Breathe Birth Care

Breathe Birth Care Support for the moments that leave you breathless.

Being a part of earth’s welcoming party is pretty incredible. 🖤
07/30/2026

Being a part of earth’s welcoming party is pretty incredible. 🖤

Did you know that we offer community events monthly for our clients and past clients? One of our favorite community even...
07/28/2026

Did you know that we offer community events monthly for our clients and past clients? One of our favorite community events is our Bookclub!
This is going to be our third year of Bookclub and we have so much fun reading new things together and chatting about it. We meet every month via zoom, but once every 3 months we do an in-person Bookclub and do a fun craft or activity that has todo with the book we read!
Yesterday’s Bookclub hosted an awesome conversation about the book we had just read, we then all voted on the books we wanted to read for this upcoming year, and finally we made adorable mini bookshelves with the books we read this last year.
Our Bookclub is super chill, it’s okay if you don’t read every book or even make it every month, we just love having you when you do make it! If you’re a Stay Awhile client or have birthed with either of us, you’re welcome here! 🖤

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a photograph that encapsulates us and the joy it is to be your midwives better. This wo...
07/25/2026

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a photograph that encapsulates us and the joy it is to be your midwives better. This work lights up our souls, we feel it all deeply and openly, and it is with absolute joy that we hold space for you to go to the depths of your soul to bring your baby into your arms. The smiles on the parents faces as they take in their new sweet baby, and the smile on our faces that matches is everything. What a gift it is to do this work, thank you for letting us be your midwives and walk along side you on your journey to meet your baby. 🖤

We love the offering of placenta encapsulation medicine. It is a beautiful way to take the organ your body made for this...
07/24/2026

We love the offering of placenta encapsulation medicine. It is a beautiful way to take the organ your body made for this pregnancy and baby, and then utilize it to support your healing postpartum.
Placenta encapsulation doesn’t have a lot of research behind it, but antidotally we see a BIG difference with mood and emotions and energy levels.
Placenta medicine is something we have both utilized in at least one of our postpartum healing experiences, and we both found it to be helpful and supportive. I always tell people, I don’t sell anything I haven’t tried and loved, and I mean it. Honoring my baby’s placenta by encapsulating it and ingesting it for my own health felt very full circle and empowering.
And if after reading all of that ^ placenta encapsulation still doesn’t feel right for you, that’s okay! Other options for honoring your placenta might look like:
—Having us do a placenta tour after birth
—Getting a placenta print made to show off the tree of life
—Burying your placenta under a plant or in a sacred space on your land
—Getting an umbilical cord keepsake made
—Getting dehydrated pieces of your placenta put into a keepsake necklace
—Getting your placenta turned into fertilizer for your yard

I don’t know if I’ll ever understand the hype around being such a busy birth worker that you’re never home, constantly e...
07/23/2026

I don’t know if I’ll ever understand the hype around being such a busy birth worker that you’re never home, constantly exhausted, and never truly at 100% capacity or rested. I used to really think that that kind of birth work was goals, but how quickly I have learned.
We have had three beautiful births this week in three short days, add on top of that four placentas to encapsulate, two days of clinic, and trying to be the mother of my children and an attentive partner, and I’m exhausted and depleted.
Luckily Teryl and I take on a balanced amount of clients that weeks like this only exist about once every two or three years. Not only lucky for us and our families, but lucky for our clients as well. Lucky them that they get us at full capacity 99% of the time. Lucky them that we have time to stay awhile if appointments run over. Lucky for them that we prioritize sustainability for their safety and our own.
And so as beautiful and miraculous as weeks like this are I am so grateful that this is not a typical week, that most babies space themselves out, and that most weeks I spend the majority of my week with my family. Because as important as this work is, my family and my health are more important. People often ask me how I can have this job while my children are young, and my answer is that most of the time I am home, that weeks like this, filled with babies, are the minority, and weeks filled with family are the priority.

Relinquishing control is often the biggest ask that birth has for us. Let go. Let go. Let go. I’ve never seen a birth go...
07/21/2026

Relinquishing control is often the biggest ask that birth has for us. Let go. Let go. Let go. I’ve never seen a birth go exactly as envisioned, there will always be nuances, some that are so small they are basically unnoticeable and others that change everything in the blink of an eye. But that is the journey of childbirth. Though the path may be familiar it is never the same as the time before. And for most, that is the challenge, to flow in the uncertainty, trusting that it is the way, even if it is not your way.
Watching two incredibly strong women bring their babies into the world this week who walked very different paths is the reminder. We can plan and prepare and work and envision, and still birth will take the path that it’s meant to. That is not to say that we should stop with the preparations and education, these are crucial pieces of feeling empowered in birth. But it is to remind us that control is the facade, the trickery we are fed. We find peace at the end of the day, when we turn around and float down the river rather than white knuckling the rapids. And in that floating we then have the capacity to choose to take a turn left of the rock or right of the rock rather than smacking into it because we are looking at where we have come from and not to where we are going.

Community midwifery care is different from hospital care in a lot of ways, but one big way is that we practice preventat...
06/20/2026

Community midwifery care is different from hospital care in a lot of ways, but one big way is that we practice preventative care. Rather than waiting until a complication is under way, we work diligently early on to prevent complications. We base these preventative measures on your history, risk factors, and tests and screenings done throughout pregnancy. However, as incredible as preventative care is, prevention depends both on knowledge and action. Screening tests, laboratory work, assessments, and ongoing monitoring throughout your care provide us with the information needed to identify risks before they become serious problems. Without gathering this information, opportunities for prevention may be missed. While we definitely encourage our client’s to make informed choices on which tests and screenings they consent to, it is important to note that one potential consequence to declining a test or screening could be that we do not catch something in time to prevent it.
At the same time, testing alone is not preventive care. Prevention requires that our clients understand the findings and choose to take recommended actions, such as following nutritional guidance, shifting lifestyle, attending follow-up appointments or screenings, and taking herbal supplements as needed.
Effective preventive care in midwifery is therefore a partnership: we, the provider help obtain and interpret information, while you, our client uses that knowledge to make informed decisions that support your health and the health of the baby. And what a beautiful way to receive care during your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, with midwives who provide the opportunities and information to you and then encourage you to make empowered and informed choices on what to do next. đź–¤

Yoni steaming is an ancient self-care practice that has long been used in various cultures to promote uterine and vagina...
06/19/2026

Yoni steaming is an ancient self-care practice that has long been used in various cultures to promote uterine and vaginal wellness and address a wide range of related symptoms.
When done with guidance from a yoni steaming facilitator, yoni steaming can be practiced at the end of pregnancy, once the baby is term (37 weeks) as well as in the first weeks postpartum. In our practice we have seen many benefits of yoni steaming in the later weeks of pregnancy and early weeks postpartum, including;
—Relaxation of pelvic muscles by improving circulation
—Softening of the cervix by improving circulation
—Easing labor anxiety by creating a ritual and self-care
—Reduction of tearing by preparing the tissues
—Encouraging labor by stimulating the uterine muscles
—Postpartum release of lochia by relaxing the tissues

Herbs I use in our yoni steaming blends include:
✨Lavender
✨Motherwort
✨Nettles
✨Mint
✨Lemon Peel
✨Mugwort
✨Astragalus

Did you yoni steam in preparation for birth or postpartum? If so, what did you think?

In a world that rushes, birth teaches another rhythm. It asks for patience, for trust, for the quiet courage to remain p...
06/18/2026

In a world that rushes, birth teaches another rhythm. It asks for patience, for trust, for the quiet courage to remain present when nothing can be forced and everything is unfolding in its own time.
Breath softens the impulse to hurry, it anchors us in the moment, and through breath, we remember that our role is not to control, but to witness, and support, and honor the wisdom from within.
Each birth invites us into sacred territory.
The first breath of life of the newborn.
The deep breath of the birthing parent finding their strength.
The collective breath held and released by everyone in the room.
These moments remind us that life begins not in haste, but in presence.

In a society obsessed with pain free birth, what would it look like to choose something that asks you to feel it all? Wh...
06/17/2026

In a society obsessed with pain free birth, what would it look like to choose something that asks you to feel it all? What would it look like to choose openness rather than avoidance? Could it be that the pain of childbirth has meaning in itself?
There is something deeply human about willingly stepping into difficulty when it serves a greater purpose. Each contraction a reminder that birth is not simply an experience, but a transformation of mind, body, and soul.
When we stop working to avoid the pain, we begin to work with birth and the process unfolds before our eyes. When we recognize that many of life’s greatest gifts come after extreme hardship, we can see how birth is no different.
Could it be that labor is actually an initiation—a passage through a threshold where control becomes impossible and surrender becomes necessary? An experience that feels less like “doing” and more like allowing.
What if, in allowing yourself to feel it all, your relationship with pain and discomfort changes?
A new knowing that pain does not have to be suffering or meaningless, that it can be purposeful, that it can crack you wide open, that it is the way toward transformation, is crucial. Because when you hit what feels like your threshold, knowing these things is often the only way through.
How many times, as a midwife, have I held the hands of someone crossing over that threshold, feeling absolutely terrified of what is next, and doing it anyways? Every. Single. Time. Whether their birth is vaginal or cesarean, there is pain and that pain is purposeful.
So, no, I don’t buy into this idea of pain free birth. Instead, I truly believe that the pain is a crucial part of the journey, and that by accepting it, we allow for our own transformation to unfold.

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