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Resolve Birth Services

Resolve Birth Services offers community midwifery care and breastfeeding support to families in the Tidewater Region of Virginia.

Amy Michaelson-Ratcliffe is a Licensed Midwife and Certified Professional Midwife serving families through the perinatal period in pregnancy, birth, and through six weeks after the birth.

08/29/2025

Starr and Amy are at the Norfolk WIC Event today. Come and see us at our table if you’re here too!

07/25/2025

Or…if you switch the perspective to a normal, physiological one…”Could obstetrics be the cause of the American maternal health crisis?”
Because midwives were the norm, should be the norm, until about 100 years ago when birth switched to hospitals with doctors and healthy outcomes went up and down and now are currently in an absolutely abysmal state for a high-resource country. Those countries that have much better maternal health outcomes? Utilize midwives. How is it that we cannot see the issue for what it is?! When you try to interfere with normal, when you try to control what is out of our control, when you think that you know better than nature/Creator, you get repercussions. Profit over people leads to poor health outcomes.
Be informed. Know your options.

06/02/2025

What a Spring. The beauty that comes with walking alongside those who carry life doesn’t always come with happy endings. Life can be so fragile and birth plans can change and we can hold both joy and sorrow in our hands. What a gift it is, no matter the outcome, to love, support, and bear witness to the transformations that take place as mothers bloom and families strengthen and children make room for siblings. We love these families fiercely and are so humbly honored to have been welcomed into the most intimate times of their lives. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

05/27/2025

One of the benefits of community midwifery that isn’t talked about enough…getting to have loving pets included in home visits while you sit cross cross applesauce on a homemade quilt and talk openly with a new mama and her babe abut the joys and sorrows of new parenthood.

05/06/2025

While I always appreciate posts like this one by MotherLove Herbs, it is always important to me to set the standards correctly. When we set the standard at what is historically, culturally and physiologically normal - birth with midwives and not with OBs - the statistics look different.
Birth with midwives doesn’t lower rates of preterm births; birth with OBs increase the rates of preterm births.
Birth with midwives doesn’t lower the rates of pain relief meds. Birth with OBs increases the rates of pain relief meds.
Birth with midwives doesn’t lower the rates of cesarean sections. Birth with OBs increases the rates of cesarean sections.
Birth with midwives doesn’t lower the rate of episiotomies and forceps and vacuum deliveries. Birth with OBs increases the rates of episiotomies and forceps and vacuum deliveries.
Birth with midwives doesn’t raise maternal satisfaction rates. Birth with OBs lowers maternal satisfaction rates.
Birth with midwives isn’t cost-effective. Birth with OBs is cost inflated.

Midwives have been supporting women giving birth since the beginning of time. OB-attended birth is a new intervention and not what the standard should be for a normal, low-risk people. When you set the standard at midwives, you begin to see the story as it truly is.

05/04/2025

Check out our job announcement on our website for more details!

04/21/2025

We at Resolve Birth Services LOVE having doulas as part of a family’s care team. This is a great opportunity to meet a variety of doulas in one location and see if you find a fit!
Register for this event here: https://m.signupgenius.com/ #!/showRSVPSignUp/10C054CA9A62CA4FEC61-56066079-meet

03/03/2025

Welcome to all of our Winter Babies! Through snow storms and heat waves, these babies have brought love, joy and laughter to their families as well as their midwives. We love each and every one of these precious little ones and are honored to be able to be part of their beginnings. So much hard work and dedication has gone into each of these names on the birth board and we are awed and inspired by the families that put them there!

01/31/2025

Warning ‼️ This may upset many.

As a community-based midwife, I am getting weary of hearing these statistics. I’m weary of the phrase, “midwives are the answer!”.
I began to feel overwhelmed with the burden of responsibility for over-turning the perinatal care crisis in America as more and more stress has been placed on midwives to do more, train more, open access to more.
And while I’ve always felt this work as a service and a calling to do good, it’s time to get real here. The problem isn’t that midwives should do more. The problem is that the medical model screwed up. Midwives don’t reduce risks. The medical model increases risks.
The medical model stepped into the birth sphere and started burning and persecuting and prosecuting midwives, placing their technocratic model at the center of maternity salvation. And what we’ve seen over the past century is that the technocratic/medical model has messed it all up. We have scary high maternal and infant mortality and morbidity rates. Higher than any other first world country (psst, the others place midwives at the center of maternity care).
And instead of looking at the root cause of these statistics, we are passing the buck to midwives. They now must clean up the mess. Midwives who continue to be persecuted, under-paid, over-looked, demonized and ridiculed. If we had outcomes like the current medical model has, we would not have licenses to practice!
We are now tasked with bringing the maternal and infant mortality rates down. And while it may feel validating to know that our care has and will continue to create better outcomes, I want to hold accountable those who created this problem in the first place. Start doing better. Stop medicalizing birth. Stop making a mountain out of a molehill. Stop demonizing midwives. Start respecting women.

01/20/2025

It’s a boy!! It’s always a joy to be welcomed into family homes with their own traditions. Beschuit met muisjes Is a Dutch tradition of welcoming new babies! The anise in the candy sprinkles is thought to help digestion and breast milk production.

01/03/2025

What a beautiful year we have had at Resolve! We’ve spent so many hours getting to know our clients and their babies prenatally, and had the privilege of driving MANY miles to attend births and postpartum home visits, and have loved being able to get to know new clients and also watching our repeat clients’ families grow. We are so honored to be included in such a sacred time of our clients’ lives and thank every one of you for welcoming us into your lives. You are always so much more than just a number to us.

12/07/2024

This was a topic of discussion this week in prenatal appointments as well as postpartum appointments. While it can be helpful to be prepared for the “what ifs”, it is never helpful to dwell on them and borrow anxiety from *possible* situations. Being present and working toward goals will be much more beneficial!

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929 Ventures Way Suite 108
Chesapeake, VA
23320

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	3am - 6pm
Thursday	3pm - 6pm
Saturday	9am - 12pm

Website

http://www.resolvebirth.com/

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