Sage Midwifery

Sage Midwifery Katy Rawlins, LM, CPM
Experienced, comprehensive community-based midwifery services in the greater Treasure Valley region (ID). Medicaid accepted.

Home birth with countryside birth suite option for extenuating living circumstances. Inquiries via website. Birth Suite option located in Star, Idaho

06/06/2026

This is us, influencing you, wherever you are, whatever setting you work in, to make birth better.

I lied and said I was busy.I was busy;But not in a way most people understand.I was busy watching my sister midwife mast...
06/01/2026

I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
But not in a way most people understand.

I was busy watching my sister midwife master breathwork through her contractions, dancing with her when she danced, and holding her when she pushed.

I was busy watching two care providers, a midwife and a doctor who have dedicated their lives to caring for others, heal from a decade of infertility and welcome their daughter into their arms, together, at home in the hallway, in front of a mirror, with no one else touching.

I was busy diapering my sister midwife, sitting below her, between her legs on her bathroom floor, and washing her gently with a warm cloth.

I was busy sitting in my sister midwife’s bed, sweating together while we worked on latching and saw her conquer her own breastfeeding tribulations.

Sometimes this is my busy, and I am blessed by it.

Congratulations Rebecca & Joseph. Welcome sweet Rose. 🌹

Mother’s Day 2026Barbara Katz Rothman said, “It’s not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives...
05/10/2026

Mother’s Day 2026
Barbara Katz Rothman said, “It’s not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.”
I found myself among sister midwives and our daughters, and fell to my knees in gratitude for the double miracle of knowing and loving them as midwives and the sacredness of witnessing them becoming mothers to these precious girls.
Midwifery and motherhood. Mothering the mothers. And this incredible year of mothering the midwives. All of us, together.
Wishing each of you a blessed and gentle Mother’s Day, especially including those whose tiny beings have wings. With love, Katy 💛

05/05/2026

International Day of the Midwife 2026
I spent the morning attending Idaho’s Midwifery Advisory Committee meeting in person to honor and advocate for my sister midwives and our scope of practice. My act of service and time as a gift to them. This dual masterpiece by is the vision I have carried in my heart and hands for all of my career thus far. It is more true and real than we could ever know. Thank you for the honor of serving you.
If one of my sister midwives has made your world better, go look her up and give her a five star Google review. She won’t ask for it, so do it for me and for the love she showed you. Happy International Day of the Midwife!

The Bereavement BestowalsPerhaps I will never get over the loss of Lainey. In a senseless, uncontrollable act of nature,...
04/20/2026

The Bereavement Bestowals
Perhaps I will never get over the loss of Lainey. In a senseless, uncontrollable act of nature, a knot in her cord pulled tight the week before we anticipated her birth. When her mother paged, unable to get her to move, there was an onset of 18 sleepless hours of chart review, what-ifs, and searching for answers, none of which made sense until the doctor laid Lainey’s still body on her mother’s stomach and, crying, held up the cord, rich with blood to the knot, and drained and white on the other side. Stillbirth strips a soul to the bone and tests the very marrow to its weakest immunities. In the days following, the paths were cleared and all that had to be done was to walk that dark path of survival. Her parents brought her home and I supported her Dad in keeping her cool and maintained for 6 days. The funeral home happened to have a casket and vault that was too small for another infant, which fit her perfectly. The coroner gave the blessing for burial in Lainey’s own backyard, the quiet countryside. The printers did a no-charge rush printing when they saw her footprints on the program. Her labor & postpartum nurse, Sarah Bennett, arrived for the viewing and funeral at nearly the same time she’d met them 7 days prior in L&D. Four weeks ago, some honeybee fabric caught my eye and I began to sew what would become Lainey’s 2nd birthday gift, in a deeply therapeutic journey of my midwife mind. I would do anything and give everything to bring Lainey back. Her death was the death of the *Illusion of Control* I still held onto in midwifery. Her death aligned my practice with truth and light, a light that shone brightly upon deceit and deception which had been deeply hidden from me. Because of Lainey, I counsel, listen, manage, and live differently. And mark my words: NOT in fear, in humility to the work and to the illusion of control as a maternity care provider. On Friday, Lainey’s Mom asked me to stand beside her as, this afternoon, she took a gift basket to the L&D unit where Lainey was born, to be gifted to a family who gives birth to a baby girl on April 20th, in memory of Lainey. They told her story, shared their gratitude, and cried. Tonight, my family met Lainey’s family at her grave, where this quilt was gifted, a bereavement bestowal, in honor of Lainey. Bees for Lainey, the backing to match the clothing I was honored to dress her in, the daisies which she was buried with, and the herons - said to carry messages to and from heaven - who remind us that Lainey is near. We watched the sunset, all together. Blessed 2nd birthday, Lainey. You will always be my why.

Welcome to the world, baby Smoke. Your mama’s heart burned with great purpose as she birthed you on Good Friday, every l...
04/09/2026

Welcome to the world, baby Smoke.
Your mama’s heart burned with great purpose as she birthed you on Good Friday, every laborious moment symbolic of the Atonement - from washing of water, pain and agony, to bloodshed, all for you. Your name was first spoken aloud after pause, through falling tears of sacred love. And there you were, the beautiful, gentle, perfect wispy plume of Smoke to follow the fiery blaze of a swift, perfect, and all-consuming labor.
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” —Ferdinand Foch

We were so fortunate to host midwife Vicki Penwell, founder of and Mercy in Action College of Midwifery for an all-too-...
04/01/2026

We were so fortunate to host midwife Vicki Penwell, founder of and Mercy in Action College of Midwifery for an all-too-short visit with new-mama-midwives and new-mama-student-midwives. I asked Vicki to bless the babies, to which she shared a story about how mothers can be both Mothers & Ballerinas……or more so, both Mothers & Midwives. As usual, I reminded Vicki that at every birth, to this day, I practice in the ways she taught me as a new grad midwife. And we shared a quiet conversation about the circumstances that make our souls grow. I will cling to her words, and hear her voice in my head, until I get to see her again. But for me, this was the day that little Jesse and Fritzy-Mae met their mamas’ version/generation of Ina May. And this is part of taking care of the mama midwives, so Idaho’s mothers can be best cared for. Thank you, Vicki, for the precious and priceless gift of your time and wisdom.

04/01/2026

Great visit with students and our recent graduate and their beautiful babies today at Sage Midwifery in Meridian!

🎗️Endometriosis Awareness Month 2026🎗️March 29 marks 3 years since my endometriosis excision surgery at Mayo Clinic Ariz...
03/31/2026

🎗️Endometriosis Awareness Month 2026🎗️
March 29 marks 3 years since my endometriosis excision surgery at Mayo Clinic Arizona with Dr. Megan Wasson, where stage IV deep infiltrating endometriosis was diagnosed and 33 lesions and areas were removed from my peritoneum. I’ve lost, thus far, 13 different organs and structures to this wildly under and misdiagnosed metastatic disease. From every pelvic ligament, vaginal reconstruction, the loss of my womb, an o***y, deep into my bladder and relying on catheters for months, to my kidneys, ureters, bowels and deep into the re**um, I still wouldn’t say that endometriosis has ravaged me - but I will shamelessly say that the over 90 OBGYN and ER visits, and every scan and test done being reported as “normal”, nearly cost me my life.
Endometriosis affects 1 in every 10 women and takes an average of 9 years to diagnose. This is not the patient’s fault. In fact, endometriosis is one of the easiest, quickest, and most accurate diagnoses a provider could make….if the patient is listened to. Yet to this day, there is not a single medication in existence that slows or stops the spread of the disease, nor does pregnancy or breastfeeding. And hysterectomy is the leading treatment offered, yet endometriosis is an extrauterine disease! With the advent of laparoscopy, physicians began burning the top of lesions as treatment, rather than excising lesions deep at the root, like cancer, to negative margins, leaving people torched from the inside with lesions growing deeper and deeper and the endo remaining ever present.
HEARD me. She and her team at .az.surgery meticulously excised deep lesions in my body for hours. I woke from surgery in less pain than I’d had for a decade prior. As a surgeon she has committed her life to evidence-based practice and she restored my life as a mother and as a midwife. I honor her.
I shared the weekend with close friends, including celebrating an Endo warrior’s 90th birthday! Since excision surgery restored my ability to sit on a saddle, I shared an hours long trail ride with another Endo warrior.
Painful periods are NOT normal!🎗️

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