Moon Circle Midwifery and Wellness

09/16/2025

Great opportunity for moms!

Craving a community of Moms who get it? Mark your calendars & come move with us! 🏃‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️

This event is for moms of any age, at any stage. All are welcome! 💙

Link in bio to learn more & sign up, as always!

09/02/2025

Taking time during your pregnancy to mentally and physically prepare for your birth is one of the most important things you can do. Here are 10 of the most beneficial ways to help you prepare:

1. Practice breathing techniques to keep you feeling relaxed and calm.
2. Take a childbirth class/hypnobirthing course to become educated.
3. Keep moving your body to help build stamina and strength and to help your baby into a better position for birth.
4. Practice pregnancy yoga and pelvic health exercises such as Spinning Babies
5. Write positive affirmations for your pregnancy, birth, and your baby. Put them where you can see them and repeat them regularly to yourself.
6. Make time to unwind and relax and make it a priority.
7. Prepare your birth partner. Make sure they understand what you need from them during birth and how they can help you.
8. Bond with your baby bump. Talk to them, sing, read, touch, etc.
9. Write a birth plan. This helps you learn your preferences and know your options.
10. Find your tribe. Find like minded people who can support and motivate you or just be a listening ear.

09/02/2025

🌙✨ Considering Home Birth? ✨🌙

Moon Circle Midwifery & Wellness is honored to serve so many incredible families this year! We are currently fully booked until November, and space is already filling quickly through April 2026.

If you’re dreaming of a safe, supported, and empowering home birth, now is the perfect time to schedule your complimentary consultation. You get 30 minutes of one-on-one time with our midwife Darcie to talk about your vision for birth, your questions, and how midwifery care can support your journey.

Don’t wait! Your birth month may be the next to close!

Message us today or visit our website today to book your consultation!

www.mooncirclemidwifery.com

09/02/2025

It's Labor Day! Did you know that only about 4-5% of babies are born on their due date?! Our bodies do not have a timer and babies will come when they are ready! Was your baby born on their due date?

08/29/2025

You're not a difficult patient! You deserve to be heard and believed! ❤️

Here’s the thing: in medicine, being labeled “that patient” is real.

Sometimes it’s said with an eye roll in the exam room. Sometimes it’s written into your chart. And once it’s there, it can follow you from one doctor to the next. It’s shorthand for: she asks too many questions, she pushes back, she won’t just go along.

But history shows us why this happens: women’s pain has been dismissed for centuries. We’ve been told we’re “hysterical,” “emotional,” or “noncompliant.” And so many of us have learned to censor ourselves to stay polite, apologetic, agreeable just to avoid the label.

Yet here’s the truth: asking questions, saying no, or trusting your gut doesn’t make you “difficult.” It makes you discerning. It makes you informed. It makes you powerful.

As a physician and midwife, I can tell you this with certainty: women who advocate for themselves not only change their own health outcomes, they change the culture of care for all of us.

👉 Follow .avivaromm if you’re If you’re done with being dismissed, if you’re tired of shrinking yourself to be acceptable.

08/20/2025

Such subtle signs can make such a big difference in how a feeding can go!

08/15/2025

For all my more southern families! This is at the Severna Park location, and Emily Encinosa is awesome!

08/15/2025

Take a look at what's going on at the Rumina Center this fall!

08/15/2025

Talk it out! ❤️

Grown woman talk: the original cortisol cure!

When women connect in safe, supportive spaces, something remarkable happens: our oxytocin rises, our cortisol falls.

Psychologist Shelley Taylor calls it tend and befriend—a stress response as real and i mportant as “fight or flight.”

I’m so passionate about this that I devoted a chapter to it in both The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution and Hormone Intelligence.

Why? Because cortisol on overdrive - as it is for so many of us- impacts everything from our menstrual cycles and fertility to our thyroid, metabolism, and even how we sleep and age.

When cortisol stays high, it can disrupt ovulation, worsen PMS, fuel weight gain around the middle, spike blood sugar, and contribute to anxiety, depression, and burnout. Think inflammaging and an extra dose of symptoms, too!

Lowering it is powerful medicine that doesn’t come from or the Pill. It’s an inside job.

✨ A few ways to bring cortisol down:
• Make regular time for connection with friends. Don’t worry about sharing your honest challenges - both giver and receiver actually benefit (within limits of that friend who is always venting!)
• Spend time in nature.
• Practice slow, deep breathing or meditation especially if you wake up at night!
• Prioritize restorative sleep.

💬 Who is your anytime, anything person who makes you feel safer and lighter? Tag her in the comments so she knows!

📚 Learn more about cortisol in The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution and Hormone Intelligence—both have an entire chapter on this truly life-changing science.

08/11/2025

Great opportunity for some learning!

2-DAY BIRTH PREP CLASS

DAY 1
BIRTH ESSENTIALS WITH BECKY

▪️Learn all about the phases and stages of labor and birth
▪️Explore comfort measures, relaxation and partner support
▪️discuss common interventions and pain management
▪️what to expect after welcoming baby and your immediate postpartum ...and so much more

Learn more at www.marylandbirthservices.com


DAY 2
BODY READY BIRTH WITH CAROLINE

▪️Experience birthing positions before labor and how they can support your labor progress more smoothly and effectively
▪️Learn about the labor flow - what it is, how you get into it and stay in it
▪️Explore hands-on partner techniques to increase comfort and connection during labor
▪️Create mobility in all levels of your pelvis for birth....and much more

Learn more at www.junodoulamaryland.com

All classes are held on Saturdays from 11am to 3pm at the Rumina Center, 2 Hamill Rd Suite 344, Baltimore MD 21210 - $450

▪️September 13 & 20, 2025
▪️October 18 & 25, 2025
▪️November 15 & 22, 2025

To register send me an email to doula.carolineknisley@gmail.com

We can't wait to see you :)