Homebirth midwife in Denton, Texas, Ardmore, Oklahoma, and surrounding areas.
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 …
I first heard about postpartum depression when I was 20. My friend’s sister had recently had a baby and was suffering from it pretty badly. I would go to hang out at his house and his sister was almost always there. Her husband would drop her and the kids off at her mom’s house on …
Disclaimer – I did receive this book for free in exchange for my review. However I am not being compensated for this review and it is my own opinion. When I first heard about the books Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes by Lily Nichols RDN, CDE, I was …
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 …
Have you ever been to the doctor or midwife and been asked for a urine specimen? Do you know why they do that? Why I check your urine Would you believe that your urine tells quite a bit about how your body is functioning? It tells me a lot about what kind of things you …
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 …
Are you getting any exercise during your pregnancy? While you don’t want to start anything strenuous during pregnancy that you haven’t been doing previously, exercise has so many benefits. It can help prevent constipation, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, leg cramps, and swelling of the ankles. It also prevents back pain by strengthening the muscles that support the back. …