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 [...]

If I had just 5 minutes to speak with a newly pregnant mama, here is what I would say: Birth is a sacred rite of passage. It is not a medical event, except in rare cases. You are not sick and being pregnant is not a medical condition. In fact, it is the exact opposite. [...]

As midwives, we use many tools. Most of them are of the simple variety–fetoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, stethoscopes. But I have noticed the focus for me, on using a tool that is way more simple than any of those things. This tool is, however, more sensitive than anything made of steel or rubber. It is [...]

I’d like to approach the delicate subject of transports to the hospital from home; mainly for my own reflection and processing. I say “delicate” because for many (midwives and mamas alike), a transport conveys the “failure” of someone or something. In the past, I’ve been the midwife that, I’ll admit, has heard other midwives’ transport [...]

On the morning of Oct. 18th, I woke up at 9:00am feeling a few strong sensations of “tightness” in my stomach and also a sense of “elimination”. I often have one poop in the mornings, but this morning I went 4 times in a matter of a few hours and I felt two cramp-like contractions [...]

Just a quick post since I have gotten a few requests to sum up how one might encapsulate a placenta. (A few weeks ago, I posted on ingesting my placenta in a smoothie. To round out my experience, I tried my hand at encapsulating for a client of mine. Just to clear that up–although I [...]

“Placentophagy”- to me, the “Art” of eating one’s placenta…beginning this journey almost 4 months postpartum, under the order of my acupuncturist. Eagerly anticipating this journey, not just for physical reasons, but also spiritual ones. And excited to delve into this whole world of knowledge that is basically new to me; as well, excited to be [...]