Health at Every Size® Healthcare Provider Listing
Corinne Westing, CNM, APRN-FPA
(they/them)
Certified Nurse Midwife
Birth Roots Community Midwifery
Warrenville,
Illinois,
United States
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Special Instructions: The midwife is available 24/7 to current clients for urgent needs (including for birth) and otherwise available during business hours Monday through Friday. Care for well person/reproductive healthcare and family building may be available by telehealth, and care may be initiated as soon as the Informed Consent and Financial Agreements are signed. Office hours are generally on Thursdays, and sometimes Wednesdays. We offer a Verification of Benefits through a professional biller for those who wish to verify out of network coverage or apply for a gap exemption/PPO waiver.
Additional information about where I can practice: We provide office visits at our location in Warrenville, and we serve clients for home birth and in-home IUI within a one-hour radius of the midwife's home in Oak Park. We also offer concierge services for clients in communities immediately bordering Oak Park.
Specialties & Areas of Focus:
- home birth
- mental health
- transgender health
- reproductive health
- family planning
- fertility care
- family building - including in-home IUI
- basic primary care
Modalities & Theoretical Lenses:
- holistic midwifery
- intersectional feminism
- evidence-based
- trauma-informed
- client-led
Age Groups Served:
- Teens (13-18 years old)
- Adults (18 years old and up)
- Teens (13-18 years old)
- Adults (18 years old and up)
Additional Populations Served & Allied Groups:
- LGBTIA+
- transgender
- kink
- polyamory
- nonbinary
- BIPOC
- immigrant & refugee
- solo parents
- blended families
Languages Services Offered In:
- Spanish
- Spanish
My Philosophy of Care
When given the immense honor of caring for clients, I bring my best self in order to meet my clients where they are at to help them reach their goals for health, wellness, family building, family planning, and home birth. I use a trauma-informed, body-positive, neurodivergent-affirming approach to blend holistic and evidence-based care. The client is the center of care, where I bring my resources, experience, and knowledge to be a support and guide as needed.
I use informed consent and refusal for any discussion or use of body size/weight assessments and nutrition during care, where I make available any information -- benefits, risks, and alternatives -- that may help someone choose whether or not to have their weight checked or documented at any stage of care, especially in the context of pregnancy. We have no cut-off for body size for midwifery birth care, and we celebrate all birthing bodies. We work with our clients when they want to work on intuitive eating or joyful body movement, and refer exclusively to HAES® nutritionists and other resources.
About Me & My Practice
I started Birth Roots Community Midwifery in 2023 with my dear friend and fellow birth worker/doula/childbirth educator Coté Saéz Garceu, in order to bring a loving, individualized care model that could focus on physiologic birth, honoring the postpartum, and holistic support for all kinds of clients seeking midwifery care, from reproductive health to basic primary care to home birth. As an explicitly inclusive practice focused on birth equity, Birth Roots has become singular in the Chicago area for supporting queer and trans pregnancy and birth; Health at Every Size® (HAES®); and solo parents.
My journey to embracing HAES® started a few years into my professional midwifery practice, when a friend lovingly called me out for repeating on social media something I had learned at a professional conference that was harmful to fat people. This led me to learning from the fat liberation movement, which opened my eyes to not only the lies I had been sold in my nursing and midwifery education (including my continuing education) but to the harms I had caused to clients in larger bodies up to that point.
Since then, I have continuously worked to listen to the communities that have advocated for HAES®, and I have adjusted my midwifery practice to reflect my commitment to HAES®.
Accessibility Considerations
Our office is currently not wheelchair accessible, though we are working to get a location that will be accessible. Our seating has no weight limit. As a solo practice midwife, I interact and do all the support services personally, while my business partner and our practice Birth Mentor is also committed to HAES®.
We have educational materials available in various formats in order to meet clients' varied learning styles.
Our EMR asks all clients to disclose their pronouns and those of their partner(s). Clients have access to all of their medical records as part of the practice's commitment to decolonizing healthcare, including an extensive list of any abbreviations used in their medical records.