01/19/2026
✨2025 Birth Work Recap✨
I share my practice data intentionally because informed families make empowered decisions. In 2025, I supported 46 babies through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care. 🦋 Averaging ~4 births per month, across homes, birth centers, and hospitals throughout New Hampshire and Massachusetts!
✨Some highlights from the year:
🤍 46 babies born
⚖️ Smallest: 5 lb 14.6 oz | Largest: 9 lb 9 oz
🌊 23.9% waterbirths (including 1 in a hospital setting)
🏡 52.2% planned home births
🏠 13% birth center births
🏥 34.8% hospital births (this includes planned hospital births)
Because transfer is often misunderstood, I track it carefully and separately. Not everyone that transfers ends up in a C-section, or with an epidural:
• 23.9% antepartum/ during labor transfers
• 10.9% postpartum (immediately after birth) transfers
• 8.7% cesarean (c-section) rate
Transfers can happen before birth, during labor, or after baby arrives. A transfer isn’t a failure, it’s a safety tool. The hospital is not the enemy, I see many families fear this valuable tool in the toolbox. ♥️ Safety determines setting not the other way around. Transfers are a normal and responsible part of collaborative care, and they deserve to be mentioned.
More moments from this year that I hold with deep gratitude:
✨ 11 waterbirths
✨ 2 VBACs (vaginal birth after cesarean) & 2 TOLACs (trial of labor after cesarean)
✨ 4 cesarean births supported
✨ 1 vaginal surprise breech birth
✨ 1 set of identical twins born at home
✨ 2 repeat families
✨ 9 placenta encapsulations
✨ 2 Placenta Day EMT/AEMT cohorts
✨ 1 high school Birth Comfort Tools class
✨ 1 Period Party
✨ 2 true knots
✨ Reaching my 100th birth milestone!!
Behind every number is a real family, real decision-making, and real care, rooted in safety, communication, and respect. 💛 Going into 2026 with new goals to improve outcomes, connections, and personal sustainability! If you’re expecting in New Hampshire and looking for calm, evidence-informed, local birth support that honors both autonomy and flexibility, I’d be honored to connect. 🌿 Send me a DM!
