Born Free Birthing

05/17/2025

💬 Accountability matters.
But HB 4553 is not accountability—it’s bureaucracy.
🎯 Real safety comes from collaboration, not control.
Midwives deserve better. So do Texas families.
📍 https://buff.ly/7wYJW7K

05/10/2025

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Motherhood is a beautiful contradiction—a constant balancing act between exhaustion and joy, chaos and calm, selflessness and deep personal growth. It demands everything: your energy, your patience, your identity—yet somehow, it gives back even more. There are days that stretch too long and nights that never end, but within those moments are quiet miracles: a smile, a hug, the sound of your child’s laugh. It’s not always graceful, and it’s rarely easy, but the love is unshakable, fierce, and unlike anything else. Motherhood breaks you open and builds you back stronger—with a heart that now beats for someone else.

Words : Ever Evolving
Artist: Myfoxyart

12/12/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17wRiebQod/?mibextid=WC7FNe

First study of twin home birth published with PLOS ONE!
To read & download (free PDF): bit.ly/twinhomebirth

Kanab, UT, December 11, 2024, 2:00 pm EST -

This study follows 100 sets of twins attended at home by an obstetrician, the first publication looking exclusively at twin home birth. Overall, 91.3% of women gave birth vaginally, compared a national average of 25.2% for twin pregnancies. Most women with twin pregnancies in a hospital setting have few options but cesarean section, even though the evidence shows no benefit to surgery for the majority of cases. This study demonstrates that a home setting that supports physiological birth can yield excellent outcomes and a high vaginal birth rate.

The authors comment:

"Properly selected, motivated twin mothers can successfully birth in a home setting, if they have a supportive environment, a skilled practitioner, and a competent team of birth workers. Vaginal birth of twins, regardless of presentation (breech or cephalic) or birth location, is a reasonable option with excellent success rates in skilled hands and should be offered. Residency training programs should reinstitute the teaching of these skills to ensure that women desiring hospital births are not pushed outside the system. Professional medical organizations and state legislatures should recognize the value and dedication of midwifery care in the community and stop limiting choices, under the guise of safety, that rightfully belong to the pregnant woman. The goal should be to create a nurturing environment, where each woman is treated with dignity, compassion, and respect by a skilled twin practitioner and where her choices are not just tolerated but enthusiastically supported."

To read the study: bit.ly/twinhomebirth

If you would like more information about this publication, please call 805-455-8618 or email admin@birthinginstincts.com. For more information about the authors and their organizations, please visit Birthing Instincts (http://www.birthinginstincts.com) and Breech Without Borders (http://www.breechwithoutborders.org).

Contact: Raquel Hernandez
Phone: 805-455-8618
Email: admin@birthinginstincts.com

You are invited to read and comment on the paper.

07/26/2024

⭐ Group HypnoBirthing classes starting Monday August 19th online via Zoom from the comfort of your own home!

Over the span of 5 weeks we will cover the following topics:

✅Incredible breathing, relaxation, and massage techniques
✅Preparing the partner to be the best possible support person
✅How to eliminate the Fear Tension Pain Cycle
✅Hallmarks of the birthing process, from the onset of birth right to the 4th trimester
✅The importance of informed consent
✅Releasing anxiety and fears about child birth
✅Bonding with your beautiful baby before during and after the birth
✅Breastfeeding, the 4th trimester and setting yourself up for a healing postpartum

This group class will fill fast, reserve your space today! www.Bornfreebirthing.com

03/11/2024

✨The placenta kitchen will be closed from June 1st to July 31st.

☘️It’s that time of year again, for my annual leave. I will be spending 6 weeks at home in Ireland with my gorgeous 3 children, husband, family and the very best of friends and the remaining 2 weeks getting my children ready and settled for the new school year ahead.

☘️This will be the 4th summer we have spent in Ireland and every year the trips get better and better. Every year the kids feel more connected to my village, their cousins and aunts and uncles-this is priceless.

☘️I will still be taking bookings for Aug and will be still available for emails etc. I just won’t be physically processing placentas for the time I’m away.

💕Thank you to all my lovely clients whose kindness and understanding as mothers and working women has meant the world to me.

☘️It’s only a vacation, I’ll be back re-energized, full of gusto and ready to support you all in your beautiful postpartum journeys on August 1st.