Homebirth midwife in North Texas and Southern Oklahoma.
When I first heard about Amazon, it was mostly being used as a way for people to buy slightly used textbooks at huge discounts compared to the prices that college bookstores were offering them at. When my sister helped me shop for the textbooks needed for midwifery school, Amazon was probably the place that we …
April is Cesarean Awareness Month. As a Cesarean mom, this is a topic near to my heart. While Cesareans are overdone in the United States, it can be a very necessary and life saving surgery. As many as 1/3 of American women undergo major surgery to birth their babies every year. You can read more …
My oldest son was born when I was 18. I lived in a small town in the middle of the California desert. While I knew of home birth and midwives because of my mom’s experiences, we were at least 2 1/2 hours from the nearest one. We had only two obstetricians locally. Both were older …
Today’s guest post is by Emily Graham from Mighty Moms. As a budget conscious mom with many of my clients also on a budget, I was thrilled when Emily contacted me about doing this post. Read what Emily has to say about pregnancy and having a new baby on a budget. They say having a baby …
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 …