Yesterday, in my group Indie Birth text message broadcast, I was half-kidding about starting a campaign called #theytoldme; point being, my days are filled sometimes with stories women tell or send us about the INSANE, ridiculous, flat-out-WRONG things they have been told by the mainstream medical world. Well, people LOVED this idea. See all of […]

Watch and/or listen to this birth story podcast and video by a woman who had her 6th baby at home against all odds! It was a pleasure walking with this smart woman and her family as they navigated their choices and what was best for them, their baby and this birth. Stories like these remind […]

Watch and/or listen to this birth story podcast and video by a woman who had her 6th baby at home against all odds! It was a pleasure walking with this smart woman and her family as they navigated their choices and what was best for them, their baby and this birth. Stories like these remind […]

After 9 months of holding a free prenatal clinic here locally, the same questions and topics keep coming up, so I thought I’d share some of that with my podcast listeners. I’m hoping it maybe helps you start a prenatal clinic in your area, or maybe you are a mama who also would love the […]

The podcast this week is all about baby movement in the womb. This podcast is all about movement; when do babies start to move? When do we actually feel it, on average? What other factors influence how much baby movement we feel and what is “normal”? I share some helpful information as well as my […]

I created this short meditation for one of my Indie Birth Midwifery School classes after the students had been studying for many weeks about complications in pregnancy. I wanted to finish the course by reminding them, myself and anyone else that our brains can learn many things, but we must always bring our hearts back […]

In this podcast, I share about my experience in this pregnancy so far. I realize that no matter how many babies I have had, each requires me to “be” in the pregnancy state in a different way. This baby has had very specific messages for me, if only I would listen! Tune in to hear […]