Homebirth midwife in North Texas and Southern Oklahoma.
Do you love to read a good birth story? Are you tired of only hearing people’s horror stories about birth? If either of these applies to you, you might want to check out The Many Faces of Home Birth by Shantel Silbernagel. It is a collection of a good variety of birth stories. I hadn’t …
What is a birthing stool and why would I want to use one? History of the Birthing Stool According to Wikipedia, birthing chairs or stools can be traced back as far as 1450 BC Egypt, 200BC Greece, and 100 BC Britain. Asian, African, Pacific Islander, and Native American artwork has been found depicting women birthing …
One of the special things about being a midwife is getting to work with couples. I love watching that special bond between a couple. I may see it during prenatal visits when they are sitting across from me while telling a story. It really shows up during the birthing process. We love involving dads and …
When my oldest two sons were born, birth photography was not really a thing. My mom had a few pictures from the Homebirth of my little brother, but I had only seen a few new baby shots from other people’s births. So I have a few really dark pictures of my oldest getting his newborn …
Last month, I posted about the pros and cons of using a handheld device to listen to babies heartbeat intermittently versus using continuous fetal monitoring like hospitals do. You can read that post here. The focus on that post was more on using a handheld Doppler which uses sound waves to pick up the echo …
Can you listen to the baby’s heartbeat? How do you do that without lugging around those big old machines like the hospital has? These are some of the questions that I get asked pretty frequently. There are several different types of devices to listen to baby’s heart rates during pregnancy and birth. The hand held …
I love being a midwife. It is the best job that I have ever had. One reason that I feel that way is because I view it as a calling on my life and not just a job that I fell into or am working just to pay my bills. I have managed a couple …
Last year, I was looking for ways to promote my business and midwifery. My little brother also owns his own business in Nevada. He owns Orbis Tech Services which does audio/visual and security installations. He was telling me about how he had joined an international business networking group with chapters everywhere. He had tripled his …
When I was pregnant with my oldest son, What to Expect When You are Expecting was the main guide for pregnant women. I dutifully read it, but found the nutrition information impossible to live up to. That was just too much food to eat daily. I was a single mom working at Taco Bell at …
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