Dear Pregnant Mama, You may know not your strength…yet. But I do. And I want to tell you that you are not only strong, but capable of anything. Anything at all. You will know this to be true once you have gone through the initiation of labor and birth. But since you aren’t there quite [...]

It is an ironic place I find myself in, some days. A nasty State department that wants to remove my midwifery license for supposedly not living up to the monkey-like duties of the all-important “Licensed Midwife” credential (sarcastic here of course). A joke if you knew me and maybe if you don’t…just because we aren’t [...]

I first met the midwife just three weeks before the due date. I thought she was amazing, and fantastic. I loved spending the few long prenatals before his birth hearing her talk, and being able to ask questions. She was, indeed, the one that set me on the path to midwifery. Even though I didn’t [...]

It was one of those days when I was feeling disillusioned with birth in the “system”-it happens, and as a midwife I deal with it more than I want to. So, yes, it was one of those days when I met her. Sitting across the table from one another, just having met, and an instant [...]

Changing Woman/Goddess of Change- female initiation, the coming of wisdom of strength, celebration. Drawing this card means you are in an initiatory stage in your life as a woman. The stage maybe be physical or it may be psychic, coming into your own strength and power as a woman. Initiation denotes change, and you have [...]

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2 homebirths this week, each equally beautiful and magical and both offering me a similar insight. Less, less, less, I say to myself at every birth. How can I “do” less? My mantra of “do nothing, say nothing, be nothing” is put to the test as I observe each and everything that occurs at a [...]

March is almost over…it’s been a long and short month at the same time. Lots of birthy stuff went on, and I wanted to note some really cool things that I either learned or was reminded of or just got plain old proof about. Sharing them here, whether you are mama or midwife or just [...]

Yes, it has been a while since my last post! Both very practical and sort of esoteric reasons for that. I think the practical is obvious; been busy with kids and mamas and babies and running around town. The less practical reasons are that sometimes I struggle to get my thoughts together about birth! It [...]

Quite often, I meet women who are looking into (or dreaming about!) homebirth. Sadly, a lot of these women have unsupportive or uneducated (or scared) partners that want to have the baby in the hospital. Even sadder, I’d say many of these couples wind up with unfulfilling experiences in pregnancy and birth because not only [...]