Rainbow Midwifery

11/29/2024

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I am so grateful for all the sweet baby toes I’ve seen this year.

📸 Cameo by my son’s baby feet 👣 circa 2008.

10/28/2024

This is extended postpartum in action!! Sometimes I get to hold a sweet 9 month old and catch up with mom. 🥰

I love my job!!

10/25/2024

The latest blog post is here! Let me know what you think in the comments :)

When you glance at social media these days in relation to pregnancy nutrition a few things pop up. One is protein, protein, protein! We are absolutely obsessed with protein!!! I’ll add here, “yes” protein needs DO increase during pregnancy and there are many benefits to eating it. However, the...

10/21/2024

Some advantages of choosing homebirth that you might not have considered

There are many reasons a person might want to give birth at a freestanding birth center rather than a hospital. Most birth centers are owned and operated by midwives. Giving birth with a midwife has many advantages including great outcomes such as: fewer perineal tears, fewer c-sections, holistic ap

10/21/2024

There are many reasons a person might want to give birth at a freestanding birth center rather than a hospital. Most birth centers are owned and operated by midwives. Giving birth with a midwife has many advantages including great outcomes such as: fewer perineal tears, fewer c-sections, holistic approaches to preventing prenatal complications, extended delayed cord clamping, fewer interventions, increased autonomy in birth and the list could easily go on for a while here! According to one research study from the UK published in 2015: “Women who have a planned home birth have high rates of satisfaction related to home being a more comfortable environment and feeling more in control of the experience.”

Many individuals would rather give birth in a birth center, because to them it feels safer than giving birth at home. Well, I’m sorry to spoil that perception but it is just NOT true. When you choose to give birth at home with a midwife present, you are essentially bringing the birth center to your home!

(Full article linked in my stories and under my IG highlights “blog”)