West Michigan Midwifery

12/23/2025

There’s a reason we refer to the toilet as dilation station and any midwife or birth doula can tell you why.

Why can moving to the toilet help labor progress?

🚽 Movement - Movement throughout labor is important, but the difference can often be seen swiftly in transition and pushing. Sometimes just the walk to the bathroom is enough and birth happens halfway there.
🚽 Privacy - the bathroom is a place we’re normally alone. It’s small, confined, and we’re used to relaxing in there. (Hopefully!) All great things for labor!
🚽 Position - We naturally relax our pelvic floor when we sit down on the toilet. Relaxing those muscles is always helpful.
🚽 Keeping your bladder empty helps your uterus contract without added pressure from your bladder.
🚽💩- sometimes clients really feel like they need to have a bowel movement when they start pushing. To a midwife that is encouraging, but ✨shockingly ✨not everyone is comfortable leaning into that sensation with others present. Moving to the toilet can help! Either they go to the bathroom and feel better, or they feel their body continuing to push and we catch a baby on the toilet.

So yes, we love recommending a few contractions on the toilet. Some of our repeat clients know our tricks and call us on it. 😉

#💩 #🚽

12/17/2025

A beautiful afternoon for a baby girl to be born!

12/15/2025

Yes, we attend twin births at home and the birth center! We do extra monitoring to make sure both babies are thriving throughout pregnancy and we have extra hands on deck during the birth and immediate postpartum.

Did you give birth to twins? Where do you have them?

12/14/2025

We had so much fun seeing everyone yesterday! You all tuckered Santa out! He had a nice soak in our birth tubs to prep for a busy night of Christmas deliveries!

Don’t forget to make some time for relaxation in this busy holiday season!

12/13/2025

We’re here at Full Circle Birth Center with Santa and we’re so excited to see you all!

12/13/2025

Come see us!

With Mrs. Clause and the elves!

12/10/2025

We have a couple of openings at the birth center for late-to-care clients with estimated due dates in February and March . If you’ve been thinking about an out of hospital birth, now’s a great moment to explore your options.

It’s never too late to hire a midwife—just send a message!

12/10/2025

We’re so excited to see everyone for hot cocoa and pictures with Santa!

Join us at the Birth Center on Saturday

12/09/2025

We’re feeling a bit fiesty today.

We’re grateful for overall positive experiences with transferring clients to the hospital or to higher level care with an OBGYN, but recently we’ve had some challenges.

If medical providers want their patients to trust them, they need to fix their report. They need to listen to their patients and answer their questions. They need to believe them when they say something isn’t right. They need to understand that while it may be just one more patient on their schedule, that patient is a person! A person who deserves to know what is going on with their health and their baby’s health.

People wonder why more and more families are choosing to give birth at home or in free-standing birth centers.

We know why! 🙋‍♀️They want to be treated better than our current system provides.

12/06/2025

The hay might be a problem 🙃