Nora Elizalde - Certified Nurse Midwife

01/14/2026

01/08/2026

Today the staff at Genesis Family Health made me feel loved and appreciated. Thank you all for the wonderful birthday wishes and gifts!! Love you all! ❤️

12/21/2025

FELICES FIESTAS!!!🎉

Happy Holidays! 🎄⭐️ We will be open on Monday, Dec. 22nd but closed for the rest of the week. Our regular hours resume on Monday, Dec. 29th.

12/21/2025

A Cesarean section is the only major surgeries in the world where:

• Five to seven layers of tissue — skin, fat, fascia, muscle, and uterus — are carefully opened
• A new life is lifted into the world, sometimes urgently, sometimes without warning
• And within hours, the patient is expected to stand, walk, and care for another human being

Six hours after surgery — while stitches, staples, and deep internal incisions still burn — a mother is asked to:

🍼 Feed her baby
🚼 Change diapers
❤️ Bond through exhaustion
🛏 Sit upright despite sharp abdominal pain

And while the incision is still fresh, her body is simultaneously battling:

⚡ Uterine contractions as it shrinks back
⚡ Intense hormonal shifts
⚡ Breast milk production
⚡ Emotional overwhelm
⚡ Severe sleep deprivation

Still… she keeps going.

Even when:
💔 Laughing hurts
💔 Sneezing hurts
💔 Standing hurts
💔 Sleeping hurts
💔 Breathing pulls at the wound

She keeps going.

Not because it’s easy.
Not because she feels ready.
But because someone depends on her.

And that — is strength.

We shared this to raise awareness about the physical and emotional reality of C-section recovery, a reality that is too often minimized, joked about, or dismissed as “the easy way.”

There is nothing easy about major abdominal surgery followed by immediate caregiving.

To every C-section mother reading this:
You did not choose the easy path.
You chose the necessary one.
You chose life, safety, and love.

Your scar is not weakness.
✨ It is proof of survival. ✨

Planned or unplanned.
Calm or urgent.
After labor or without warning.

You carried life.
You endured surgery.
You rose before you healed.

This story is shared to raise important awareness about maternal recovery, surgical birth, and the silent resilience of mothers whose strength is often overlooked.

❤️ You are strong.
❤️ You are enough.
❤️ You are a warrior.

📚 VERIFIED SOURCES (REAL & TRUSTED)

• Mayo Clinic — Cesarean Delivery & Recovery
• Cleveland Clinic — Post-C-Section Healing
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)

12/21/2025

Amen

Preparemos el corazón en familia

Jesús está cerca.
No llega con ruido ni prisa,
llega con amor, con ternura,
y espera encontrar un lugar en nuestro hogar.

Preparar el corazón en familia
no es tener todo perfecto,
es sentarnos juntos, mirarnos con paciencia,
perdonarnos, escucharnos
y abrir espacio para Dios en lo cotidiano.

En cada gesto sencillo —
una oración compartida,
una mesa unida,
una palabra amable—
vamos acomodando el pesebre del corazón.

Que esta espera nos enseñe
a amar más despacio,
a valorar la presencia del otro
y a recordar que Jesús nace
donde hay fe, unidad y esperanza.

Porque cuando una familia se une para amar,
orar y confiar,
Jesús ya está entrando por la puerta.

12/20/2025

12/13/2025

Celebrating Our Lady of Guadalupe 💕

🙏 Oración de un(a) Enfermer@ a la Virgen de Guadalupe ❤️

Virgen Santísima de Guadalupe, Madre del verdadero Dios y Madre nuestra,
me acerco a tu imagen sagrada con un corazón humilde, cansado pero lleno de fe.

A mí, tu hij@ que sirve desde el cuidado y la enfermería,
concédeme la paciencia, la fortaleza y la sabiduría
para atender con amor, vigilar con responsabilidad
y acompañar con entrega a quienes sufren.

Que mis manos sean extensión de tu ternura,
que mis ojos sepan ver el dolor silencioso
y que mis palabras lleven calma, esperanza y dignidad.

Ayúdame a cuidar cada vida como un regalo sagrado,
a tratar a cada paciente como un hermano, como una hermana,
aun en los turnos largos, el cansancio y la incertidumbre.

Cuando mis fuerzas se agoten y el dolor sea difícil de sostener,
recuérdame que no estoy sol@,
que tú caminas conmigo entre pasillos, guardias y desvelos.

Cúbrenos con tu manto bendito,
protege a mis pacientes, a mis compañeros y a mi familia,
y guía siempre mi vocación por el camino del amor, la fe y el servicio.

Amén ❤️

12/11/2025

📢 We will be closed this Friday, December 12 for our all-staff meeting. Our locations will reopen as usual on Monday, December 15.

11/27/2025

11/27/2025

May you have a happy and blessed day!