Northeast Texas Midwifery

07/07/2026

URGENT - 24 HOURS TO MEET DEADLINE
I have been made aware of an important legal effort in Oregon to establish a precedent requiring all state Medicaid programs to follow the Affordable Care Act's birth center and midwifery provisions.

How might this affect midwives in Texas?
Because the Affordable Care Act applies nationwide, the Oregon Supreme Court's interpretation could influence how Medicaid programs across the country understand and implement these federal requirements, affecting meaningful access to community-based maternity care for countless families. This also includes meaningful payment to providers for professional and facility fees.

Your donation will help fund the legal work needed to support this case.
There are only 24 hours to raise the $10,000 needed for legal fees to present the case to the Oregon State Supreme Court. Hermine Hayes-Klein will be the legal counsel if the case proceeds.

I am in support of this legal push and strongly encourage all Texas midwives (and their clients!) to donate to this fund.

Donations can be made through Zeffy at this link:

Urgent 24 hour turnaround on this fundraiser to advance access and coverage of midwives. 10K is needed by 7/8/26.Your gift helps protect midwifery care and…

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas to one and all!

11/22/2025

Thank you to all who have contributed to make this happen! We have helped our first client with a box of nutritious food!

Our NETX Midwifery Family Pantry is coming together! We started with a small shelf that very quickly overflowed with support and love from our community so we needed more storage ASAP! My dad is solving that for us today thanks to his mad woodworking skills, my uncles help putting it together and the wood donation from one of our precious clients. We’re so excited!

11/16/2025

I’m so glad that Megan, Summer, and I could take Breech Pro 2.0 together yesterday! We had a lot of laughs but also learned the skills that will help us provide safe breech births to our clients.

11/06/2025

This has been something I have wanted to do for a while now. WIC is helpful but I feel like pregnant mamas need more protein than what WIC gives them. Then the shutdown happened and SNAP benefits were threatened and I mentioned my thoughts to Midwife Megan Loewen . Count on her to get the ball rolling💜
We have a shelf set up, some initial donations in stock and we can make room for more. Also, although our little shelf is meant to help support our clients, I also plan to make a donation from my business to a local food pantry to also help the community at large. We truly are .

09/20/2025

We are actually in an area with poorer outcomes, however, I can’t honestly say that our services are accessible to everyone. Yes, we take Medicaid, and that helps, but if I charged everyone Medicaid rates for my services, I would soon be out of business. Or trying to do twice as many births each month which also isn’t sustainable.

09/20/2025

Here are two lawyers laying out the reasons and results of systemic inequality between midwives and the rest of the medical system.
"Inequality between medicine and midwifery is perpetuated in health policies, practice, law and economics..."

https://www.midwiferytoday.com/mt-articles/equality-for-midwives/

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09/17/2025

My favorite insurance response so far for a client with a history of two previous CS (and multiple VBACs):
“We won’t give pre-approval because she is low-risk and can go to one of our in-network providers in your area.”
(None of which would “allow” her to birth vaginally.)

09/15/2025

Honestly, I think she could make a two week series out of all the things that make running a birth center so frustrating… Let’s follow along, shall we?

MAKE THIS MAKE SENSE Series Intro:

Birth Center Week is September 14-20, but honestly? The whole birth center industry needs a 'Make This Make Sense' intervention!

This week, I'm launching a series that tackles the absurdities keeping birth centers from thriving:

📹 Monday: Workforce Edition - Why can't we staff centers?
📹 Tuesday: Insurance Edition - Payer logic that defies logic
📹 Wednesday: Equity Edition - 'Accessible' care that's not accessible
📹 Thursday: Career Transition Edition - Why midwives won't make the switch
📹 Friday: Liability Edition - Better outcomes, higher premiums?...
📹 Weekend: The whole system recap

Every day, I'm asking the questions everyone's thinking but afraid to say out loud...

Because celebrating birth centers is great. Fixing the broken systems around them? That's better.

Follow along if you're ready for some uncomfortable truths and real solutions.

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08/27/2025

Finally got our new sign installed! 😍💙