Kristie Horton - Birth Doula & Educator

10/28/2025

I’m compilng some information for a assignment in a Midwifery Assistant Pogram. If this applies to you will you please share your experience? If not, will you please share this post for your friends to share their experiences?

If you experienced diet controlled gestational diabetes, how were you diagnosed? What diet changes worked for you? Did your GD affect when you gave birth or the size of your baby?

10/19/2025

Did you know doulas and midwives are not the same? While sometimes confused in conversations, doulas and midwives have very different roles.

A midwife can be hired instead of working with an OB/GYN for your pregnancy and birth. Sometimes, midwives work alongside OBs but still in a clinical manner to ensure the health and safety of mom and baby. Many midwives provide continuity of care, traditional birth support, and provide a more whole family, whole body, holistic support. However, their role is to keep mom and baby safe and focus on clinical care, meaning they may not be available to support with comfort measures and reassurance the entire duration of labor and birth.

A doula is in addition to your midwife or OB/GYN. Doulas do not replace any health care providers. Doulas provide continuous labor support the duration of your labor and birth. As they are not clinical, they are able to focus on your comfort and support needs regardless of how birth is unfolding.

Doulas and midwives often work together to support families but have very different roles.

10/17/2025

Working on this class and curriculum today.

09/14/2025

If you are waiting. Waiting for baby, waiting for answers, waiting for more...

Trust His Timing ❤️ ⏰️

Waiting is never easy! We want answers now, change now, breakthrough now. But God's timing is never late and never early—only perfect.

When the waiting feels heavy, remember: it is not wasted. In the stillness, He is shaping hearts, preparing paths, and weaving together what we cannot yet see.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, and it speaks of the end, and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it; because it shall certainly come, it shall not delay.
— Habakkuk 2:3

Trust the One who holds all time in His hands. 🌊✨️❤️

09/14/2025

Are you a pumping mama but feel like you are not getting enough milk from your pumps? You may have the wrong fl**ge size.

I now have fl**ge sizing kits available so that you can spend money on the correct fl**ge size alone. If you’d like to check your size let me know and we can plan a meeting.

09/08/2025

08/31/2025

There is no tired like post birth tired but the joy that comes from serving the families I get the honor of serving is so very worth it all!! The most vernixed baby that I have witnessed be born to date, 8/30/25, goes to this precious baby girl.
Vernix is a cheesy varnish that covers the baby as they emerge into the outside world. It is a microbiome that provides protection to the baby as they acclimate to the new world they have joined.
Leave it on for as long as possible. Rub it in as you hold and nurse the baby in those precious first few (12-24) hours. It acts as a blanket in addition to the heat from skin to skin to help baby regulate their body temperature. When rubbed off risks include hypothermia and hypoglycemia
Not washing the vernix immediately aides in mother-baby bonding and establishing the nursing relationship. According to Midwife 360, “One study found that delaying the baby’s initial wash by 12 hours resulted in a 166% improvement in hospital nursing success when compared to those washed within the first two hours.”
It also prevents the baby’s skin from drying out which is especially important for preterm babies who has a higher risk of abrasions.

As I remember all the benefits of this magnificent protective barrier I remember a name of God is Elohim Shomri - God is my Protector! I also think about how all creation will cry Holy! Through His design of creation He provides protection and that leaves me in complete awe of our who He is!! He is Wonderful and so worthy to be praised!!!

04/02/2025

After homeschooling my children and learning how valuable “unschooling” really is I am embarking on my own “unschooling” journey! This is allowing Holy Spirit to teach me in His timing. He knows what I need for each birth and He is never late in instructing. Even when He uses births to teach me lessons He is still right on time.
IF I go for NARM’s (National American Registry of Midwives) PEP (Portfolio Evaluation Process) program I’ve already got Phase 1 done! I’ll start compiling my portfolio soon. So if I’ve supported you in the past 10 years I’ll probably be in touch soon. 💕 If you haven’t already written a review I’d greatly appreciate if you would
Phase 2 consists of observing and assisting an established midwife. This is my current obstacle because Georgia recognizes Nurse Midwives only leaving Professional or Traditional midwives a rare gem in South Georgia. I know Abba already has this path cut out for me, without me having to leave my family or wait 2 years. I’m seeking Him, and accepting what tools He places in my hands today and trusting His perfect timing.

03/23/2025

Today, I am to share a memory of compassion, love and support from my work as a doula. This picture is a little older but speaks volumes to what I do. I get the opportunity to stand by one’s side and support and encourage them in what only they can do. No one else can do this for them. No one can take the pain from them. But they can be supported as they do one of the hardest things they will ever do in life.

03/22/2025

Why I became a doula?
The answer to this question has changed over the years. As a child I wanted to be “a baby nurse who worked with the babies after they are born” the adult term for that would be a labor and delivery nurse. Later, in middle school I was interested in midwifery. Then life happened and my path altered with it. In 2015 my first nephew was born and so was a new aspect to the desires of a little girl. I began to seek the Lord for His desires and before I knew it in 2018 I completed my certification as a doula. I realized today that even in this work it’s never been about the babies for me. It is all about the mamas!! Enough people want to hold the babies, and I do get to, but I’d much rather hold the mamas that I get the opportunities to serve!! Healthy and happy babies start with healthy and happy mommies.
This is only the surface of why I do what I do and every day and with every birth that passion burns even hotter to provide women with more and potentially better options than what is currently available.
Stay tuned this week to learn more, who knows I may even step out of my comfort zone and do a live. We will see.