How can clients contact the midwife for questions or problems outside of regular appointments?
I am on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I have a pager and home and office telephones with answering machines. If you need to contact me, I ask that you first try to reach me at home. If I am not there, then I ask that you leave a message on the answering machine with your phone number and then page me. If I have not answered the page within 15 or 20 minutes, page me again. (The Hill Country is filled with dips where signals do not always transmit.) I encourage clients to contact me this way with questions or problems; don’t hesitate to call. Do not leave an important message on the answering machine at the office, because it can sometimes be days before I am able to check that machine, since I am not in the office every day.
