Taking Back Birth

Kendra was one my favorite mamas to serve and you know her already from her viral birth video. We had such a nice chat about her last pregnancy, how she connected with her baby, how she dealt with fears around birth and what she loves most about now serving women in the role of doula. Kendra is also an Indie Birth Midwifery School student and I love that her peaceful birth caused her to jump headf...

I thought I’d share more about how we celebrate and why and what my intentions are with my family. Our childhoods are such big influences on what we choose to continue with our kids, but I believe our intentions are just as meaningful. With creating ritual and traditions during holiday times, we create the future as well. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for! Click the icon below to listen. &#16...

There is so much wisdom in moving more slowly; apprenticeship and becoming a birth attendant is no exception. We live in a high octane world where even birth attendants are “made” in minutes or months. While that is an option, I really want us to consider the way it feels. Being in a hurry or feeling impatient on this path is also really normal; can we be with that and also hold space for the fact...

Sam and I chat about the birth bag shopping list she made for me recently. We could easily have spent hours on this, but wanted to share a little taste of the perspective that we share around tools and equipment. I love that Sam has brought such wisdom to our “team” here and I miss her so much as an in person friend and student! There are not that many women that think so intentionally about the s...

This podcast is taken from a Full Moon Circle we did all about radical prenatal care. I focused in on 3 principles and kinda went with that as a ramble. I will be offering a new Pregnancy Care Monthly Circle in 2024 that will be donation based and focused on prenatal care from ALL angles; this will be for pregnant mamas, birth workers and anyone interested. You can apply for this Pregnancy Care Ci...

I love the women I serve and love hearing from them after the bubble of birth and early mothering has settled. There is always such wisdom, and Kirstin is a great example of choosing consciously to come into her mothering in a way that felt aligned. Not the way that was taught or modeled for her, but in a way that her Soul led her to. I know you will love hearing the inside scoop from this mama, w...

It’s been a few week of social media madness, and I am so glad I could let myself settle before sharing with you, as always, my transparent heart and growth through what could be seen as a “negative” experience. I am so grateful for my somatic lessons lately and for my teachers, because to be able to transmute the experience of “they don’t like me or they don’t approve of my choices” is something...

This podcast is a riff (once again) on a social media post I wrote in response to the rhetoric I often see online about freebirth and how trauma can’t happen when people chose that. I obviously disagree, and explain why I think this. I talk about how we can best support women to feel whatever way they do about their experience. The applications for my (free) birth trauma circle slated for December...

I was pondering just a few ways that many midwives overuse technology. It’s not all or nothing, but there is a way to use our intelligence, our intuition and our intention when deciding what if any technology to offer to a client. I think it comes back to how you want to feel and how you want the women you are serving to feel…either seen, and powerful, or as another routine pregnancy that do...

This is kinda a riff on a post I wrote last month about birth being something we are called to by our Souls. I share some more thoughts, and some email responses and I hope this can remind you of why you are really here! Click the icon below to listen.          

On this live podcast, I addressed some rumors being sent my way by instead speaking about the sister wound in birth and midwifery. What is it? Why does this deep wound mean that we can’t be secure in ourselves? How does gossip and such happen among women that are supposed to be supporting women? Take a listen and tell me what you think! Click the icon below to listen.         &...

Every midwife I know has a similar story but yet there is shame in admitting them. Here’s some raw truths and my own vulnerable stories woven together around the times I was “blamed” as a midwife for a less-than-ideal outcome. I share my truth with the Universe and you all as a way to mend these old wounds, to share story as healing and to ultimately shift our awareness and the work of midwives in...

I made this new meditation for postpartum mamas for our new course called Mothering the Mother . If you’ve had a baby recently, or know someone that has, I wish you peace and relaxation with this visualization. Click the icon below to listen.          

Here’s another podcast recorded live on Youtube; this one focuses on the complication we call “shoulder dystocia”; but my focus (as usual) is on the metaphysical meaning and some other out of the box things to consider. Join me for this one, which includes some live Q and A and let me know what thoughts you have about this topic. Click the icon below to listen.          

I did a new thing this past week, which is I recorded this podcast live on Youtube . You’ll hear other people’s questions, and some more thoughts and pondering on how to label postpartum hemorrhage, the rates of hemorrhage in my own practice (hint; it’s super duper low) and other ideas to consider when excess bleeding happens. Click the icon below to listen.          

Wow, I had fun with this one! We posted a reel this week on Instagram of a beautiful “Closing of the Bones” ceremony that we offered a mama we served. This podcast is a combo of describing that to you AND offering my very transparent truth around this idea of “cultural appropriation”. I won’t spoil it for you, but I’m done listening to the programming around concepts like this that divide women an...

I am so excited to finally launch my Magical Mama Circle! I talked all about it after a quick webinar this week called “How to Raise Magical Children”. If you couldn’t attend live, and (like me) you prefer to listen to podcasts over watching videos, this is for you! I talk first about who this Circle is for and WHY and then include the replay of this webinar which goes into even more detail about...

I am so honored to have interviewed one of my favorite mama clients, Erny, who I met a while ago at an Indie Birth free workshop. She invited me on the journey of her fourth pregnancy and what a beautiful journey it was! Listen in as she tells the story of her ecstatic 4th birth; the first vaginal birth (not to mention homebirth) in her family’s recent history. You may contact Erny at: ernyjett@pr...

I had fun with this one since I’m not attending births right now and felt I could be so super duper honest! My hope for this podcast is that it inspires you to think beyond the (medical) box we’ve often found ourselves in as midwives and even as mamas that seek midwives. If we threw all the dopplers out tomorrow, would birth and babies be less safe? I doubt it, and we might have less traumatized m...

In this podcast, I wanted to riff on a recent post/blog I made about birth not being something you order up like cabinets. I go into a LOT more detail and expand on this idea with what I feel we CAN and CANNOT influence. Ultimately, we don’t get to choose life or death for another soul and I know that can feel both scary and comforting. As a midwife, I definitely do not get to choose that for anyo...

I have breastfed 10 babies and (still going) have learned a lot about nursing beyond the baby and infant time. Tune in to learn about Magical Mama membership and my experience around nursing older babies and kids. https://www.magicalmama.org Click the icon below to listen.          

Take these 10 minutes or so to connect with the baby that is growing in your womb, at whatever stage of pregnancy you are in. Connecting with your baby is one of the most sound ways to open that conversation and receive whatever insight is there to be received. Click the icon below to listen.          

SO excited to have Sam and Angelia on my podcast! Both of these amazing ladies have been working alongside of me the last year as students and apprentices and friends. I love the conversation we had and the insights and energy they always bring to the table. Imagine being raised as a student midwife with these concepts of managing your own energy, and of knowing how to create a sacred circle with...

In this podcast, I reflect on the old and new ways that midwifery is broken. With our new Elevate program, we seek to create a new consciousness. Check it out, registration closes this week! https://indiebirth.org/elevate Click the icon below to listen.          

So fun to have my friend Bridget back on my podcast after many years! In this chat, Bridget shares her insightful and humble self-directed journey from vegan expert to someone that’s embraced animal products and ancestral foods in the last few years. I loved talking about the power of our blood, reciprocity and hearing more from her experience of long-time veganism and the positive changes animal...