has been a great experience for her. Very open…read morewith communication and is there for us when we need her in the moment. Highly recommend.

She has changed my life and helped me to practice better self care and heal from past trauma.read more

She is great. She brought our baby girl into this world by c-section. She did an amazing job…read moredespite the baby having trouble coming down the birth canal. New doctor to the location, Capital Women's Care in Fulton and I'm happy she delivered our child.

The midwives at Womancare center took amazing care of me and my unborn child throughout my entire…read morepregnancy. They care for the entire person, not just focused on the pregnancy but the emotional and mental well being of mother to be. I am absolutely thrilled with the care I receive there and continue to receive there. I know if I ever find myself expecting another child I will already know where to go.

Aveanna Healthcare, LLC offers home health services across the U.S. and has 7 locations in…read moreVirginia, with the local ones being those in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, and Hampton. Their Virginia Beach location offers clinic-based and home-based services through contracted, home-based Early Intervention (EI) services in partnership with local cities' Infant & Toddler Connection of Virginia programs. -- TLDR -- The rating is an average of unacceptable admin services and excellent therapist services for a 2.5* rounding up. -- Services -- At this location, Aveanna provides pediatric services to include occupational, speech, and physical therapies. Aveanna has a team of hundreds of therapists who provide clinic-based outpatient and/or home-based Early Intervention (EI) services (specifically for children under 3), which is a parent-coaching model. -- Therapists -- Our experiences has been with the Early Intervention (EI) providers. They make a point to check-in at each session about how the child has been doing, what's working/not as far as the interventions, and model interventions based on what the family identifies as the main priority (which fits in with the overall service plan made with the family). The therapists also ask about other therapies that the child is receiving and generally try to compliment those. Sessions end with what with the parents would like to work on until the next session. The success of this model is really dependent on the parents carrying it out, but it also can be the most effective when therapies are incorporated throughout the day and week and not just for a session or two per week (like clinic-based appointments). I found their pediatric speech therapeutic services to be excellent and would highly recommend them! Their SLP was essential in helping us learn child-led strategies that reflected the approaches of Laura Mize. The SLP provided lots of individualized strategies that helped us build up imitation (gestures, sounds) to eventually build to speech. -- Office Admin -- Working with Aveanna's admin staff was a terrible experience. After following up over the course of a month which culminated in me having to call and speak to 5 different people in the same day, by the end of it, they still were unable to correctly account for what was going on. The staff did not know the services they offered, but worse than just not being able to provide information, they provided lots of misinformation that conflicted with what they had provided in prior weeks. They lost my child's initial files. Their incompetence let to a month's delay in connecting my child to services. I did not follow through on their clinic-based services (which had a 9 month waitlist at the time), and thank goodness, because they also provided inaccurate information regarding their services in relation to my insurance. -- Insurance Know-How -- Thankfully other providers are well-versed in insurance and what options were available to us, because this office not only delayed our ability to connect to services because they literally did not understand their own services they offered. In case it's helpful, if you likewise want to line up clinic and home-based early intervention (EI) services for speech, you either need EI to not bill your insurance or you need to use Aveanna as your clinic and EI service provider. Also note that if your child is under 3 and you have Optima, your only choices for clinic-based OT are Sentara or CHKD (not Aveanna). We were linked with Aveanna for EI services, which is the only form in which I would recommend working with them. -- Assessments -- Because we are using their EI services, the Infant & Toddler Connection of Virginia program for our city arranges assessments and service coordination. If you go to Aveanna for clinic-based services, Aveanna would do initial assessments and goal setting with you. As mentioned above, I started this process with Aveanna and their clinic lost the information. -- Scheduling -- Since we are using their EI services, we schedule directly with each therapist for the next month's session dates. Therapists have always been prompt and keep their scheduled times. If you go to Aveanna for clinic-based services, Aveanna admin staff would work with you. -- Environment -- If you do home-based services, it helps to have a calm, quiet place to give updates, get info about techniques, and get the most out of the therapies. -- Conclusions -- Ultimately our particular therapist was a good fit for us using the Early Intervention home-based service model. Thankfully we have a service coordinator through Infant & Toddler. I was told by Infant & Toddler that Aveanna is their largest contractor employing pediatric therapists, so they often have someone to staff your child's case first and are able to accommodate the referrals. It's worth working with Infant & Toddler to contract a therapist there, but not directly.

This is by far the best disability thing I've been to I'm 100% permanent but I wanted to add on…read moreburn bits little sick PTSD TBI In these docs was very patient with me. Secretary of a sweetheart gave us free one this place is going to help us vets thank you for all your help. BM1 USN Retired.

Ms Collier is wonderful! She "caught" my son and if I have more children, I will hopefully have…read moreher by my side again. She also provides regular ob/gyn services. Very friendly & informative. Spends plenty of time answering questions & addressing concerns.