Cincy Midwife

07/30/2025

Long post ahead

Even though I’ve worked in women’s health all of my nursing career, I’ve never considered myself a huge proponent of or a type midwife. Until now. I attended a conference hosted by Grow Midwives in Kansas City this past week. And we are failing women, all women. Hugely.

The president of AWHONN shared a quote and it really hit home with me.

“Women are not dying because of untreatable diseases. They are dying because societies have yet to make the decision that their lives are worth saving: We have not yet valued women’s lives and health highly enough.” -Mahmoud Fathalla, past president of the Itnl Fed of Ob and Gyn.

It’s devastating to know that we, one of the richest countries in the world have an abominable maternal mortality and morbidity rate. These families are left with lifelong suffering with the loss or near deaths of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum.

The WHO has asserted that the midwifery model of care can solve this and has been proven in other countries.

We have been fighting this for decades. Let’s make this the last one.

No one is coming to save us. We are the people we have been waiting for.

Love to all my friends that are fighting the fight. ❤️

05/03/2023

04/26/2023

Have you wanted to “fix” your period only to be given a prescription for birth control pills? There are other options!

03/14/2023

What would you say if I told you that there was a solution that could (according to the WHO) decrease maternal mortality by up to 82% ?

03/08/2023

This is so true! Mamas, you can do everything in your power and your baby may need an alternative way of delivering.

We keep seeing these “how to avoid a cesarean” lists.

Can we tell you what’s wrong with those lists? It tells parents that if they just did the right things, their birth wouldn’t have ended up being a surgical one.

It places blame on the people having babies.

We can do all.the.things. to have the birth we desire to have.

And some babies still seem to need to come out via cesarean birth.

That isn’t failure.

03/08/2023

Did you know that there is a birth center that provides water birth as a birth option just 30 miles north of downtown Cincinnati?

Atrium Medical Center in Middletown, Ohio offers Natural Beginnings, a natural childbirth center within the hospital.

07/06/2022

https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/video/benefits-hospital-water-births-86290538

A new review of 36 studies found higher levels of satisfaction among mothers, less use of epidurals and less pain and less heavy bleeding after birth.

05/08/2022

Happy Mother’s Day 🌸 a link to an article I collaborated on.

BUSY, BUSY. It’s difficult keeping up with daily routines, let alone your kids’ appointments! Here’s why it’s important to stay on top of your own health, too.

12/27/2021

What topics do you wish were covered in your childbirth classes that weren’t?

11/14/2021

Did you know that Lamaze is not just a breathing technique but a way of birth that helps to promote the safest, healthiest birth for parents and babies?