Swiss Avenue Birth and Wellness Collaborative

06/10/2026

Your baby may be born, but your care isn't over.
The postpartum period is a time of healing, recovery, and adjustment. At your postpartum visits, we're checking on more than just baby—we're checking on you.
✨ Healing and recovery
✨ Feeding support
✨ Emotional well-being
✨ Newborn growth and development
✨ Questions and concerns along the way
At Swiss Avenue Birth & Wellness, postpartum care includes home visits, office visits, newborn assessments, and continued support from your midwives.
Because birth is just the beginning. 🤍

06/05/2026

Benefits of water in labor:
💧 Promotes relaxation and reduces stress hormones
💧 Encourages the release of natural endorphins
💧 Helps decrease the perception of pain
💧 Makes movement and position changes easier through buoyancy
💧 Reduces pressure on joints, hips, and back
💧 May support more efficient labor progress
💧 Creates a calm, private environment that many women find comforting
💧 Often decreases the need for additional pain relief interventions
No intervention is right for every woman, but for many, warm water becomes one of the most valuable comfort measures available. When a woman steps into warm water during labor, something incredible often happens. Her shoulders relax. Her breathing slows. Her body softens. And labor becomes more manageable.

06/01/2026

Birth is powerful. Birth is sacred.
When parents are educated, supported, and prepared, childbirth becomes an empowering moment.
Photographer .bridgewater

05/29/2026

Birth is Amazing. Our bodies transform and we are reborn as mothers.

05/28/2026

Licensed Midwives are trained to recognize when a higher level of care is needed and to transfer appropriately.
This is not fundamentally different from transfers that happen every day inside hospital systems:
Labor room to OR
Postpartum to surgery
Newborn to NICU
Transfer is often evidence of good clinical judgment, consultation, and appropriate risk assessment.
Safe maternity care is not about pretending complications never happen.
It is about recognizing them, responding appropriately, and supporting families through them.
Our goal is to support you in the birth you desire, but we always have a plan if something changes. We need safe transfer options and are always working to ensure they are available.

05/27/2026

We missed Midwife Andrea so much. Drop a comment for her first day back (with Knavy) in clinic.

05/26/2026

Training at Baylor today.

05/24/2026

If you have used a midwife to birth at home or birth center or believe in the rights of others to choose the care provider and place of birth that best suites their family- including a midwife, this one is for you:

There is a Midwives Advisory Board meeting on June 17, 2026 at 10am. Topics include public comment, rulemaking updates, enforcement processes, and compliance efforts.
Midwives Advisory Board | Texas.gov https://share.google/dMn2evTcQ3eBBrpt2

Let the Advisory Board hear directly from you.

To speak publicly during the virtual meeting, email [email protected] with:
• Agenda item or topic
• Your name
• Phone number
• Who you represent (yourself, client, business, etc.)

Requests to speak are due by noon the day before the meeting.
If you cannot attend, you can still email comments to the board to be shared with members.

Sabrina Sherrod Elliott and I have been working on something we would love for you to follow along with and support.
By midwives. For midwives.

Midwives Advocacy and Support Association (MASA) exists to support and elevate the midwifery profession through education, peer collaboration, mentorship, advocacy, legal resources, and professional safeguards.

We believe midwives deserve the same due process afforded other healthcare providers, to be governed by a body that uderstands midwives, and systems that strengthen both providers and the families they serve.

Follow along:
https://www.instagram.com/midwivesadvocacy?igsh=MXE3cmcwYXZ4eGFpeQ==

-Amy & Sabrina

40 Followers, 16 Following, 1 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Midwives Advocacy & Support Association (MASA) ()

05/23/2026

Your words lift us up. We are truly honored to serve your families.

Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. Hebrews 13:15
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