Spearmint and Sage Birth Keeper

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Spearmint and Sage Birth Keeper

Birthkeeper | Photographer | Placenta Specialist

Serving Stony Plain and surrounding areas

12/31/2025

2025, you were one to remember ❤️

Every number here represents a family, a threshold crossed, a moment of raw humanity and deep trust

To be invited into these births, into homes, long labours, quiet nights and powerful arrivals, is something I never take lightly

I am endlessly honoured to walk alongside each family as they reclaim birth on their own terms

I can’t help but feel like I am witnessing each birth with fresh eyes. Each so unique and unexplainably beautiful

This year stretched me, humbled me, brought me so much joy and reaffirmed my purpose. I have such deep gratitude for every family who trusted me to witness their becoming, their expansion, their creation

What an absolute gift. Thank you thank you thank you ❤️✨

10/09/2025

When I was preparing for my most recent birth, I made the decision to not have a birthkeeper present.

It wasn’t because I don’t value birthwork, it’s because I’ve come to understand just how delicate and sacred the birth space truly is.

For me, it was about protecting the energy of the room. I didn’t want to be influenced by other people’s emotions, opinions, or even their well-intentioned presence. I wanted stillness. Familiarity. My baby. My body. My intuition.

I wanted to birth in a space where every sound, every breath, every presence felt deeply known.

And it was beautiful.

But I also know that birth can bring moments of uncertainty. Times when you just need a gentle voice to remind you that everything you’re feeling is okay, that your body is wise, that you are safe.

My birth definitely had those moments and I’m thankful to my dear birthkeeper friends who I could lean on through the phone.

A gentle nudge to connect me back to everything I hold and knew within.

That’s why I began offering virtual support.

So that women who want to keep their birth space private and sacred can still reach out through text, call, or FaceTime when they need reassurance, reflection, or simply to be witnessed in their power.

Because sometimes, support doesn’t have to be in the room to be felt.

If this kind of support speaks to you: the kind that honours your privacy, your intuition, and your sacred birth space, reach out and I’ll share more about how I support women virtually through pregnancy, birth and postpartum ❤️

10/05/2025

The kind of horror movie that’ll keep you awake at night but it’s just standard of care 💀

09/10/2025

Better late than never.. August you were so good to me ❤️

07/31/2025

An ode to July ☀️

2 births that were polar opposites, 2 gorgeous and healthy baby girls, all the cozy postpartum visits, garden cut flowers, road trips, summer treats and good ol’ 90’s style sunny days spent with my boys.

07/01/2025

Can we normalize seeking birth attendants who have undergone deep initiations?

Holding space for birth is not just about what you’ve studied, it’s about who you’ve become.

I truly believe that lived experience often holds more weight than formal education when it comes to supporting women through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Books can teach science, technique and calculation, but they can’t teach embodiment, intuition, or how to sit with the rawness of these transformations.

To hold a woman through her own rite of passage, you must have walked through your own.

You must have met your shadows, grieved, surrendered, been cracked right open, and gone on to rise from the ashes.

This work asks for depth. For truth. For someone who doesn’t flinch in the face of intensity, but instead honours it, witnesses it and allows it to fully encompass all that they are.

I’d rather sit with the warriors. The women with dirt under their nails, blood on their hands, and stories etched into their bones.

What are your thoughts? 💭

06/02/2025

✨ 2026 babies entering the chat ✨

If you’re planning an intentional, sovereign, and supported pregnancy and birth journey outside of the system in 2026, I’d be honored to walk beside you both in-person or virtually!

I’m currently booking a limited number of births for next year to ensure deep presence and individualized care for each family.

Let’s connect and see if we’re aligned! Intake form is in my bio ❤️

05/22/2025

A wild animal doesn’t belong in a zoo, and a wild woman doesn’t belong in a hospital to birth.

We would never suggest putting all wild animals in zoos “just in case” they might face danger in the wild. That would be insane, right? It would disconnect them from their instincts, their freedom, their environment, their very being.

Yet this is exactly what we’ve normalized for women—birthing in captivity, in sterile rooms, under constant surveillance, often out of fear of the “what ifs.”

Zoos are marketed as safe havens—controlled environments where animals are “protected.”

But the reality is:
• Their instincts dull
• Their rhythms are disrupted
• Their spirits shrink

They are managed, not trusted.

The same happens when we remove birth from its natural habitat, the home.

The wild woman knows how to birth. Just like the wild animal knows how to hunt, mate, migrate, and live.

But when we confine her—hook her up to machines, strip her of autonomy, surround her with people who don’t trust her body—she forgets. She doubts. She complies.

This isn’t about guilt. It’s about awakening.

Not every birth belongs in a hospital, just like not every creature belongs behind glass.

We don’t need more cages. We need more trust.

05/16/2025

Family centred birth always has a special place in my heart

It feels deeply ancestral to have generations present for such a sacred yet normal event

Daughters and maidens witnessing, learning, and tending to the mother

Grandmothers and crones sharing wisdom, holding confident and grounded space

Men and sons recognizing the power and intensity of birth, receiving a new found appreciation and admiration for the mother

Mama having comforting touch and supportive eyes to gaze into through each contraction

Forever an honour to witness ❤️

05/06/2025

A bittersweet postpartum visit with this cutie and her powerful Mama 🌸🌷

I love my “job” ❤️

04/28/2025

This! ❤️

04/10/2025

You can feel her stirring—calling us back to life, back to her, back to ourselves ☀️

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Stony Plain, AB

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https://spearmintandsage.my.canva.site/birth-support

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