Carrie’d in Grace - Revolutionary Birth Support

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Carrie’d in Grace - Revolutionary Birth Support

Certified holistic birthkeeper & doula. I provide full autonomy support for pregnant, birthing and postpartum mommas in Citrus county and surrounding areas

I provide full autonomy support for birth and postpartum mommas in Citrus county and surrounding areas

11/09/2025

This is the whole message!! 💛💛💛

11/08/2025

🪷 Birthkeeper Controversy 🪷
Birth-keeping isn’t a new idea…It’s the returning of what women have always done.
Before birth was regulated, licensed, or medically managed, women simply gathered around women. Midwifery was never a credential, it was an inheritance. A bonded trust. It was sisters & mothers, aunties & grannies. It was a divine assignment. But somewhere along the way, what was once “with woman” became “with medicine”. What was once guided by trust & intuition was stolen by policy & permission. Birth was moved from homes to hospitals, from faith to fear, from prayer to protocol & permission… the system took traditional midwives and decided to regulate & redefine them.
Yet the Spirit still calls us back to the quiet,
to the revolutionary work of witnessing life
as our foremothers once did.
Birthkeepers are not medical professionals & birth is not inherently a medical event.
As a Birthkeeper, I am not a medical provider, thus, I do not provide medical care.  I’m not even a midwife, and I don’t practice midwifery, as midwives have been redefined as medical providers.  I do not diagnose, clinically assess, or replace medical care. I simply sit with women. Praying, teaching, witnessing, and empowering mothers as they return to the truth that their bodies were in fact made for this.
“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” -Psalm 139:14.
When I share about self-led prenatal care or informed choice, it’s not medical guidance. It’s autonomy restored.  Because birth was never meant to belong to a system. It belongs to the mother.
It belongs to God.
“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
-2 Corinthians 3:17 ✨

11/03/2025

🙅‍♀️ When she doesn’t want counter pressure, or to be told how to breathe.
🌊 When her labors are so strong she has no room to make any conscious effort to do anything besides allow the waves to swallow her whole…we pray…until she’s able to come up for air again.
🙏 When she roars out as another one takes her under…
✝️ We sit still & speak whispered prayers…We invite The Holy Spirit to hold the room still & quiet.
💞 She is not one who can be told what to do or where to go. She simply asks not for guidance but for reverence.
🙏🤲So I lift my hands out & I pray 🤲🙏

Mama:
📸 Cred:

08/28/2025

💗 I sit here w/ such a full heart. After a slow start to the year, an unexpected busy spring of babies & a short summer break away from births, my calendar for the remainder of ‘25 is officially booked & flowing into the new year! Glory to the King! My gratitude is to Yahshua for blessing me w/ all of you! The many mamas who have trusted me to hold & support you as you embark on the journey of motherhood. To my repeat mamas: those who have welcomed me back into your homes, your spaces & your stories for a 2nd time, thank you. There is no higher honor than to be invited back into the holy presence of your birth experience. This January will mark 9 years since the Lord first called me to take this path of servitude…the very day my daughter was born. Almost immediately I began supporting women in pregnancy as a friend & advocate until Jan. 2020. This is when I started courses to become a certified & trained doula. In Sept. of 2020 I was officially certified & eager to start supporting mothers in their birth spaces. In March ‘21 the first baby of my career was born. Since then, the growth of Carrie’d in Grace | Revolutionary Birth Support has been nothing short of humbling.
This is more than a calling. It’s a movement. It’s not just birth work, it’s ministry. It’s not just rebellion it’s revolution. Together we are bringing back physiological, autonomous birth. Together we are reclaiming the safety, the nature & the sacredness of birth outside the hospital, together we are remembering the design of our Creator & standing in awe of the power He placed within women. Being your revolutionary Birthkeeper is my greatest love, second to being a mother myself. Those who have trusted me, prayed w/ me, birthed w/ me, I thank you for joining me in creating a generation of captive free birth, bringing back the family unit, forging faith. One home, one birth, one baby at a time. Thank you to every single family for your support & your love. You are my “why.” Here’s to the beauty of the journey, the strength of women, and the grace of God who weaves it all together. 🌸

08/23/2025

You’ll often notice I tend to close my eyes when I’m listening for your baby’s heartbeat. I do this because closing my eyes actually helps my brain focus more on sound. It quiets visual distractions so I can lean in with deeper attention. With a fetoscope, that focus especially matters. The heartbeat is subtle, it takes patience and stillness to catch it. But when it comes through, it’s the sweetest sound. It’s a steady rhythm, much like the sound of a horse galloping off in the distance. Every time I hear it, I’m reminded of the miracle unfolding in hidden places and the honor it is to be invited close enough to hear it. 💝

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08/12/2025

💛 There’s something so beautiful to me about the way a mother holds her daughter in labor w/ love & without fear. 💞
For me, it’s the arms that once cradled her in infancy, now holding her steady as she crosses the threshold into motherhood herself.
It’s the full circle moment of the mother becoming the grandmother,
the daughter becoming a mother & another daughter taking her first breath.
It’s the holy work of women where love doesn’t just pass down, it multiplies & where the strength of the women before becomes the courage of the woman becoming.
🪷 Birth is never just the making of a baby.
It’s the making of a mother & sometimes…the remaking of the one who made her. 🌷

06/28/2025

Postpartum visits are some of my favorite moments as a doula. The birth may be behind us, but the work of mothering is just beginning. To sit with a mama in the tender days after birth… to hold her story, her tears, her joy, and her baby - it’s a sacred assignment.
This mama is so incredibly special to me.
God knit our paths together in a way only He could. So gently, so purposefully. From the moment we met, I knew His hand was all over it.
The presence of God was so sweet in this room. It just felt like sitting in the overflow of God’s goodness.
The kind of peace you can’t manufacture, only the Holy Spirit can usher it in.
Thank you, Jesus, for letting me witness your hand at work in the lives of these families.�What a gift. What a ministry. 🤍

06/20/2025

😬🥴 Oops…sorry yall. I know I left ya hanging like a plot twist in a soap opera.😅 But bless it…I finally published another journal entry 🙃. After a little holy season of procrastination (aka me staring at my laptop w/ snacks & excuses), the follow-up to my last blog drop is finally on my website. 🥳
This journal entry is the long over-due postpartum sequel to the last birth story blog.
Late? Yeep 🤦‍♀️. Worth it? Also, yes.
👉If you haven’t read the birth story, go get caught up or this one might feel like jumping into a preacher’s sermon halfway through. (Psst, it’s the PDF right before this one 😉)
This peak into my diary is giving: frustration meets revelation. Raw reflections & redeemed moments.
So, here she is, grab your tea, put your feet up for 10 minutes & enjoy 😘
https://carriedingracerbs.wixsite.com/mysite-1/blog

05/06/2025

“Heart on the Floor” ♥️♥️♥️
In the hush between breath and first cry,�With chux pads spread like cotton rows nearby. �The room hums low with sacred grace,�A mother’s war, a newborn’s face.
Swift came the tide, the final flood,�A gush of warmth, a pulse of blood.🩸
Too quick for hands, to great surprise,
“I just birthed my placenta!”
The mother cries.
At the peak of the afternoon sun, this life forming organ’s journey is done.
Not on the pad, but carpet deep,�where blood and thread together seep. �It kissed the ground with nature’s art�A crimson echo, shaped like a heart.♥️
No painter’s brush, no sculptor’s blade,�Could match the mark that moment made.�A fleeting truth, both raw and real,�Of how we come, and how we heal.
They’ll scrub the stain, or maybe not,�For some would say it marks the spot.�Where pain met love in sudden grace�And left its heart upon her birth place.

04/28/2025

🩵 I recently attended a birth for a 3rd time boy mama and for the first time in almost 5 years of attending I got to witness something rare & beautiful.
Baby boy emerged from his mother’s womb into the birth pool and as mom brought baby to her chest I spotted a true knot 🪢 in the umbilical cord. 😍 y’all it was SO COOL!
For me, this was non alarming as her cord was in no way compromised by the knot. There was no restriction of oxygen or blood flow.
👉True knots occur in about 1% of pregnancies, usually forming early on when baby is small and active in the womb. While the idea of a knot might sound alarming, 🚨not all knots are dangerous; and this one was a perfect example of how God’s physiological design protects life.
The cord was healthy, blood flow uninterrupted…
Why? Because of Wharton’s jelly.
Wharton’s jelly is a thick, protective substance that surrounds the cord’s vessels, cushioning and preventing compression even when a knot is present.
This knot didn’t bring fear, it brought reverence. A reminder that birth is mysterious, wise, and often far more capable than we give it credit for.
Not every knot is a crisis. Sometimes, it’s just part of the story… and a beautiful one at that💫

02/02/2025

BLOG DROP!! Take a peak into my first in person experience as a doula. In this entry you will read about the challenges that had to be navigated and the feelings I was left with. This was a time of deep reflection and reevaluation of how I would go on to serve women and families. Things did not go as I had hoped or expected, but many lessons were learned. Enjoy!

https://carriedingracerbs.wixsite.com/mysite-1/blog

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6

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