Wild & Free Birth Wellness

12/18/2025

Birth has the potential to be one of the most powerful, fulfilling experiences of your life…
and yet, for so many women, it becomes a place of disempowerment, fear, or lingering trauma. 💔
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Not because your body failed —
but because your mind, support, and preparation were never centered.
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Here’s the truth I want you to hear today:
No matter what your past births looked like, you are not broken — and your next birth does not have to repeat the same story.
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Birth preparation isn’t just about positions or breathing.
It’s about rewiring fear, reclaiming trust, and anchoring yourself in your God-given strength.
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That’s exactly why I created The Labor Blueprint.
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This mini-course is designed to help you:
✨ Release fear instead of carrying it into labor
✨ Build confidence rooted in physiology, faith, and intuition
✨ Feel mentally steady, prepared, and supported — no matter how birth unfolds
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For $17, you get immediate access to:
🤍 The Labor Blueprint Video Course
📖 The Labor Blueprint Workbook
🔥 Fear Release & Reframing Exercises
📝 The Labor Cheat Sheet
🧠 Birth Visualization Worksheet
🌿 Our Cells Remember Birth teaching
✨ Bonus Resource Library to deepen your preparation
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This is gentle, powerful preparation you can do right now — from home — at your own pace.
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If you’re ready to walk into birth feeling grounded instead of fearful,
prepared instead of uncertain,
and connected to your body instead of fighting it…
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👇 Comment PREPARED and I’ll send you the link.
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With so much love,
Brandy 🤍

12/16/2025

LET’S TALK: DELAYED CORD CLAMPING 🩸
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Delayed cord clamping is a practice many providers now recommend, but not everyone is told *why* it matters.
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After birth, the umbilical cord doesn’t suddenly become useless. For several minutes, it continues to pulse — delivering oxygen-rich blood, stem cells, iron, and vital nutrients to your baby as they transition to life outside the womb.
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That transition matters. A lot.
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✨ Research shows delayed cord clamping can:
🩸 Reduce the risk of anemia
🩸 Increase hemoglobin levels at birth
🩸 Improve iron stores for months after birth
🩸 Support healthy brain development
🩸 Decrease the need for blood transfusions
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So the big question I hear all the time is…
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**How long should you wait? ⏳**
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Traditionally, “delayed cord clamping” in hospital settings means waiting 30–60 seconds.
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However, newer research suggests that waiting 5–6 minutes may provide *additional* benefits — particularly for the developing brain (NIH, 2019).
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Many midwives and physiological birth practitioners also follow the wisdom of the body and recommend waiting until:
🤍 the cord turns white (instead of blue or purple)
🤍 and stops pulsing on its own
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This allows the placental transfusion to complete naturally, just as it was designed to do.
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As a holistic doula, birthkeeper, and childbirth educator, I love helping families understand *why* practices like delayed cord clamping matter — and how to confidently advocate for them in their birth plans.
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You are allowed to ask for more time.
You are allowed to wait.
And evidence continues to support that waiting longer can be both safe and deeply beneficial for your baby.
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Follow along for more birth education rooted in physiology, autonomy, and trust 🤍

12/13/2025

12/12/2025

‼️WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS‼️

As doulas, we go into MANY hospitals.🏥

Recently, after a provider was caught in malpractice via video, we noticed these signs got plastered up EVERYWHERE 😠

The new policy is that no videos during a birth are allowed. No pictures during pushing are allowed. No medical staff can be in any media and it is up to the doctor’s discretion whether any photos will be permitted at all.

BUT HERE IS THE KICKER…

I personally called and asked to present this policy, BUT IT IS NOT WRITTEN and they stated that they do not have to present a policy WITHOUT A COURT ORDER…um…what?!

This is problematic on MANY levels.

1. If you have been watching TikTok/Instagram recently, there are hundreds of videos going up of women being mistreated during their birth. Having no photos/videos allowed, ultimately would not have provided these women with evidence that they later used in a court of law to seek justice.

2. I have many clients who want birth photography, and with the amount of hospitals that are beginning to implement this policy, there might be many clients who arrive to their birth, realizing that they can no longer capture this transformative moment. A service that they paid for in advance, may no longer be available at a moments notice.

3. Many of my clients want videos as tokens to remember their birth, this is no longer something I can guarantee, as non-compliance with hospital policy, even if those policies aren’t presented)

4. And here’s what most people don’t realize: Michigan is a one-party consent state. This means you are legally allowed to record audio or video as long as one person in the conversation (you) consents. Hospital staff do not have to consent for you to record your own medical care.🤳

5. Having it be up to the doctors discretion creates a hierarchy of power within the birth space, needing to ask permission to take a picture of you and your own baby. 😤

So why would a hospital suddenly try to implement a blanket “no video, no photos, no documentation whatsoever” rule—especially when the law doesn’t support that level of control? I really cant say, but here’s what I do know…

➡️ If your hospital is scrambling to shut down all recording, you should immediately ask yourself why.🤨
➡️ If your hospital refuses to show you a written policy, that’s a massive red flag.🚩
➡️ If your hospital “doesn’t allow video,” you should be deeply concerned, because truly evidence-based, patient-centered care has nothing to hide. (Ask any midwife or OB who practices evidence based care, they will always say they have nothing to hide)🫣

Evidence-based hospitals welcome transparency.
Evidence-based hospitals empower families.
Evidence-based hospitals don’t fear documentation—they use it to improve outcomes.

If your birth space suddenly becomes a place where cameras are banned, questions aren’t answered, and policies “exist” but can’t be shown…
you deserve to stop and say:
“What are they trying to protect—me, or themselves?”

Birth is your medical care.
Birth is your story.
And you deserve to document it.

(To add nuance, one argument has been that this policy protects other patient’s privacy, and helps to enforce HIPAA laws. However, if you are in a birth suite and not sharing it with another patient, other patient’s information should not be in your room, and while you’re pushing a baby out, you are likely not exposing or risking another patient’s privacy)



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12/11/2025

A year ago, the Lord whispered something I didn’t fully understand at the time.
A call to go deeper… not into more knowledge,
but into integration.
Into listening.
Into slowing down long enough to hear Him speak between the breaths.

I stepped into Hearthmother Journey thinking I was simply refining my skills.
Instead, the Lord opened a door into a year of consecration.
A year of letting Him tend to the parts of me that had been stretched,
tired,
over-giving,
and ready for renewal.

This journey wasn’t neat or tidy.
It met me in the raw places—
the ones I used to hide,
the ones still healing,
the ones He wanted to breathe new life into.

Month by month,
lesson by lesson,
I found myself being shaped—
softened in some ways, strengthened in others.
The Hearthmother path asked me to quiet the noise,
lean into discernment,
and trust that the Spirit truly does guide each step
when we’re willing to slow down and listen.

Holding this graduation badge today,
it doesn’t feel like an achievement—
it feels like a testimony.
A reminder of everything the Lord refined in me this year:
my trust,
my surrender,
my reverence for birth as a place God meets women
in power and in peace.

This work has always been sacred to me,
but now I carry it with a deeper stillness.
A steadier fire.
A renewed devotion to walking beside autonomous, faith-led mothers
who are ready to reclaim birth as God designed—
joyful, sovereign, embodied,
and anchored in His presence.

I’m grateful.
I’m humbled.
And I’m stepping forward with open hands,
ready for whatever He has next.

12/02/2025

I had the sweetest honor of sitting down again with my dear friend Karissa, the heart and voice behind The Birth Tide Podcast, to share the newest chapter in my birth journey.

This episode feels especially tender to me — a story woven with surrender, endurance, and an even deeper trust in God’s timing and the way He designed my body.

We talked about navigating the longest pregnancy I’ve ever experienced, and my first round of true start-and-stop prodromal labor. It was a refining season that stretched me, strengthened me, and reminded me again that birth is holy ground.

If you’ve followed my journey, you might remember the rest of my stories on an earlier episode — my cesarean, my hospital VBAC, my HBAC with midwives, and the unassisted HBACs that followed. Each birth has shaped the woman and birthkeeper I am today, and sharing this next chapter felt sacred.

If you want to listen, comment PODCAST and I’ll send you the link. You can find it on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you love to listen.

So grateful for you, Karissa!

📸 :: Sister Birth :: Holistic, Faith-Filled Home Birth

12/02/2025

I had the sweetest honor of sitting down again with my dear friend Karissa, the heart and voice behind The Birth Tide Podcast, to share the newest chapter in my birth journey.

This episode feels especially tender to me — a story woven with surrender, endurance, and an even deeper trust in God’s timing and the way He designed my body.

We talked about navigating the longest pregnancy I’ve ever experienced, and my first round of true start-and-stop prodromal labor. It was a refining season that stretched me, strengthened me, and reminded me again that birth is holy ground.

If you’ve followed my journey, you might remember the rest of my stories on an earlier episode — my cesarean, my hospital VBAC, my HBAC with midwives, and the unassisted HBACs that followed. Each birth has shaped the woman and birthkeeper I am today, and sharing this next chapter felt sacred.

If you want to listen, comment PODCAST and I’ll send you the link. You can find it on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you love to listen.

So grateful for you, Karissa!

📸 :: Sister Birth :: Holistic, Faith-Filled Home Birth

11/27/2025

I’ve been sitting quietly with everything unfolding over the past few days—not reacting, not rushing to speak, just listening.

First to the Holy Spirit.
Then to my own heart.

When I finished reading the article on Free Birth Society that’s been circulating, I didn’t feel anger. I didn’t feel the urge to defend or debate.

What I felt was grief… and clarity.

Because what’s being argued on the surface—
freebirth vs. midwives vs. hospitals—
isn’t really the heartbeat of what’s happening.

This was never truly about birth location.

Somewhere along the way, the conversation shifted from supporting women to protecting a philosophy.

And that’s where harm is born—
not in the choice itself,
but in the pressure to stay loyal to it.

Women are no longer asking,
“Where do I feel peace?” but instead,
“What will people think if I change my mind?”

And suddenly, birth becomes a performance instead of a partnership.

There’s a moment in every woman’s journey where she realizes that birth is not a place or a method—it’s a becoming.

For a long time, I thought the right setting would save me.
I believed if I just changed the location, or the provider, or the plan, then I would finally feel safe… finally feel powerful.

But the deeper I walked with the Lord, the more He revealed a truth that wrecked me in the holiest way:

Power doesn’t come from a place.
It comes from partnership.

Not with a system.
Not with a philosophy.
But with the Holy Spirit—
moment by moment, breath by breath.

Radical responsibility is not becoming self-reliant.
It is becoming God-reliant.
It means we depend on Jesus—depend on His guiding light—and go where the Holy Spirit leads.

Because here is the truth I stand on:
I do not trust birth.
I trust God.
I respect birth.

And if Yahweh is impressing a decision with a sound mind on a woman’s heart, we are called to listen to that quiet knowing—that discernment.
He is a lamp unto our feet, and He will guide each step, each decision.

And I need to say this clearly:

I do not believe freebirth is for every woman.
I do not believe homebirth is for every woman.
And I do not believe hospital birth is for every woman.

Women must birth where they feel safest.

When we cling to an identity—
“I’m a freebirther,”
“I only birth at home,”
“hospital is the safest place”—
we risk turning something sacred into an idol.

God never asked us to worship a model of care.
He asked us to worship Him.

Because the problem isn’t traditional midwives,
licensed midwives,
birthkeepers,
or doulas.

The problem is when a woman goes against her intuition to make a decision that feels acceptable to others—even when the Holy Spirit is leading her somewhere else.

There is no single righteous path.
There is only obedience.

And obedience looks different for every woman,
every birth,
every moment.

For some, the holiest path is a birth pool by candlelight.
For others, it’s a quiet hospital room with a redeemed experience.
For others still, it’s a planned cesarean covered in prayer and peace.

The victory is not in how you birth—
it’s in who you are partnered with.

Because a woman who hears God in her birth will hear Him for the rest of her motherhood. And that changes everything.

Psalm 119:105 says,

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

A lamp doesn’t show the whole road.
It shows one step.

Radical responsibility isn’t choosing once and clinging to it at all costs.
It is choosing with Him—again and again and again.

Not from fear.
Not from pressure.
Not from loyalty to a plan…

…but from partnership with the Holy Spirit.

This is the ground I stand on.

Stay Wild & Free,
-Brandy

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📸:: Sister Birth :: Holistic, Faith-Filled Home Birth

11/23/2025

Protect Traditional Midwifery.
We’re next.

They’ve been picking us off quietly for decades, one birth center at a time, one midwife at a time, one family at a time.

Now the squeeze is out in the open. Bills dressed up as “safety” stripping out whole lines of practice.

Hospitals shuttering maternity units while pretending it’s a staffing glitch.

Licensing schemes written by people who’ve never held a woman’s hand through transition dictating who is “allowed” to catch a baby.

Look around. Every closure, every “pause,” every new rule is the same message on repeat:

Birth belongs to the system. Not to women. Not to families. Not to the midwives who’ve carried this work for centuries.

Traditional midwifery is the last free corner left in American maternity care.

The only place where birth isn’t a commodity. The only place where outcomes still beat the system’s numbers.
And yes
because of that

we’re a threat.

If you think they’ll leave us alone, you’re not paying attention.

We’re next.
Unless we stand up, organize, and refuse to disappear.

Protect the keepers.
Protect the families who choose us.
Protect the right to birth outside a broken machine.

11/22/2025

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So for a short time, I’m giving $100 off my physiological childbirth education course, Fearless Birth Sanctuary — the space where women learn to trust their bodies, anchor into God’s design, and prepare for a peaceful, physiological birth.

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11/22/2025

If motherhood had a starter pack, this would be it ✨

Magnesium Cream + Spray for deep sleep, restless legs, and those “I just need my body to chill” moments

NORA Tea for nourishing pregnancy minerals and postpartum recovery

Wild Yam Cream for cyclical + hormonal support

Postpartum Herbal Bath Blend for healing skin, soothing stitches, and sacred first-week softness

These are the little things that make a big difference in how supported you feel in pregnancy + postpartum…
but the real game-changer?

✨ Feeling confident, informed, and unafraid heading into birth. ✨

So for a short time, I’m giving $100 off my physiological childbirth education course, Fearless Birth Sanctuary — the space where women learn to trust their bodies, anchor into God’s design, and prepare for a peaceful, physiological birth.

If you’ve been waiting for a sign… this is your gentle nudge 🩷

Proverbs 31 Apothecary
https://www.wildandfreebirth.com/shop

Fearless Birth Sanctuary
https://www.wildandfreebirth.com/fearless-birth-sanctuary