Swiss Avenue Birth and Wellness Collaborative

10/19/2026

Sometimes our days look like this, and we are her for it. Family is so important to us, our family and yours.

10/15/2026

Pregnancy and infant loss affect more families than many realize.

🤍 1 in 10 known pregnancies ends in early miscarriage.

🤍 1 in 175 births in the United States ends in stillbirth.

🤍 1 in 181 babies born alive in the United States dies before their first birthday.

Behind every statistic is a baby. A family. A story. A lifetime of love.

At Swiss Avenue Birth & Wellness, we have the honor of walking beside families through some of life's most beautiful moments, but also through some of its most heartbreaking. We have shared tears, held hands, grieved alongside families, and witnessed the incredible love that remains even when a baby cannot stay.

To our families who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss: We remember your babies. We honor their lives. And we carry a piece of your stories in our hearts.

Whether your loss was yesterday or many years ago, whether your baby was held in your arms or only in your womb, their life matters. Your grief matters. You are not forgotten.

Tonight at 7 PM, we join families around the world in lighting a candle for the International Wave of Light. 🕯️

If you feel comfortable, we invite you to share your baby's name or a 🤍 in the comments so we can remember them with you.

With love,
Your Swiss Avenue Midwives 🤍

1in4 PregnancyLossAwareness

10/13/2026

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. President Reagan designated it in 1988 to recognize the particular grief of bereaved parents and to build the kind of public understanding that helps families get real support.

This Thursday, October 15, is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. At 7:00 pm local time, families around the world light a candle for one hour as part of the Wave of Light, founded in 2003. As each time zone lights its candles, the light moves west around the globe.

If you are a midwife, you carry names most people have never heard. Light a candle Thursday. If you are a parent reading this, your baby counts, and so does your grief, however early the loss came.

Please share or repost. Someone on your page is quietly marking this month alone.

10/09/2026

10/05/2026

09/23/2026

You are exactly who your baby needs.

Your voice is familiar. Your heartbeat is home. Your arms are their safe place. Your smell, your touch, your comfort—you are their world.
You don’t need to do everything perfectly. You don’t need to have all the answers. You don’t need to mother like anyone else.
Your baby doesn’t need a perfect mama.
They need you.
Trust yourself. Give yourself grace. Soak in the little moments.
You were made for this baby, and this baby was made for you.

09/21/2026

Sweet sisters waiting for their baby.

09/16/2026

🎉 Happy Birth Center Week! 🤍
This week we’re celebrating Swiss Avenue and all of the incredible birth centers across DFW!
We’re grateful for every family who chooses birth center care and for the midwives and birth workers who make these options possible in our community.
Help us celebrate—tag your favorite DFW birth center or birth worker in the comments and show them some love! 🤍🎈

09/14/2026

Questions to Ask When Choosing Your Midwife

Not every midwife practices the same way. Ask questions that help you understand her training, experience, and philosophy.

1. What is your philosophy about birth?

2. Was your training focused on out-of-hospital birth?

3. How experienced are you with the kind of birth I want?

4. Have you personally labored or given birth out of the hospital?
Not a requirement, but personal experience can shape how someone supports birth.

5. How do you support physiologic labor?

6. How often do you use interventions, and why?

7. What natural or holistic modalities are you skilled in?

8. What emergencies are you trained and equipped to manage? What happens if I need to transfer?
Will you come with me?

9. Who will actually attend my birth?

10. How do you handle it when I make a choice different from your recommendation?

You’re not just looking for someone who ⭐️allows⭐️ the birth you want. You want someone trained, experienced, and comfortable supporting it.

Save this for your midwife interviews and share it with someone searching for her birth team.