Breathe Birth Care

Breathe Birth Care Support for the moments that leave you breathless.

We often have the highest amount of anxiety coming from the parents whose families are going from one child to two. Thin...
02/03/2026

We often have the highest amount of anxiety coming from the parents whose families are going from one child to two. Things we commonly hear:
✨Will I be able to actually love another kiddo as much as I love the one I have?
✨I feel like I’m about to ruin my kiddos life with this new baby.
✨How will I be able to give them both what they need?

And the list continues. So first off, you are not alone. These feelings are valid and ones that I think most of us have felt. Typically we simply reassure that all finds its way, but these are a few of our tips for getting the older sibling ready/helping them in the moment.
✨Talk a lot about different ways they can help and be a part of new baby life. It could be as simple as getting diapers or burp rags, but it makes a big difference for them to feel helpful.
✨Make a little basket of activities and snacks that are only for during nursing session, ideally this will give them something to look forward to when your hands are a bit tied.
✨Once baby is here, do your best to make both the older child wait on the baby and the baby wait on the older child. This helps your kiddo know that they aren’t the only one waiting on you and feels more fair.
✨Don’t blame the baby! It sounds innocent to say “I can’t right now I’m feeding the baby” but it puts the bad feelings towards sibling. Instead you could say “I can’t right now but I do want to help you, give me 10 minutes”
✨Encourage normalcy in schedule and daily life. This often means that your partner or another support person is going to need to step in and make that happen. Let them, this is important.
✨Find 5-10 minute periods a few times throughout the day to have uninterrupted one on one time with them, this can be as simple as reading or coloring while you rest in bed! No phones and someone else with baby.
✨Really encourage your partner to get in there and bond with your older kiddo! This is one of my favorite things to watch occur, and the kids love it too!
✨Talk and listen, allow for conversation through all the feels.
Through it all, remember that one day they will be besties and all of the discomfort now will be something you hardly remember!

01/22/2026

Wharton’s Jelly is the gelatinous connective tissue that cushions and protects the blood vessels of the umbilical cord to prevent cord prolapse. It is especially important in the case of a true knot like this one!
See how easily the knot can move up and down the entire length of the cord without pulling tight? That is the beauty of how our bodies protect even the most wild of babies in the womb!
So often we are told that true knots and cords around babies necks are emergencies, but quite frankly we see them often in the homebirth setting, typically with no consequence or impact on the baby.
Our bodies are smart and protective and it’s in cool ways, like this true knot, that we visually get to see how smart they are!

In honor of little Wilder turning 6, here are some photos from my second homebirth where I caught my baby. There was so ...
12/30/2025

In honor of little Wilder turning 6, here are some photos from my second homebirth where I caught my baby. There was so much during this birth, it felt at times, like it was the darkest night. But that darkness made the joy and bliss so much greater. I’m so grateful for Wilder coming into this world to heal, and to see how much healing has already come from him being with us for 6 short years. Birth is hard, it will push to the limits and beyond, and sometimes your hardest most traumatic birth is your biggest teacher and one you will always be grateful for once you’ve healed.
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Slow living midwifery, this is what we practice and preach. Our client load stays small, visits get the time that they n...
12/15/2025

Slow living midwifery, this is what we practice and preach. Our client load stays small, visits get the time that they need, we enjoy time with our own families, the aim is sustainability and care that feels like a big warm hug.
One of the best ways to love on me has always been with food, I will never ever forget the beautiful people in my life who have showed up with food during illness, postpartum, etc. It means the world.
In my mind, cooking for our clients has always made sense with the idea of slow living midwifery. But I am not the kind of chef who can whip something up out of nowhere, and after a long birth or two, the last place you’ll find me is in the kitchen. Yet still, the goal to bring nourishment into these homes was there.
Last weekend I learned some incredible recipes from the incredible and today, with the help of my sweet partner, I meal prepped the soup and Atole Aveno she taught us to make. Organic nutrient rich ingredients, each with a purpose for postpartum healing and milk production. One for the immediate postpartum and one to use in the weeks to come. I’m so grateful I found a way to make this happen finally, and I’m so grateful to nourish the families we love by bringing them warm cozy meals to their homes. Because really, what is better than good food after working hard to bring your baby into your arms?

11/23/2025

Today was a skills day for the students and we worked on pelvic exams and breaking waters! It is often the more invasive skills that students are slow to learn, because we don’t do them often and because they can feel a lot more anxiety due to the invasive nature of these skills. Today our students got the chance to break water ballons with either the amnihook or the amnicot while running through different scenarios and practicing the risks versus benefits conversation. They also each blindly measured different cylinders to work on figuring out effacement and dilation. Then lastly we all made bead bracelets and keychains that are each 10cm for practice outside of the skills day.
As always there was tons of laughter and playfulness throughout the entire afternoon. We have so much fun as a team! We love these future midwives and can’t wait to see how far they will go! 🖤

11/22/2025

Take a peak at our favorite postpartum planning workbook
We spend a lot of time during appointments talking about postpartum because it is so important and often forgotten in all of the birth prepping.
This workbook helps you figure out the nitty gritty and honestly saved my life last postpartum. I remember that on my most depressed down night I knew who my inner circle was, who to text, and what to ask for because I had done the work in this workbook prenatally.
If your goal is a supported and cozy postpartum, this is one of the ways we recommend preparing for it. It even goes into detail on what to happen when the unexpected occurs, and if we know anything about birth and postpartum, unexpected should maybe just be expected.

When the words “too sensitive” are thrown like knives, whose only intentions are to cut you down, we look at sensitivit...
11/20/2025

When the words “too sensitive” are thrown like knives, whose only intentions are to cut you down, we look at sensitivity like a curse. These words are often used to deflect responsibility when actions they do cause harm. Or maybe they are instead used as blinders for people so uncomfortable with discomfort that they’d rather you bottle it up so they don’t have to see it.
But what if we changed the narrative, what if being deeply sensitive is instead, a gift? An ability to be so very in tune with your body and the world around you that there is no other pathway through than to feel it all. An ability to listen to your inner knowing above all else and to then trust what it tells you.
What if, instead of feeling the shame they hope we will feel, we thank them. Because we are deeply feeling people who are sensitive to small changes in our bodies and environments, and that is a blessing.
What if we took back the phrase too sensitive and saw it as the powerful thing it is in life, parenthood, and beyond.
What if instead of deep sensitivity being a fault line in us, the lack of sensitivity is a chasm for them, one so deep they cannot help but point it out.
What if your deep awareness and understanding will be what guides you through birth and into postpartum rather than a reason that you could fail?
What if the sensations your body innately knows how to feel and understand are the guideposts along the trail to your baby being in your arms?
What if this deep sensitivity is actually your power
What if?

We all know that bodies dilate to about 10cm before pushing occurs and babies are born. In hospital settings, vaginal ex...
11/19/2025

We all know that bodies dilate to about 10cm before pushing occurs and babies are born. In hospital settings, vaginal exams are not just common place but often required. At home? Not so much. As midwife’s we know first and foremost that a laboring body can be, for the most part, trusted. And we also recognize that there are many other signs and symptoms that can provide us with knowledge about what phase and stage of labor we are in, if baby is in a good position, and even how dilation is occurring or where baby is moving to in the body.
In most of our births we will never even ask for a vaginal exam, observing and trusting as birth unfolds. Occasionally there are moments where a vaginal exam could be helpful, but even then, we are always okay with a birthing parent declining the vaginal exam and continuing forward without it.
I don’t know how many times we have witnessed dilation do it’s very own thing, sometimes it’s a parent needing a nap at 10cm to prepare for pushing, other times, we see dilation go from 3cm to 10cm in a matter of moments, we have even had a mom hang out at 7cm dilation for weeks before going into labor. Because we have seen such amazing and miraculous occurrences with dilation, dilation and dilation speed is not something we are specifically looking for to tell us that birth is normal and baby is on the way. It is true that the cervix is not a crystal ball, even if you’re at 10cm I cannot tell you how much longer you’ll be laboring or how many contractions you have left. But what I can tell you, is that in most cases, you can trust your body and your baby to guide the way.

Patience and trust in the body and its ability to gracefully and peacefully birth a baby has come up in our last few bir...
11/06/2025

Patience and trust in the body and its ability to gracefully and peacefully birth a baby has come up in our last few births, but this one has continued to stay in my mind. Over and over during this birth, I thought to myself how differently it would have looked if we were in a hospital setting. If doctors and nurses were expecting 1cm/hour, if Pitocin was started when her body needed a break, if she were forced to push at 10cm, if her body had not been trusted with innate wisdom on how it could and would eventually birth her baby.
Over and over we checked her vitals and listened to her baby’s strong and sure heartbeat. We gave fluids for energy and encouraged eating and laboring in restful positions. But overall, we trusted her body and its ability, knowing that sometimes all that is needed is time.
And to watch this incredible mother patiently wait for her body and baby’s readiness to push and birth was something else. She did not beg nor plea, but simply allowed the process to unfold, and unfold it did, so beautifully, hours later than expected, and yet at the most perfect time. 🖤

On a busy morning, a mother labored as her children splashed in the birth pool and kissed her face, and awaited a baby. ...
11/05/2025

On a busy morning, a mother labored as her children splashed in the birth pool and kissed her face, and awaited a baby. When the midwives arrived it made things even more exciting. And when they asked for hand balloons the midwives made them, giggling and laughing with them as they did so. And the mother labored on. And though this was only a small a moment of the birth, it mattered. It made a memory the children will never forget about the day their brother was born. Birth is a family event that occurs in joyful moments like this. And as the woman labored on, hand balloons bounced around the room, reminding her of her children long after they had gone off to school.

We provide every client in our care with a birth kit at their 36 week appointment! Most of what is included are disposab...
10/27/2025

We provide every client in our care with a birth kit at their 36 week appointment! Most of what is included are disposable items we use at your birth, but here is a list of everything they come with!
✨Chux pads
✨6 depends adult diapers
✨Pads for padsicles
✨Fish net for solids in the pool
✨Handmade onesie and newborn hat
✨Garbage bags
✨Birth tub
✨Pool liner
✨Hose adaptar
✨2 shower curtains for bed and floor protection
✨Witch Hazel
✨Hydrogen peroxide
✨Amnicator
✨GBS swab
✨Peri bottle
✨Bendy straws
✨Electrolyte packs
✨Gloves
✨Lube
✨Cord clamps
✨Gauze
✨Bulb Syringe
And that’s it! Happy birth kit day!
When we get to your birth, it then looks like we are moving in with our big bags of other supplies!

Intermittent fetal monitoring with a Doppler is how we check in on babies during pregnancy and labor. Many times people ...
10/20/2025

Intermittent fetal monitoring with a Doppler is how we check in on babies during pregnancy and labor. Many times people will see that homebirth photos don’t have the bands on the belly like hospital photos have and assume we don’t check in on babies, and that’s just not the case. We love utilizing our Doppler and listening to baby every 30 minutes during active labor, every 15 minutes during transition, and every 5 minutes or every other contraction during pushing. If we do hear something concerning you might notice that we do more frequent monitoring or stay listening consistently, but typically we can listen intermittently and have reassurance baby is doing well.
We love intermittent monitoring, but why do our clients love it?
🖤Comfortable for the birthing parent
🖤Everyone in the room can hear the fetal heart beat
🖤Can be used in many different laboring positions
Can be used underwater
🖤Allows for more personal space
🖤Does not require wearing uncomfortable belts
Research also shows that there appears to be no differences between intermediate monitoring and continuous fetal monitoring. In fact, some studies showed that continuous fetal monitoring was 63% more likely to result in a cesarean section and 15% more likely to result in forceps or vacuum assisted birth.
We have been told that hearing the baby’s heartbeat each appointment was the best part of our client’s week and that the Doppler getting baby’s heart rate during birth provided peace as they labored to bring their baby earth side.

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