HazelTree Midwifery

11/05/2026

It’s HazelTreeHusband time!

Y’all might know this, but it takes a special breed to be married to a midwife. Middle of the night calls, way too much information about pregnancy & birth and the occasional placenta in the fridge aren’t for men with faint hearts!

We thought it’d be fun to quiz the HazelTree husbands! They do so much behind the scenes to help keep us running & we sure love them! How’d they do?

11/03/2026

10/28/2026

Thank you for your trust & your testimony, it’s always such an honor to walk alongside families🤍

10/27/2026

Ohhh, Mothers of Many. We love all the mamas we serve. And the HazelTree team really believes in good people making more good people, so we love large families! This mama has a unique story. She had all of her previous babies with two docs in our area that we love & this time around her OB referred her to us! What a cool collaboration. As her due date came & went she told us that for school her older kiddos had averaged out her previous due dates for their math practice that day.

She patiently waited & when the day came she labored beautifully, in the peace & quiet of the birth center. Something she had clearly done before & done well. Then this sweet girl was born & named Alice. She is as cute as can be and loved & adored by eight older siblings!

And drum roll please… this was Kat’s last catch before being able to sit for the NARM🙌

Welcome to the world, Alice! It’s been such an honor to care for you and your mama & love on your family. And such an honor that you are the last catch to make a midwife!

10/22/2026

In the world of birth work sometimes we joke that, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t force it to drink.” We give moms the knowledge & tools, & sometimes they don’t use them. This mama was the polar opposite of that. We led this mama, & she drank! Figuratively & literally as she bought an amazing water jug for her pregnancy tea that’s just a teeny tiny bit smaller than her actual baby😂

She is living proof that the work you put in during pregnancy pays off. She nourished her body. She did the brain work. She read the books. Took childbirth education class & invited her into her birth space as her doula.

She labored beautifully, & the HazelTree team arrived when her water had already broken. She was already in the pool & beginning to feel pushy.

This pretty girl is our surprise breech baby! And her mama took the news that her baby was coming b***y first with such grace. Thankfully, we were in Washington & able to offer this mama the option to birth at home as she had prepared & planned for.

She followed her body, moved so intuitively, & birthed this beautiful baby b***y first with amazing support from her husband. It was such an honor to witness your birth story unfold!

10/20/2026

Thank you for your trust & your testimony🤍

10/19/2026

What a beautiful way to greet the day!! Leaving the birth center after Kat Spies' caught her last babe to qualify for the NARM, where she & Laureeann Belle managed a stuck kiddo and a gnarly hemorrhage...to see this beautiful early beginnings of sunrise. God is good!!

10/17/2026

Yesterday was a fun day. During a full clinic day, we got a heads up that a mama was in labor. We let our last appointment know, & had a speedy last appointment & went on to shuffle over to this laboring mama’s home in Washington.

“Do you see the shape of her belly? That’s the shape of an OP, or a breech belly.” Kim said quietly to the students. This mama wanted a pretty hands off birth, but we started to see at first what appeared to be a tiny bit of a bald noggin as she was pushing in the pool. After a bit Kat asked if she could palpate mom’s belly.

Kim pulled out her handheld ultrasound, & there it was, confirmed. A b***y in the pelvis.

After an informed decision making conversation, making sure this family knew they could go to the hospital if they wanted, they decided to proceed with a vaginal breech birth at home.

A quick phone call to & she rushed over. The HazelTree team believes in breech, & is trained in breech, but having a set of hands that has handled more breech births than your own have can feel so reassuring.

So this mama worked hard & followed her body & birthed her baby b***y first. She did beautifully, supported by her husband & her wonderful doula & this birth will go down in HazelTree history as our first, surprise, primip breech!

We’re so grateful that our team has been able to learn about breech birth with & & glad to be a tiny team on the right side of history doing our part to

10/14/2026

I look forward to you having more babies, too!!! 😉

10/13/2026

A few weeks ago, on a Q&A day one of you asked what led us into midwifery. Each of has a unique story of what called us into midwifery.

Here’s Kim’s midwifery origin story🤍