American River Midwifery

03/13/2026

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03/08/2026

Wow, great story. Bonus part—the midwife is 82 yo. Planned out-of-hospital waterbirth with 2nd twin—breech. 😍

An Evanston couple is celebrating the latest additions to their family — fraternal twins who together weighed more than 18 pounds. The big babies were…

03/06/2026

02/27/2026

Do your research on this important intervention. Please hit the links in this post.

The media is panicking because fewer parents are choosing the Vitamin K shot.

What’s interesting is how many people defending it don’t actually know
• what it’s for
• what’s in it
• or how rare the condition is that it’s meant to prevent

They just know that declining it must mean parents are “ignorant.”

This is what happens when trust in the mainstream breaks.
People start asking questions.
They stop accepting interventions just because they’re routine.

What many parents aren’t told:

Newborns are not broken.
“Low” Vitamin K in breastfed babies is a biological norm...not a defect. Clotting factors are typically normal, even when levels are labeled “low.”

The shot isn’t treating an active problem.
It’s a large, synthetic dose given to prevent a rare, late-onset bleeding event that affects roughly 1 in 15,000 babies...and is most often associated with liver issues, malabsorption, or specific maternal medications.

The injection also bypasses natural gut regulation, delivers synthetic ingredients, and even carries warnings in its own insert. Nothing in medicine is ever perfectly safe.

For healthy, full-term babies, the risk is already exceedingly rare.

Parents deserve honest context...not fear tactics.
Birth decisions are complex.
There is no single “right” choice for every family.

What matters most is informed consent, not compliance.

It’s honestly sad to watch how quickly curiosity gets labeled as stupidity...especially when parents are just trying to make thoughtful decisions for their babies.

02/20/2026

“We are entering an era of change and remembrance. As trust in systemic healthcare fades and a deep desire grows to return to what makes us most human, birth has become a sacred threshold of reclamation.

Salutogenic Birth is a paradigm of birth that honors the innate capacity of the mother, the process of birth itself, and the resources available to her and her partner to build the skills and confidence to bring life into the world. In this model, it is not about location—home, birth center, or hospital—nor the expertise of a medical provider, midwife, or doula—it is about recognizing that the ability to create and give birth to life innately and purposefully exists within the hands of the family.” – Mackenzie McNamara, DC, CACCP

This article invites us into a salutogenic model of birth—one that centers trust in the body, relational support, and the innate intelligence of mother and baby rather than outcomes, locations, or interventions. Through a powerful birth story, it shows how biomechanics, presence, and gentle, well-timed support can restore coherence and allow birth to unfold as a sacred, physiological process.

Keep reading “The First Adjustment” by Mackenzie McNamara, DC in the latest issue: https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/chiropractic/the-first-adjustment.html

02/20/2026

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02/20/2026

Expecting a first baby? If your care provider is a typical obstetrician, and you are planning to birth at a typical hospital, you're at considerable risk for a cesarean that could have been avoided. My Resource Library article this month explains why, and more importantly, what you can do to protect yourself.

https://hencigoer.com/how-to-prevent-a-preventable-cesarean-for-failure-to-progress

For data-based information on pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and the postpartum, visit hencigoer.com/resource-library/

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02/11/2026

Things that make me full of rage...

LEAVE HER ALONE!

01/17/2026

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns, The Times found.

01/01/2026

Prenatal Ultrasound Does Not Improve Perinatal Outcomes by Judy Slome Cohain
Screening is meant to diagnose postdate and IUGR pregnancies. When routine ultrasound screening or measuring fundal height suggests that the baby is in the lowest tenth percentile for growth, the mother is referred for an organ scan, amniotic fluid index and biophysical profile, and if those results are questionable, then the woman undergoes Doppler velocity studies. Like the tests for cancer, research shows that these tests are somewhat able to detect findings of questionable relevance but unable to improve outcomes.

Author Judy Slome Cohain demonstrates how lifestyle changes do more to improve birth outcomes than prenatal screening tests.