Sage Midwifery

Sage Midwifery Sarah White CPM, LM & Emily Bichard CPM, LM • serving families in the DFW area desiring home birth

Birth story PART 4:By 10 am I was 8cm. When the Midwife said 8, I laid there and cried. It was so reassuring to know tha...
12/27/2025

Birth story PART 4:
By 10 am I was 8cm. When the Midwife said 8, I laid there and cried. It was so reassuring to know that we had absolutely made the right call, and it felt like there might be a chance I was truly going to finish this. I needed so badly to hear her give me some news of progress. Two hours later, everyone was back. My whole precious team. I was 10 centimeters and feeling such strong pressure. I started pushing at around 1 oclock. Baby was ROT (on my right side with his head looking toward my left side) which isn’t the best position, and the midwife tried to rotate him. He didn’t budge, and ultimately stayed that way until he was nearly visible.
Just when I thought we were almost to the finish line, I started having this insane, sharp pain on my left side in what felt like my round ligament. Every time the contraction would peak, I felt that sharp pain first, then the pressure of baby. It felt like someone was twisting a knife into my groin, and my pain tolerance was so low at this point, I fear I was not coping as gracefully as I had been previously. But we kept going, pushed through it, and after about an hour of pushing we started to see his head. I had them bring in a mirror so I could see the progress with each push. I wanted to try and catch him, but I could barely get my arms around my giant belly.
Everyone cheered me on as his little head started coming out, followed by an arm, and then the rest of him. I pulled him up to my chest and could not stop the tears from flowing. Through it all, I just was so desperate to meet him, to hold him. And here he finally was. He came out with his hand up next to his ear, which explained that entire crazy labor. He could not get his little head situated, despite all our efforts due to that hand. And probably the fact that he was a big boy didn’t help either. Including the early labor, it was just around 50 hours. My first urge to push til epidural was somewhere in the realm of 20 hours. I’m thankful for my persistent, amazing team, for my hospital team, and I’m so grateful for a vaginal delivery.
Ellis Bichard was born on 9/15 at 2:25 pm, 9lbs 9oz, 21.5 in long.

I think Abby arrived around 9 am. I remember her coming to my side, and all I could say was “Abby, I thought I was almos...
12/26/2025

I think Abby arrived around 9 am. I remember her coming to my side, and all I could say was “Abby, I thought I was almost done.” She had me doing forward leaning inversions and did some adjusting as well. Then Brendon and I went outside and walked for a bit, and got some fresh air, scared the neighbors a little. I think from about 11 am to midnight that day, everything I remember is just a blur of moving around like a zombie, pain and pushing. Time does not exist in labor, and I was so out of my mind I didn’t realize how long it was taking me to do simple things, change positions. No matter what position we did, and we did them all, my body was uncontrollably bearing down with every contraction. Coupled with hip pain that had me begging for hip squeezes every contraction. We did a lot of moving, but also tried to encourage rest as much as possible. My water fully broke at around noon, so all those pushes my body was doing were accompanied with big gushes of fluid. At 1:30 I was still a 4 (during the first check, when Sarah was feeling baby’s head, I dilated to 4cm). We discussed transfer, but I just wasn’t ready to give it up yet. We continued to try all the things. We did the dreaded Walchers, we used a birth sling, I couldn’t stand to lie on my side any longer cause the pain was just so intense there that it became unmanageable. I remember at one point feeling so defeated, my husband called my old preceptor and dear friend Lincey. She knew I was in labor, and when she answered the phone, I remembering hearing her say “Emily?” And all I could do in response was sob. I think this was my first big emotional release all day that I can recall. She gave me a pep talk and some advice. We decided I’d get into the tub again and try to slow things down, and get an IV to rehydrate and facilitate rest. Unfortunately, the tub made things so much worse. It made my contractions come even closer together and I physically could not stop my body from trying to push.
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Birth story PART 2:At this point, my hips truly felt like they were being ripped apart, and after some time in the tub I...
12/24/2025

Birth story PART 2:
At this point, my hips truly felt like they were being ripped apart, and after some time in the tub I felt an urge to push. It wasn’t overwhelming at first, but it did make me want to try and check myself. To this day, I swear I felt my cervix at 7 centimeters and a bulging bag of waters. I even had Sarah double check me, but as all midwives know, checking someone in the tub is always the worst idea. And checking yourself in the tub? I should’ve known better! We both agreed that I felt to be around 7 cm, and I was so elated. I thought okay, yes I can finish this! My hips were opening up, my body was starting to push, it all felt like it was going in the right direction.
An hour passed. Then another. Then…another. I rolled around in that tub what felt like all night long. My photographer came, my assistant came. We were so ready for that baby to come out. And despite the growing intensity of my hip pain and the urge to push building with each contraction, nothing happened. I eventually got out, and tried to rest a while. I started leaking some fluid, thinking my water had broken. Looking back I think there was a high leak, but either way it made the urge to push even stronger. I was giving some decent effort with the urge and felt like absolutely nothing was happening. At 8 am, I had Sarah check me. Immediately when I felt her go in, I thought to myself “she’s going way deeper than she should have to.”
And that’s when she told me, okay Emily, you’re 3 centimeters.
I think I said something along the lines of “that cannot be true.” I felt confused, defeated, embarrassed.. I felt like the biggest wussy of all time. But why did it feel like my body was bearing down? All the questions and emotions just whirring around in my head.
Sarah felt like baby was posterior, so we decided to start with calling my chiropractor and then doing all the gymnastics.

Birth Story PART 1:I started having bloody show a couple days before my due date. This absolutely threw my off since I w...
12/24/2025

Birth Story PART 1:
I started having bloody show a couple days before my due date. This absolutely threw my off since I was fully prepared to go to 42 weeks. Looking back I’m so glad I went “on time”, that baby was certainly done cooking. I woke up several times the night of Sep 12, my due date, with stronger than normal cramps. I got up that next morning and was having very random, sporadic contractions. I knew this was likely early labor due to having bloody show over the past two days. I remember specifically around 10 am, I was talking to Brendon and telling him today might be the day, as I had just had several stronger cramps, but it was too early to know if he would be leaving work or not.
I think I started timing contractions around 2 pm, just trying to get an idea of how often they were. They were steadily 6-7 minutes lasting a minute, and I let my midwife and doula know. I was still very relaxed and things were not intense, but I just wanted everyone to have a heads up. I ended up on my knees leaning onto my couch, just breathing and trying to watch a show. I stayed there for longer than I probably would recommend, but it was really the only position I felt comfortable in.
Later that evening, I took a bath to try and help me relax, and it didn’t slow things down, which was encouraging at the time. I eventually made my way to my bed as things got more intense. I stayed in a hands and knees position, lying on a stack of pillows. I didn’t remember this until I looked back at my messages with my doula, but my hip pain had already started. If I’d known then how bad it would get… well, I’m glad I didn’t know.
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Newborn Exam 💕 We’re doing a lot more than just getting a weight when we do your baby’s newborn exam. We’re getting othe...
06/02/2025

Newborn Exam 💕
We’re doing a lot more than just getting a weight when we do your baby’s newborn exam. We’re getting other measurements too, as well as looking them over from head to toe. Checking for any abnormalities, variations in the norm, checking all their reflexes, looking in their mouth for lip and tongue ties, listening to their bowels, heart and lungs, making sure that they are all around healthy and well developed. And we do that all right in your bed, as close to mom as we can get. 🥰

Okay it’s my turn! 🙋🏼‍♀️Midwife Emily is having her first baby, yay! I will be out on maternity leave sep-Dec of this ye...
05/04/2025

Okay it’s my turn! 🙋🏼‍♀️
Midwife Emily is having her first baby, yay! I will be out on maternity leave sep-Dec of this year. This is for births only! I’ll still be available to do prenatal care for most of that time if you are my client for 2026. Since January mamas are just now getting positive tests, if you are wanting to inquire with me for January do NOT wait!! I am only taking a limited number of births for the first few months back, so reach out soon and get on the books!! I can’t wait to come back with all kinds of new knowledge and perspective to share with you wonderful ladies 🥰

I spy with my little eye….oh, that’s a foot. Two feet. And a butt 🤪A FUN birth back at the beginning of March! As you ca...
04/02/2025

I spy with my little eye….oh, that’s a foot. Two feet. And a butt 🤪

A FUN birth back at the beginning of March! As you can see by my attire, mom was progressing quite fast. Me, doula and the photographer all got there very close to when she started pushing. Mom was doing a beautiful and powerful job! When all of the sudden, I saw the tell tale sign of a breech baby, and that is 💩 very fresh meconium. Quickly followed by little toes and b***y cheeks! While we weren’t planning it, mom continued to listen to her body and push with such ease, and little girl came right out - complete breech!

*shared with permission*

Proud of each and every one of these ladies for doing what they believe was right and best for their babies and families...
12/14/2024

Proud of each and every one of these ladies for doing what they believe was right and best for their babies and families. We are here to inform first, and secondly, support whatever choice you make!

This morning greeted me with one of the juiciest, fattest umbilical cords I’ve seen in a minute 👀Cord was cut well over ...
12/07/2024

This morning greeted me with one of the juiciest, fattest umbilical cords I’ve seen in a minute 👀
Cord was cut well over an hour later, and baby got every bit of his well deserved blood!

How our mama thought her day was gonna go vs what happened instead 👶🏻🦃Happy Thanksgiving!
11/28/2024

How our mama thought her day was gonna go vs what happened instead 👶🏻🦃
Happy Thanksgiving!

The November babies are politely making their way into the world one weekend at a time. Thankful for these lovely Texas ...
11/16/2024

The November babies are politely making their way into the world one weekend at a time. Thankful for these lovely Texas fall afternoons keeping this midwife refreshed and ready for the next one!
Two more November babies left, wondering if they’ll come in order or switch places 👀😊

When you’re having that moment of “yeah…this is actually the greatest job on earth” 🥹 The ultimate satisfaction of watch...
07/05/2024

When you’re having that moment of “yeah…this is actually the greatest job on earth” 🥹
The ultimate satisfaction of watching someone who has fought tooth and nail to get the birth they want, it’s a very sweet payoff.

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