Attended a beautiful homebirth yesterday morning. Mama made it look rather easy as she pushed a 9 lb. baby into the birth pool; exhilarating for her and her family to experience a homebirth after a previous preterm hospital birth a few years ago. Not only was the locale different, but the entire experience! [...]
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
There is some sort of saying among midwives; “there is a midwife for every woman, and a woman for every midwife.” It wasn’t until this week that I realized what it feels like to NOT be the midwife a woman needs. To be the one to say to the woman, “I am not [...]
Sunday, March 7, 2010
This week, one of the births I attended was a mama’s second baby; the first had been born in a hospital two years ago, and this one, obviously at home. I love all my clients, but I always feel even more overjoyed for the parents that get to experience this vast difference in birthing [...]
Sunday, February 21, 2010
I am about 27 weeks pregnant with my fifth baby (who momentarily has the hiccups!) and my husband and I are going to attend a 5 week Hypnobirthing series. I thought I would blog about it in advance, because as a midwife, I’m not really sure what I think about the whole thing. [...]
Saturday, February 13, 2010
In blog posts, videos and everyday conversation, I am often comparing the two seemingly opposite worlds of “medical/hospital birth” and “holistic/midwifery care/homebirth”. I have been focusing, as you may know, on the differences in actual healthcare between the two, as well as reasons to consider one or the other. There is one huge, underlying point [...]
Saturday, January 30, 2010
This week I am in Chesapeake, Virginia, with my sister, at her home–along with her husband, her son and my son, we are anxiously awaiting the debut of her baby. Baby is literally due any day now, and if she/he chooses to come soon, she/he will have a beautiful homebirth nestled in a pretty [...]
Monday, January 18, 2010
In the last week, I have had the honor of attending two labor and births; both for mamas having their 4th baby. It made me very aware of a belief I have, and which these women both exhibited so beautifully. That belief is that pregnancy, labor, birth and motherhood require ATTITUDE. That attitude is one of [...]
Saturday, January 2, 2010
I am considering the following idea and would love some feedback about it. That’s what a blog is for, right? For as long as I have been involved in homebirth, it has been homebirth only. I have come to feel that I am not in the business of convincing anyone of homebirth, and that [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
Yep, that’s me!! Of course, you could argue that I am currently the ONLY….and that would be true too. But, seriously, I do believe I am so fortunate. To be here, in Sedona. To be serving these women. To be a midwife. To be so blessed in my professional [...]
Saturday, December 5, 2009
An experienced midwife once encouraged me to only think about being the best midwife that I can be. I love the feeling of that, because there are so many midwives and styles of practice out there, yet so many pregnant women, that it is truly not a competition among midwives. We only have [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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