Eight Moons Placenta Services

04/30/2026

9 minutes before baby was born, I looked over and saw this sweet gentleman peeking in to see what was happening. He just sat there. Knowing. Sensing. Steady. 🐾

04/30/2026

Bebe Toes!!!!!💗💗💗💗💗💗

04/27/2026

What a beautiful magical moment! After 39 hours of labor…. What a beautiful magical moment of triumph and empowerment for this Mama! …. and LOOK at that beautiful spiraled umbilical cord continuing to bring oxygenated and nutrient rich blood, iron, and stem cells from the placenta while baby takes his first breaths in life. I love this journey into midwifery and I’m so grateful to be apart of each of these moments in my apprenticeship with Birthing Way💗

04/27/2026

☀️Home Birth of Sol Lumen ☀️
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She stood in the glow of a sun-waking room,
Pink hair like a blossom in bright daylight bloom.
An artist of strange, wondrous, beautifully odd,
Whose visions felt whispered, half-wild and half-God.

Her walls held her stories in color and thread,
Wild shapes and soft creatures her own spirit led.
Each canvas alive with the worlds she could see,
All framing the space where her birth soon would be.

Each labor wave came crashing, both steady and wild,
She breathed through the rhythm to welcome her child.
And there by her side, her love ever near,
Her husband, her anchor, her calm in the fear.

At the end of each surge, when the tension would cease,
They’d meet in a kiss with soft moments of peace.
His hands, warm and grounding, would trace and would glide,
A language of safety her body replied.

But why was it slower? Why wasn’t he here?
She tasted the edge of a whispering fear.
Yet deep in her body, beneath all the sound,
A quieter knowing was steadily found.

She softened, surrendered, released into flow,
Trusting the path that her body would know.
For baby’s sweet head, slightly tilted askew,
Asynclitic journey, molding slow all the way through.

She moved to the floor by the side of her bed,
Where instinct and gravity gently were led.
Two hours of pushing, focus on face,
A primal deep power no time could erase.

She roared and she opened, she let herself be,
Not forcing the moment, but letting it free.
And there in the daylight, in breath and in cry,
Her son entered earth after hours passed by.

Their foreheads together, hearts beating as one,
Not just in this birth, but in all they had done.
For woven through love, through each kiss from the start
Was this life they had crafted,
true art from the heart.
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Welcome Baby Sol Lumen 8 lbs 3oz
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04/24/2026

I was blessed to be a part of a wonderful group of women at a Birthworkers Day Retreat this last weekend put on by Crystal Bailey and Amanda Bilyeo-Garrison. Fed by Sam Martin and hosted by Jessica Ernst. Thank you all for such an incredible time of community, healing, meditation and learning. I look forward to joining again💗🌞

“Surround yourself with good women who know how to listen, who know how to care, from whom you learn to relate to the world, women who teach you their power and lift you.” -unknown author

04/16/2026

For those of you who don’t know, I have 5 sons and 3 daughters. Having 5 sons means I get lots of amazing daughter-in-laws who all love and accept my weirdness as a lover of all things birth and empowerment of women in the knowledge of their bodies. Not only do they accept, but make me feel cherished and thought about when they randomly find things like these to surprise me with❤️❤️❤️.

04/13/2026

I had the privilege of being a midwife assistant at this Mama’s birth and I got to witness her incredibly purposeful birth team that she put together to support her during probably the most intense experience she’s ever done. ✨Birth✨
She labored and gave birth surrounded with her husband who loved and cherished her; her supportive best friend who knew how to push her; her caring and protective sister who made her feel safe; her trained doula who moved and supported her and her midwife who watched and brought baby safely and gently through birth. What a team! What an incredible birth support tribe that I got to be apart of!

Not all women want to be surrounded by support and people during labor…..Sometimes too many well-intentioned people can even hinder progress for moms. However, if you’ve never given birth before, having a strong and carefully selected supportive birth team is such a key component to arriving at the finish line of the birth you want. 💗

04/08/2026

1000% love this commercial!

04/07/2026

Pregnancy is more than just a season…your body transforms….blooms….and unfolds…..Belly Casting is such a beautiful way to capture and honor that incredible sacred change.

If belly casting is something that calls to you, then I can’t recommend my sweet friend Bruna enough! She creates the most stunning belly casting!
Go check out her work and show her some love💗.

04/04/2026

about one‑third of a baby’s blood is still in the placenta immediately after birth. Allowing time before clamping lets that blood return to the baby.

Delaying clamping for ~90 seconds allows a significant amount of blood to transfer to the baby, increasing circulating volume and supporting cardiovascular stability.

The graphic notes a ~60% increase in red blood cells, which boosts oxygen‑carrying capacity and supports early adaptation to life outside the womb.

The iron stores gained from delayed clamping can help prevent iron deficiency in infancy.

04/02/2026

Where does your baby grow? I wrote a lil poem.

Check out eight_moons_birthing’s post.