Central Texas Midwifery

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Central Texas Midwifery

In-home prenatal, birth & postpartum care for pregnant people and their families. Specializing in low-risk pregnancy including breech and twins.

Focused on education, informed-choice, evidence-based practices and autonomy for individualized care.

09/17/2025

We’re deeply honored to share that Central Texas Midwifery has been named a finalist for Best in Birth in Austin. 🌿

Just being nominated in the Midwife category is such a meaningful recognition of the work we do to support families through pregnancy, birth, and beyond.

If you’d like to cast a vote, you can do so through the link below by September 22. 💛
https://form.typeform.com/to/FF9VPjW9

08/22/2025

We’re so excited to introduce you to the newest member of the Central Texas Midwifery family! Meet Scout—she’s joining us as a student midwife with ten years of experience in the birth field and a true passion for supporting families.

Scout has worn many hats in her work: doula, childbirth educator, prenatal yoga instructor, and advocate. She brings warmth, knowledge, and dedication to every stage of pregnancy, birth, and beyond.

As part of her training, Scout will be attending visits and births alongside our midwives. She’s compassionate, capable, and already such a bright addition to our team—we know you’ll love her as much as we do!

🧡 Your Birth. Your Midwives.

08/13/2025

August is National Wellness Month and we are focusing on sleep!
Good sleep is essential to your feeling of wellness. Sleep can be disrupted during pregnancy and most definitely is in the postpartum period! Here are tips to help get good restful sleep.

Good Sleep Hygiene: going to be around the same time every night, change your clothes, wash your face and brush your teeth. Having a nightly ritual around skin care for your face and body can help you feel cared for and loved.

What other sleep tips have you found useful? Tell us in the comments!
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07/27/2025

While the topic of prenatal care is oftentimes centered around baby and birther, we believe it takes a village. Bringing your support system, your village, into your prenatal journey can help you feel supported, empowered and seen. Here are three ways to bring your loved ones into your prenatal journey.
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06/23/2025

This weekend, we hosted a summer get-together, bringing together current and past clients for a day of connection, laughter, and community.
We love creating these opportunities a few times a year to stay connected with the incredible families we’ve walked alongside and to continue building the beautiful community that surrounds and supports Central Texas Midwifery.
Thank you to everyone who came out and made it so special!
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06/18/2025

Recently, Central Texas Midwifery’s own Kate Van Der Riet, LM, CPM, and Michelle Gold, LM, CPM, presented alongside Jess Good, CNM, MSN of and Amanda Shafton, CNM, DNP, FACNM, at virtual Grand Rounds on the scope and practice of midwifery and collaboration amount health care providers

Together, we led a powerful presentation on the importance of collaborative models between community-based and hospital-based providers. Our voices helped
strengthen connections across birth settings and highlighted the value midwives bring to maternal health care in Central Texas and beyond.

This was the most attended Grand Rounds at Saint David’s Main. Together we are allied health professions supporting informed choice and excellent individualized care. Supporting and educating the broader birthing community is an essential part of the work we do here at Central Texas Midwifery.
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05/16/2025

At Central Texas Midwifery, we specialize in natural birth at home, care that is rooted in trust, evidence, and deep respect for the birthing process. Whether it’s your first baby or your fifth, we’re here to support you through every breath, every push, and every triumphant moment.

Birth is raw, sacred, and deeply joyful — a powerful transformation that holds space for vulnerability, strength, and love. Every moment is a reminder of the miracle it is to bring life into the world, and we are truly humbled and honored to walk alongside families during this sacred journey.
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05/11/2025

Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at Central Texas Midwifery! Today, we celebrate every kind of mother—those raising babies and children, those who’ve experienced loss, those still hoping, and those mothering and parenting in ways that aren’t always seen. We know this day is joyful for many, and tender or painful for others. However your journey looks, your strength, care, and love are felt deeply. We honor you.
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05/05/2025

Today is International Day of the Midwife, a time to honor midwifery as an ancient, enduring, and essential part of our world — past, present, and future.

Midwifery is not just about birth. It’s about advocacy, education, community care, and standing at the threshold of life with reverence and skill. Midwives have been here across generations, offering not only clinical expertise, but also emotional grounding, cultural wisdom, and unwavering presence.

At Central Texas Midwifery, we’re proud to be part of this global legacy — shaping a future where compassionate, informed, and respectful care is the norm.

To all midwives around the world: we celebrate your resilience, your brilliance, and the impact you make far beyond the birth room

🔗Click the link in our bio for more information on our birth services!
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04/26/2025

House Bill 4553 threatens to significantly impact midwifery in Texas. This bill would require licensed midwives to report detailed birth outcomes—including hospital transfers and medical complications—to state agencies within ten days of every out-of-hospital birth, regardless of circumstance.

While data collection can support public health, the heavy reporting burdens, risk of penalties, and random audits outlined in H.B. 4553 create an environment of increased scrutiny that could undermine midwives’ ability to serve families freely and confidently.

Texas midwives play a crucial role in expanding safe, accessible, and personalized maternity care. It is critical that we urge our House representatives to oppose this bill to preserve families’ rights to choose their birth setting and to protect the future of community-based maternity care in Texas.

🔗Click the link in our bio to access shortcuts to all of these vital legislative calls to action. Let’s make our voices heard!

04/24/2025

It’s Central Texas Midwifery Birth Story time!
This is Katie’s story of her first birth with Central Texas Midwifery. With her faith in God and faith in her birth team, Katie rocked a swift, empowered homebirth. Read Katie’s full story by clicking the link in our bio.

04/16/2025

We are deeply inspired by the incredible Black maternal healthcare providers in our Austin community. We’ve had the honor of working alongside some of these women and have witnessed firsthand the profound impact they have—uplifting Black birthing people, advocating for equitable care, and actively working to close the gap in maternal health disparities.

Black Maternal Health Week, led by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, is a powerful time to uplift the voices and experiences of Black mamas and birthing people. It shines a light on the ongoing disparities in care, while celebrating the work being done to create safer, more equitable birth outcomes in Black communities.

In honor of this week, we offer our deepest gratitude and respect to the Black midwives, doulas, nurses, educators, and advocates doing this vital work with strength, wisdom, and compassion. Your dedication changes lives and shapes the future of birth—and we salute you.

We honor the Black leaders in our own community and those across the birthing world who continue to pave the way for more just, respectful, and empowering care
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Austin, TX
78701

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+15104851795

Website

http://www.centraltexasmidwifery.com/

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