Midwife Heather

09/02/2025

08/27/2025

REWIND to my biggest baby😳

After much discussion with her husband, mommy and daddy decided to repeat their cesarean section. Both are recovering well. *
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DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!!!
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The largest baby that I’ve helped earthside was 11lbs. What’s your largest baby?
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08/21/2025

Thank you for your contributions to birth world, Michel. May you rest in peace knowing you made a difference!

We are saddened to hear news of the passing of Michel Odent, whose vision and writing reshaped the way we understand human birth.

Michel Odent reminded us that birth is not a medical procedure to be controlled, but a primal rythm to be respected. He advocated for home-like maternity units, warm water births, protecting the birthing woman's privacy and honouring her instincts, undisturbed contact between mother and newborn; he was among the first to discuss the importance of the microbiome, and question many of the practices that had (and have) become normalised in overmedicalised maternity systems globally.

Michel Odent's legacy lives on in every dimmed, quiet birthing room, and in every midwife his words and work inspired to join our profession.

Thank you, Michel, for your passion, vision and committment to women and newborns.

Photo: Xavier Caré / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA

08/21/2025

✨ Home Birth in Kanehsatà:ke 🌙

In the early hours of August 19th at 12:47 am we had the immense honour of holding space for a home birth and welcoming a healthy baby boy into the world in the Tekontateriéntare Multigenerational Center for Women’s Wellness on Tsontkwahtentionhátie farm with the help of the midwives from the Blainville birthing center and our dedicated community birth keepers.

This marks the first home birth in Kanehsatà:ke in over 50 years. This is HUGE. Niawen’kò:wa to the family for believing in the vision of bringing birth home and the importance of women-centered care.

From the observant alpacas to the visiting turkeys, the curious skunk and the watchful deer, it seemed all of creation held its breath while Ís:ta did BIG work bringing baby earth side. It was an incredible experience that we’ll never forget and we hope to provide for many more families moving forward.

Our hearts are so full. Niá:wen. Niá:wen. Niá:wen!

08/17/2025

With deep love and gratitude, we welcome baby boy- Clover Benson Kehewin
born on August 14, 2025 on the land that carries our ancestors in Kehewin Cree Nation,
surrounded by his family, elders, birth support workers, and the gentle hands of our midwife, Melissa Cardinal-Grant. 🫶🏼

He entered this world to the soft sound of our Cree language,
his first moments wrapped in smudge,
bathed in love, ceremony, and song.
A baby welcoming song was sung,
a prayer carried by those who waited for him,
with hearts wide open and spirits strong.

He came into being under open skies,
held by the land, lifted by tradition, and embraced by wahkohtowin. ❤️

Already, he is teaching us about love, patience, and the power of healthy beginnings.

We are humbled, grateful, and so deeply in love with this beautiful birth work, we continue to pray in ceremony that we are guided by the kokoms and that we continue to have our baby’s born on the land. 🦅

08/14/2025

13 years of fighting for answers. 51 endometriosis lesions, a chocolate cyst, and my appendix were all removed across two surgeries with Seckin Endometriosis Center. My hernia from giving birth that was unzipping - was taken care of. I can FINALLY say that I’m feeling better. Genuinely healing. I can function in everyday life without wanting to throw up or pass out from the pain. Slowly, slowly gaining my strength back. I cannot express the gravity of my emotions as I am beginning to recognise myself again. I felt utterly ashamed as a teenager and young adult being told that my pain was just part of being a woman. I felt lesser. I felt hurt. I felt weak. That is not ok. Young girls and women shouldn’t feel alone with pain in the driver’s seat of their lives. We need to take away the stigma of talking about women’s health. It’s time to have open discussions and make change on a global scale.

08/13/2025

08/09/2025

Albertans deserve to have access to healthcare, including ROUTINE vaccinations for Covid. I have never had Covid and I don’t want to have it. I prefer to get my antibodies for serious illnesses via vaccination. I also have many pregnant clients who would prefer to protect themselves and their babies via vaccination since pregnant women are at increased risk of severe complications from Covid.

Why should tax payers be forced to pay the consequences for increased health issues, spending on longer hospitals stays for people sick with COVID who wanted a vaccine, and for the long term care some people will need after a COVID infection. why won’t you pay to protect your citizens?? Looking forward to seeing take your job and set things right.

08/02/2025

07/31/2025

Born on the Edge are so proud to have played a small part in the creation of this new FREE online course on immediate Kangaroo Mother Care (iKMC) for preterm and low birthweight babies.

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07/26/2025

Rural midwifery views with

02/20/2025

By Alvaro Córdova in Cotacachi, Ecuador.