Gentle Beginnings Birth Center

Gentle Beginnings Birth Center Providing a warm haven where babies can be born at their own pace among family and friends.
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Certified Professional Midwives:
Michele Massey, Cheryl Gaspard, Donna Miller, Kennasha Jones, Melissa Matus, Teree Saenz, Jennifer Mozeke, and Sarah Clark

Graduate Student Midwife:
Asia Jones

Midwifery Students under Supervision:
Joy Crowhurst and Breana Caliman

Every motherhood journey deserves tenderness.There is room here for every story because Motherhood holds many seasons an...
05/10/2026

Every motherhood journey deserves tenderness.
There is room here for every story because Motherhood holds many seasons and we honor them all. 🫶

This mama rocked her birth and did THE MOST. This is her sweet new baby in an herbal bath with her. 😍 we love yall! ...
05/06/2026

This mama rocked her birth and did THE MOST. This is her sweet new baby in an herbal bath with her. 😍 we love yall!

Yes, you can laugh in labor… and it actually helps 😌• Endorphins rise (hello, natural pain relief)• Your body relaxes in...
04/26/2026

Yes, you can laugh in labor… and it actually helps 😌
• Endorphins rise (hello, natural pain relief)
• Your body relaxes instead of resists
• Oxytocin flows — helping contractions work with you, not against you

Daddy weighing his new baby girl. We love to involve the other parent all we can after the golden hour. From cutting the...
04/22/2026

Daddy weighing his new baby girl. We love to involve the other parent all we can after the golden hour. From cutting the cord to weighing baby and of course getting in that skin to skin 😍 peep the cute big brother in the back ground!

Now that's a supportive team of midwives. 😍 after birth we continue to care for you and baby by facilitating and protect...
04/21/2026

Now that's a supportive team of midwives. 😍 after birth we continue to care for you and baby by facilitating and protecting the golden hour and herbal bath. All the while following evidence based protocols to check you are both happy and healthy. We love you!

We love to make the newborn exams a family event. It's the sweetest thing! Here is midwife Michele checking out sweet ba...
04/17/2026

We love to make the newborn exams a family event. It's the sweetest thing! Here is midwife Michele checking out sweet baby's reflexes.

That eye contact 🥺😍 Newborns are born ready to recognize your face, especially from about 8–12 inches away—the perfect d...
04/09/2026

That eye contact 🥺😍

Newborns are born ready to recognize your face, especially from about 8–12 inches away—the perfect distance when they’re in your arms. Those first gazes help build connection, regulate baby’s nervous system, and begin the beautiful process of bonding.

And they don’t just recognize faces—they recognize voices too, even familiar voices they heard in the womb, like their midwife’s. Such a sweet photo of midwife Michele and a sweet baby she helped care for!

“What do you mean you’re only listening every so often?”Because with a healthy, low-risk labor, intermittent fetal heart...
04/06/2026

“What do you mean you’re only listening every so often?”

Because with a healthy, low-risk labor, intermittent fetal heart tone checks with a Doppler are often exactly what evidence supports. 🤍

• Your baby’s heartbeat is listened to regularly before, during, and after contractions
• Intermittent monitoring allows freedom to move, change positions, labor in water, eat, rest, and follow your body’s instincts
• It supports a more gentle, physiologic labor without being attached to continuous monitors
• For low-risk labor, intermittent FHT checks are considered safe and evidence-based
• Midwives are watching the whole picture — your labor pattern, your baby’s response, and how both of you are doing
• If anything changes, monitoring can always be increased

Less equipment doesn’t mean less care.
It often means more hands-on support, more freedom, and more trust in the process. ✨

Yes, our midwives will get into the shower to help you deliver your baby. 🤣🫶
04/02/2026

Yes, our midwives will get into the shower to help you deliver your baby. 🤣🫶

Happy FFFFriday. rule #1: what’s said in labor stays in labor. 😅Especially if it includes:• Threatening your husband• ...
03/27/2026

Happy FFFFriday.

rule #1: what’s said in labor stays in labor. 😅

Especially if it includes:
• Threatening your husband
• Breaking up with your doula
• Firing your midwife
• Declaring you’ll never have more children
• Crying because someone ate your granola bar
• Asking for the epidural at a home birth

The labor hormones were talking, not me. 🤍

There is a deep power in trusting your instincts during birth.Birth doesn’t always need constant direction, noise, or ha...
03/17/2026

There is a deep power in trusting your instincts during birth.

Birth doesn’t always need constant direction, noise, or hands guiding every moment.
Often, the most powerful births happen when a mother is supported enough to step fully into her own instincts.

Sometimes the only hands needed… are hers. 🤍

When a woman feels safe, undisturbed, and trusted, her body knows exactly what to do.

• 🧠 The primal brain takes over — In active labor, the thinking brain quiets and the instinctual brain leads the process.

• 🌙 Undisturbed birth supports hormone flow — Oxytocin, endorphins, and adrenaline work together to guide labor and pushing.

• ✋ Instinctive pushing is powerful — Many mothers naturally reach down, feel their baby, and guide them earthside with their own hands.

• 🤍 Hands-off support protects the flow — Sometimes the best midwifery care is quiet presence, watchful eyes, and trusting the physiology of birth.

• 🔥 Your body is not confused — It has been preparing for this moment for months.

Birth is not something that must be done to you.

It is something your body knows how to do.

And when you are supported in your power, instinct becomes the guide.

Address

1726 Chadwick Court
Hurst, TX
76054

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm

Telephone

+18175106662

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