A Birth At Home

02/23/2026

Welcome Baby Girl 🌸
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The grand finale for this amazing family! She came quickly and was welcomed into loving arms.
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Last picture features her true knot in her cord 🪢✨ only occurring in about 1% of pregnancies.
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02/03/2026

"Do you go to the hospital after?"

Home birthers raise your hand if you've gotten this question from confused family and friends 🙋‍♀️

LOL no and that's the whole point.

The literal BEST part about home birth is the amazing & comprehensive postpartum care that is provided in the comfort of your home.

Not only do you not have to leave home, but you don't even have to leave your BED.

The training, core competencies & legal scope of practice for licensed midwives in MN & WI cover all the exact same mother/baby aftercare that takes place in hospital L&D rooms.

After a baby is born at home, immediate APGARs are taken at 1 & 5 minutes and the heartbeat is checked, all while the baby is on your chest. If baby requires any stimulation, breathing support or other assistance that will be provided, usually with the cord intact & baby on the chest unless full resuscitation is needed (rare).

The midwives will assess & if necessary control any blood loss, monitor the birthing person’s vitals & facilitate cutting the cord when the family is ready. From there baby will spend the first several hours of life skin-to-skin to promote bonding, temperature/breathing regulation and breastfeeding.

Once everyone has settled after birth, usually after any lacerations have been repaired and the birthing person has been to the bathroom, fed, bathed & tucked into bed, the midwives will begin the newborn procedures & exam with the family according to their wishes.

This includes:

🌿Anatomy, reflexes and heartbeat check

🌿Weight/length/head circumference

🌿Vitamin K shot

🌿Pulse oximeter checks

🌿Heel prick/metabolic screen

🌿CCHD screen

🌿Cord blood testing (for Rh- folks with a partner who is +)

🌿Several temp checks

🌿Eye ointment

And in the following days and weeks, the midwife team will return, to do things like:

🌿The hearing screen

🌿Additional BP/fundal/temp checks on the birthing person

🌿Heartrate, diaper output and weight checks on the baby

🌿Assess breastfeeding progress

🌿 Draw blood & run labs on the birthing person

🌿Check perineal healing

🌿Rhogam if necessary/consented to

🌿Screen for postpartum mood disorders

🌿Monitor overall recovery and adjustment

📷: Birth Made Beautiful ~ Kara Jo Prestrud

01/16/2026

I’m sure we’ve all heard Marilyn’s stories of doing births in tents, barns, cars, and all sorts of unique places! Well we can officially mark a train cart birth off of our list! 😉

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A glorious VBAC to start the year of 2026! Home birth wasn’t their first choice, but with the restrictions we deal within our local community it encouraged them to seek different options. Surrounded by her loved ones, and her birth team this momma welcomed her fourth baby girl into the world. 🤍

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12/31/2025

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12/24/2025

✨SURPRISE BREECH ➡️ C-Section✨
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I’m so thankful to be able to share this! At 41 weeks, we arrived to a birth that was progressing quickly & we expected a baby very shortly after arrival. Our supplies were set up, 10cm dilated, & no time to set up a birth pool. Her water broke & we made our way to a spot to catch baby - except all of a sudden labor slowed dramatically. Contractions spaced. With the next contraction - meconium. 10 mins later the realization of baby being breech & confirmation. There was no head waiting to descend, baby’s bottom was coming first! We called for an additional team member, disclosed all the risks, options, and received consent from both mom & dad - they wanted to try to deliver at home first. However, despite so much strength and effort baby was just not coming down. The hard decision to transfer was made and baby girl joined the world soon after.
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The other amazing part of what we do, is switching rolls at the drop of a hat. We build trust with our families & in this case - their sweet little boy joined us for a lunch date while we waited for sister. A rebozo turned baby carrier, tons of French fries, & a vanilla milkshake to celebrate! 🎉
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This is what midwifery is about - giving options, building trust, & doing all that we can to help you achieve your birth without being afraid to call it when things aren’t working. No emergency, just change of plans with the support of the team you’ve had along the way.
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Congratulations 🎉
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12/24/2025

✨ A beautiful VBAC to end the year ✨ Welcome Baby Boy!
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VBAC consultations are filled with all the consent, risks, rewards, prior birth stories…we spend 10 months working through fears, discussing the excitement, and at some point it’s all surrendered as we wait for baby to arrive. We monitor baby a little closer, check vitals a few extra times, but ultimately you are treated as a normal laboring woman bringing your baby into this world 🤎🫶🏻
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Congratulations 🙌🏻🎉
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12/19/2025

Welcome Baby Boy 🤎
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12/18/2025

Welcome earthside sweet girl ✨💫 and Happy day of birth to this beautiful mama!
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These photos tell the story of presence, connection, grounding touch, and unwavering support from the very first contraction to the first breath.
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The most powerful birth tool isn’t found in a bag or a class—it’s your partner.
A steady hand.
A calm voice.
Someone who knows you deeply enough to hold the space when things get intense.
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Research shows continuous emotional and physical support in labor can shorten birth and reduce the need for interventions. At home, loving partner support becomes comfort, safety, and one of the most effective tools for managing labor. ✨🤍
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12/14/2025

✨✨10 lb HBAC✨
Congratulations to this amazing warrior who birthed her TEN pound sweet baby girl at home. 🙌🏻 YOU DID IT!
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10/23/2025

✨Birth starts here✨
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It begins in trust, in laughter shared over the kitchen table, in gentle heart tones echoing through your living room 🤎, your earthside babies watching, your partner learning to feel for their baby. This is the beauty of midwifery — care that meets you where you are 🕊️🏡
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10/06/2025

THIS is how we make change. Our small towns, our small but mighty practice - had the opportunity to share our experiences & have two amazing young women shadow us for a day where we got to have REAL talk about being a midwife in Rural AZ. Our clients also were able to share thier why, and how it’s impacted them.

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Within the swaths of maternity care deserts across the Southwest are some alternative birthing options — like through a midwife, and not in a hospital. With drastic cuts to healthcare across the country in states that were already struggling, this story is a part of a broader conversation regardin...

09/13/2025

What a beautiful start to the fall season 🍂
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Two 9+ pound baby boys were welcomed into the world in the comfort of their home this week. Every birth story is different, but these two weren’t so far off. Both were third-time mommas who went to 41+ weeks, opted for a water birth, and had a precipitous labor after sunrise.
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We all enjoyed our little break off call, but we are so ready to get back to it. 🤍🏠

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