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01/11/2025

Seasons of patience offer many magical gifts.

It takes patience to allow the body to conceive, nourish a growing baby, go into labor naturally and right on time. The gifts may be finding peace within patience, gathering strength to move through discomfort, plenty of time for birth and postpartum education to receive the support you deserve, deepening intuitive and spiritual relationships with God, your baby, your partner. 9-10 months is a generous amount of time to explore all there is to receive 🙏🏽

What can we do during a season of patience when it gets hard? It is simple, but may be easier said than done. Some ingredients may be to..

❃ Trust every step of the way, including the obstacles and detours of our minds and physical lives.

❃ Stay open and curious when these things arise. What if it’s all working itself out for your unique, divine path? It is!

❃ Have deep faith in God’s perfect plan for your life.

I often wonder what I can lean into and learn about myself during these times. Being a baby student of midwifery, I understand God’s miracles must come together in order to lead me on this path. Focusing on Him and all he does in my life on a daily basis has that clear ♥️

My family and I just went to Ireland and I gratefully experienced many inspirations on our trip. This art in the dining room being one of them 💚🇮🇪

04/26/2024

Pregnant mothers, couples and support people 🩷 I’m teaching a 3-class childbirth education series end of June-July. Whether you are early in your pregnancy or expecting in July, it’s never too early or late to continue learning about the beauty and reality of this sacred experience. There are many choices that arise and I’d be honored to help you prepare. Please feel free to reach out with any questions! 🥰

10/05/2023

NJ Natural Childbirth Education ✨

Mamas, you are welcome to come alone, but please feel free to bring your birth partner! Whether it be a partner, sister or doula. It is beneficial for all! 🥰 Especially the hands-on support practice.

If you are a doula referring one of your families, I offer a referral discount towards childbirth education and Reiki sessions. 💛

09/10/2023

07/17/2023

Prenatal Love; the heart of Traditional Midwifery.

One of the reasons I am drawn to traditional midwifery is to preserve the woman to woman connection that is totally lost in our modern maternal healthcare system.

To me, there is nothing more awe-inspiring than witnessing a pregnant mama fully in her body, and so ready for the mystery of birth.

Pictured: Thank you dearly for allowing us to honor you this weekend 🙏🏼 It was such a privilege to palpate your belly, measure fundal height and listen to your growing baby and
placenta! You are an absolute glowing goddess 💛✨ In the second photo, I am listening to the ocean whooshing of Amanda's placenta, and can also hear her heartbeat 🫶 The fetoscope is an amazing tool as you can truly get a sense of the placement of placenta, cord and baby's positioning.

📸 Key, thank you so much for capturing this beautiful day for us all! This was the first time I have ever done this. Your shots are GORGEOUS, my friend! ♥️

06/16/2023

“Your breast milk continues to change to meet the nutritional needs of your growing child. It provides crucial immunities, enzymes and vitamins that your child may not get from solid foods, ensuring he or she is as healthy as possible. Breast milk can also be a cure-all for many bugs your child may catch, especially if he or she is sharing germs with other kids at daycare or on play dates.”

The benefits of breast-feeding beyond infancy for a child include:

✨Balanced nutrition. Breast milk is considered the gold standard for infant nutrition. There's no known age at which breast milk is considered to become nutritionally insignificant for a child.

✨Boosted immunity. As long as you breast-feed, the cells, hormones and antibodies in your breast milk will continue to bolster your child's immune system.

The benefits of breast-feeding beyond infancy for a mother include:

✨Reduced risk of certain illnesses. Breast-feeding for 12 months or more cumulatively in life has been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes.

Source (words): MAYOCLINIC
Source (content): Dewey 2001

Other Info: ⤵️

“Breast milk continues to provide substantial amounts of key nutrients well beyond the first year of life, especially protein, fat, and most vitamins.”
— Dewey 2001

Studies done in rural Bangladesh have shown that breastmilk continues to be an important source of vitamin A in the second and third year of life.
— Persson 1998

“Human milk in the second year postpartum contained significantly higher concentrations of total protein, lactoferrin, lysozyme and Immunoglobulin A, than milk bank samples, and significantly lower concentrations of zinc, calcium, iron and oligosaccharides.”
— Perrin 2016

Breastfeeding toddlers between the ages of one and three have been found to have fewer illnesses, illnesses of shorter duration, and lower mortality rates (Mølbak 1994, van den Bogaard 1991, Gulick 1986).

A couple of studies have shown a positive relationship between longer breastfeeding duration and social development.
— Duazo 2010, Baumgartner 1984
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05/29/2023

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By: This Blew Up My Mind
“When pregnant, the cells of the baby migrate into the mothers bloodstream and then circle back into the baby, it’s called “fetal-maternal microchimerism”.⁠

For 41 weeks, the cells circulate and merge backwards and forwards, and after the baby is born, many of these cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving a permanent imprint in the mothers tissues, bones, brain, and skin, and often stay there for decades. Every single child a mother has afterwards will leave a similar imprint on her body, too.

Even if a pregnancy doesn't go to full term or if you have an abortion, these cells still migrate into your bloodstream.

Research has shown that if a mother's heart is injured, fetal cells will rush to the site of the injury and change into different types of cells that specialize in mending the heart.
The baby helps repair the mother, while the mother builds the baby.

How cool is that?
This is often why certain illnesses vanish while pregnant.

It’s incredible how mothers bodies protect the baby at all costs, and the baby protects & rebuilds the mother back - so that the baby can develop safely and survive.

Think about crazy cravings for a moment. What was the mother deficient in that the baby made them crave?

Studies have also shown cells from a fetus in a mothers brain 18 years after she gave birth. How amazing is that?”

If you’re a mom you know how you can intuitively feel your child even when they are not there….Well, now there is scientific proof that moms carry them for years and years even after they have given birth to them.

I find this to be so very beautiful.

Thanks for reading

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05/25/2023

04/21/2023

Traditional midwifery has called to me many times over the last few years, but I was led to quiet the call.

How COULD I begin? Mothering two young children, getting my feet on the ground in adulthood, Life's many expectations.

Despite allowing the light on my path to dim, I've simultaneously been listening more closely. I've had the time to align with my "yes", the "no", and the "not right now, but maybe later".

I've come to LOVE that becoming a student midwife doesn't *have* to be fast and furious.

To now be a student of a kind-hearted, resilient, and so very loving, elder traditional midwife, I'm able to remember my very unique place in this work.

She is helping me remember that this path isn't a race. I am learning that it takes time, intention and ritual to truly integrate the heart of midwifery. This is before even beginning to scratch the surface of hard skills.

To me, this path is about the feelings we hold in our bodies when we make decisions.

This path is about choosing aligned mentors, preceptors, paths to learning, because "we become like them." ❤️

It's about discernment. Humility. Love. Trusting our process. The Process. Birth.

I'm grateful to be on the slow path 🦥