Anthus Midwifery Services

06/27/2025

We are so excited to Introduce the newest addition to the Anthus Midwives team ✨ Doula, Pedelia Garyeazon
⭐️ Come and meet her tonight at *BIRTH STORIES!*

🌍 Pedelia was born in Liberia, West Africa in June, 1988.

👶🏽 She worked at Addy’s Hope Orphanage from 2008-2010, teaching & loving the 60+ children living there.

🎉 Pedelia met Shanna in 2009 when Shanna visited Liberia on a mission trip to Addy’s Hope.

🏡 She moved to Midland in 2011 where she lived with Shanna’s family, and was introduced to the world of midwifery. Over the next five years, Pedelia attended countless births with Shanna, serving as birth assistant and unofficial doula.

🎓 She attended Midland College and received her CNA in 2017. Then she moved to Alabama in 2017 to attend The Ramp School of Ministry, receiving a degree from their “School of the Arts” in 2024.

🤰🏽Pedelia moved to Midland in 2025 and began Birth Boot Camp to become a doula!

“I’m excited for this amazing adventure to come along side the Anthus Midwives and serve families in our community as a doula! To experience the beautiful call that we all have to serve the LORD and to serve each other in the simplest ways is an honor. I look forward to meeting you!”
-Pedelia 💕

06/26/2025

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If a provider starts doubtful discussion about your hips or pelvis during prenatal appointments, that’s a good sign to RUN. No seriously, time to hire someone new. There is no evidence to support making any predictions or interventions based on the perceived “size” of a woman’s hips, frame, or pelvis.

None.
Zip.
Zilch.

All comments like that tell us is how very ignorant that “expert” is in basic female physiology and the physiological birth process.

Unless a woman is *severely* malnourished (we’re talking rickets), has sustained a complex pelvic injury, or has a significant deformity, her pelvis or hips should not enter the discussion of her “ability” to birth. That is, of course, unless the discussion is the provider exclaiming over just how ✨magnificent✨ it is that her pelvis moves and shifts at the end of pregnancy and all throughout labor to accommodate the birth of her perfectly sized baby through her perfectly sized body.

I recently heard a woman recounting that during birth the OB on call was predicting her “bony” pelvis wouldn’t be able to birth her baby.

First: I should hope her pelvis is bony. It’s LITERALLY MADE OF BONES.💀🦴

Second: The pelvis moves, opens, and changes shape during pregnancy and birth. Its size can even be intentionally influenced by the mother, opening an additional 30% depending on her position! (Note: Flat on your back is NOT one of those positions.)

Third: She went on to birth her baby through that bony pelvis just a few hours later.

If there are signs during labor or birth that there are positional issues or baby needs some adjustment or a nudge, there are lots of techniques to implement to help that baby through. Good doctors, midwives, and doulas know when to wait and when to suggest a position or two to help things along. But the vast majority of women will instinctively get into the best position in the moment when labor is not messed with and when her body has the physiological freedom to do so.

God didn’t forget about your hips, sister. He designed every detail of your body and of birth, your beautiful bony pelvis included.

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06/16/2025

🔔Update: Due to family health reasons, he is having to postpone his trip to Midland. If you are already on our list for this next week, you’ll be contacted about rescheduling.

Rabbi Mike is coming next week!

If you’re wanting to have your baby circumcised, there’s simply no better choice than Rabbi Michael Rovinsky. With 18,000+ circumcisions performed, he’s by far the most experienced provider you could ever ask for. Plus he’s kind of a hoot! 🙃

To book your appointment, email us at anthusmidwives@gmail.com.

www.easycircumcision.com

06/07/2025

Happy National Home Birth Day! 💕

05/28/2025

✨ There’s something truly beautiful about seeing midwives and doctors working together—side by side—for the well-being of their patients. When collaboration, trust, and respect are at the heart of care, everyone benefits. 💛

We know that birth is a normal life event. But the fact is, we live in a fallen and imperfect world; every now and then, a birth complication arises, and we need to get our mama-baby duo to a place that is better equipped to handle that particular complication.

Today our midwifery team had the privilege of working with Dr. Oke at Yoakum County Hospital in Denver City. Dr. Oke and the nurses were a joy! They welcomed our laboring family and midwives with respect, compassion, and the BEST care!

Midwives bring holistic, patient-centered care. Doctors bring critical expertise and support when complications arise. But when they come together as a team? That’s when the magic happens. ✨

To all the midwives and doctors out there working hand-in-hand: thank you. You are making birth safer, care more compassionate, and outcomes better. Keep lifting each other up. You’re changing lives. 🫶👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️👶

05/20/2025

When risks aren’t presented/discussed properly, the decisions of the parents aren’t truly informed - they’re coerced. 🤔

04/29/2025

Within reason, of course. 😆 There is such a thing as a birth that’s so quick the poor mama doesn’t even have time to wrap her head it.

🙋🏻‍♀️ Any fast birthers in the house? How quick was it?

04/18/2025

If you’re birthing babies, raising babies, or planning to someday birth and raise babies, Birthing Instincts podcast is a great resource!

This newest episode is excellent!

04/11/2025

Big sister Aurora always had her Peppa Pig stethoscope handy throughout her mama’s care. 🩺 So of course she was ready to use it to check on her new baby brother! 🥰

04/01/2025

✨New uniform reveal✨ for the Anthus Midwives! After much deliberation, we’ve decided the old ways are the best ways. Who wouldn’t want to deliver a baby while wearing a sassy little beret and panty hose? 😆

April Fools!

(And in case you were wondering, the answer is yes, Mari is available for all of your professional photo editing needs).

03/05/2025

The sweetest reason to be awake at midnight. 👩🏻‍🍼🤍

03/01/2025

We’re so excited to 📣 announce 📣 that after years of training and studying (and the millions of little unseen sacrifices that go into that), Aggie is now a Texas licensed (LM), nationally Certified Professional Midwife (CPM)!

If you’ve seen Aggie in action, you know she was born to be a midwife. 💕 She is wise, intuitive, kind, and so very smart!

And we are thrilled that she’s officially joining us as our third Anthus Midwife. We’re so happy for you, Agatha Martens, LM, CPM! You did it! 💪🏼🎉