Mountain Sea Midwifery and Wellness LLC

08/14/2025

Look at this stunning bouquet that was gifted by a client today! Most of it came from her garden 💖

07/31/2025

This study is to examine the effect of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 and Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14 taken orally before bedtime on Group B Streptococc…

06/19/2025

Happy Birthday X3 this week! Edit : x4 😆

06/03/2025

06/02/2025

“At least you have a healthy baby.”⁠
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If you’ve given birth and felt dismissed by those words, you’re not alone. Because what that sentence really says is: your experience doesn’t matter.⁠
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That your pain, your fear, your body, your voice—all of it is secondary.⁠
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Too often, that one sentence becomes a lid placed over a mother’s trauma. A way to hush her pain and shrink her story. But birth is never “just one day.” It imprints itself into our bodies, our nervous systems, our memories. And for 1 in 3 women in the U.S., that imprint is traumatic.⁠
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For 1 in 6, the symptoms are so severe they qualify for PTSD. Not sadness. Not the “baby blues.” Actual trauma. And still, we’re told to be grateful. To move on. To focus on the baby.⁠
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Birth trauma doesn’t always stem from emergencies or complications. It often stems from how a woman is treated:⁠
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➡️ being ignored⁠
➡️ coerced into decisions⁠
➡️ touched without consent⁠
➡️ stripped of her autonomy⁠
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And the ripple effects can be devastating—impacting bonding, postpartum mental health, and even leading to su***de, the leading cause of maternal death in the U.S.⁠
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So no, “a healthy baby” is not the only outcome that matters.⁠
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The mother matters, too. Her body. Her voice. Her trauma. Her joy. Her healing. She is more than a vessel. She is the center.⁠
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If you’re preparing for birth—or supporting someone who is—you deserve more. You deserve informed, empowered, whole-person care.⁠
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The Mama Pathway is my complete birth prep course, created to change this—to offer education, empowerment, and a path forward for expecting parents and those healing from past births. It’s rooted in 40+ years of experience as a midwife, MD, and mother.⁠
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Because a truly healthy birth means the baby and the mother emerge whole. You deserve that.⁠
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💛 Learn more and enroll at the link below.
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If you’ve ever been told “at least you have a healthy baby,” how did that land for you? I’d love to hear your story—or simply hold space for it in the comments below.

https://avivaromm.com/mama-pathway/

05/02/2025

I embrace the present moment and trust that it is exactly where I need to be.

04/23/2025

Hey Homer! This is happening tomorrow.

04/19/2025

This “new” recommendation sounds familiar 🤔. It’s so similar to the Midwifery Model of Care 😅.

ACOG is recommending a more tailored approach to prenatal care delivery. New guidance encourages giving pregnant patients the flexibility to design a care plan with their ob-gyn or other maternity care professional using shared decision-making to address their medical needs, preferences, and the social and structural determinants of health that often affect patient outcomes. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4jnIu5u

04/14/2025

“When compared with land birth, water birth does not appear to increase the risk of most maternal and neonatal complications. Like any other delivery method, water birth has its unique considerations and potential risks, which health care providers and expectant parents should evaluate thoroughly. However, with proper precautions in place, water birth can be a reasonable choice for mothers and newborns, in facilities equipped to conduct water births safely.”

It’s truly amazing sometimes to see how long it takes organizations like these to catch up on things midwives have been doing for so many years!

AJOG Expert Review in Labor: Water birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis of maternal and neonatal outcomes https://ow.ly/nr7O50R9Nzi

04/10/2025

This video provides details on a large U.S. study showing that with proper precautions, low-risk home births are as safe as births in accredited birth centers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hnM98PVD8
The key takeaway for me is that the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists disapproves of home births on grounds they aren’t as safe as hospital births. They don’t object, though, to births in accredited birth centers. (See ""Obstetric Care Consensus #9: Levels of Maternal Care"" https://bit.ly/4l97izj ) But if ACOG accepts that birth center births are safe, and home births are shown to be equally safe, it logically follows that ACOG’s position on home births isn’t supported.

For more on the home birth controversy, check out: https://hencigoer.com/out-of-hospital-birth/