Homebirth midwife in Denton, Texas, Ardmore, Oklahoma, and surrounding areas.
April is Cesarean Awareness Month, so I thought today would be a great day to discuss C-sections and VBACs (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean). As a Cesarean and VBAC mama, I will be the first person to tell you that sometimes C-sections are necessary. It is so awesome that modern medicine can save the lives of …
While working on this post, I went to other websites to review their lists of why to have a homebirth. The main thing that I discovered is that each list is highly personalized and ranged from 4 to 35 reasons. Here are my reasons: 1. Better Quality of Care It doesn’t matter what type of …
Today, we are wrapping up World Doula Week! All of the ladies on the Comforts of Home team have or are still currently doulas in addition to being midwives or student midwives, so we have a heart for doulas around here. Doulas One question that I hear a lot is “What is the difference between …
My Mom’s Birth Experience One of the questions that I get asked the most is, “Why did I become a midwife?”. It starts with my mom’s pregnancy with my little sister. When my mom was pregnant with my sister Carina, we moved from Bishop, CA to Ridgecrest, CA which was about 2 1/2 hours away. …
I am about to get controversial on you. There is one thing that I think many birth professionals are doing a disservice to our clients on in the natural birth community. We teach women to pursue the perfect dream birth in many ways. Some of this is through books that encourage calling contractions rushes or …