Heart Strings Birth Services

11/16/2025

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11/15/2025

Last visit with this beautiful mama and baby. This is her second baby with Heart Strings and I am so thankful for all of the time we have had together.

You can’t find a mama who cares more about her family and I love to see how she’s taking care of herself and all of her family so well.

What a gift to be able to walk together another time on this journey and be able to see the growth in all of us.

Please know I am always here for you Chelsea and reach out for brainstorming and talks anytime! I love it!

11/12/2025

Ok this midwife can’t sleep. The dancing lights right over head and around the house are just incredible. 🥰

11/12/2025

And all of the sudden these night time home visits are the biggest gift. ✨

11/09/2025

So thankful for this friendship! What a gift!

Elizabeth: “M is for Midwife!” 😍😂

Or maybe that’s just how we helped our brains to be comfortable with compromise. Because we would much rather meet up at the Coffee Shop, but McD’s was the only thing open. 😂

Even though it was only a short 1/2 hour visit, we made the most of it with ice cream cones, a few birth stories, and endless laughs! Always worth the visit—no matter how short—with Midwife Elizabeth!

11/07/2025

I posted this to stories but it needs a permanent spot to be found again and again.

An excellent article today from . Note the lack of evidence supporting the use of continuous fetal monitoring, the clear influence of business and economics, and the money grab from AI companies who claim studies support their product - when in fact they don’t - resulting in remote monitoring hubs.

I especially love that placenta accreta is described early in the article so the public can see that cesareans carry risk. As a result, we need to ensure that they occur only when needed or wanted.

Note that the photo for this article is of a remote monitoring hub. One such hub is up to 60 miles away from the hospital in which the woman is laboring.

“Nearly every woman who gives birth in an American hospital is strapped with a belt of sensors to track the baby’s heartbeat. If the pattern is deemed abnormal — too slow, for example — doctors often call for an emergency C-section.

But this round-the-clock monitoring, the most common obstetric procedure in the country, rarely helps baby or mother. Decades of research have shown that the tool does not reliably predict fetal distress. In fact, experts say, it leads to many unnecessary surgeries as doctors overreact to its ever-changing readouts.

The obstetrics field has long ignored these problems. Now, it’s putting more trust than ever on the flawed technology, often prioritizing business and legal concerns ahead of what’s best for patients, The New York Times found.

This fall, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists updated its guidelines on continuous monitoring, sanctioning it even as some other wealthy countries have cautioned against its routine use…

All three remote hubs, along with 400 other hospitals around the country, use A.I. software to help analyze the heart data. The software’s maker, PeriGen, has claimed on its website that 50 studies backed up its products.

But none of the studies found that the technology improved birth outcomes. PeriGen removed the list of studies after an inquiry from The Times. The company’s chief executive, Matthew Sappern, acknowledged that no clinical trials had shown benefits.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/health/electronic-fetal-monitoring-c-sections.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE8.145f.FPhFANzFoVZp&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

11/06/2025

Iodine is so often ignored but it is soooo important!!!

11/05/2025

Dr Katie is one of the best kept secrets our area has for postpartum care (and prenatal) but I am determined to get her secret out there!

My clients all know her for her amazing postpartum preparedness class that is a part of Heart Strings care. ✨

11/04/2025

One of the best doulas around! If you have been thinking about a doula for your birth… do it! And definitely reach out and see if Candi is a fit for you! 💗

MammaWise Birth Doula - Supporting you every step of the way

11/04/2025

This mama decided that she definitely wanted a homebirth despite having something for pain with her other 3 babies and 2 vaginal births, and took preparing and planning for it seriously. I was so excited to see her dreams come to life… and…

She did it! I love her last words in the second video. She had help with the pain. It was her husband loving her through every contraction, every breath until their son was in her arms.

They are an incredible team, and it was such a blessing to be a part of their birth for Caitlyn and I.

10/30/2025

4 AM, on a foggy night. After a mad dash to be there for the birth. All is well with mama and baby, and we are off to bed.

Thank you Emily for being sooo amazing, and congratulations to this family on the birth of their little man! 💙

10/26/2025

The sunrise after 29 hours of helping two mamas feels glorious!

Thank you to everyone who helped, Caitlyn and Emily especially but there were some extra special players last night and I hope I get to tell that story later! You ladies rock!!!! ✨