Joyful Beginnings offers complete prenatal, birth, and postpartum care to families seeking home birth with licensed midwives.
Helping you know all your options by practicing informed, evidence-based care. Healthy moms + healthy babies + happy families. Welcome To Joyful Beginnings Birth Care of New Braunfels. We believe that pregnancy and birth are a normal part of a healthy woman's life and that there are options outside of a hospital setting. We provide complete prenatal, birth and post partum care for healthy, low risk mothers seeking a natural, gentle, and non-interventive birth.
Are you expecting or newly postpartum and looking for trusted resources in New Braunfels? Join us for Bumps to Babies — a FREE educational and empowering event designed to connect you with some of the top family-focused providers in our community. You’ll hear short, informative presentations from:
👶🏻 Joyful Beginnings Birth Care
🤰🏻 webbpelvicpt
🦷 Smile Pediatric Dental Care
🌱 Jenna Longoria - The Period Guru
💤 Swallowtail Sleep
🧠 Valeo Chiropractic
🍼 Crossroads Therapy
Whether you’re preparing for birth, navigating the newborn stage, or simply wanting to feel more confident in your parenting journey, this event will give you practical tools, expert guidance, and local connections you can trust. Small bites will be provided and each attendee will be entered in to win one of our incredible raffle baskets designed for expecting and new moms 🎟️
Spots are limited, so RSVP is required to attend. Due to space limitations and to keep the presentations distraction free, this event is for adult only. Infants in arms are always welcome (0-6 months) 👶🏻
Please send us a DM if you have any question regarding the event! We look forward to seeing you there ❤️
03/01/2026
January tricked us by being all light & chill. Then February showed up and decided to triple its birthdays with a record breaking 21 babies in 21 days. 😵💫
Some January babes came late and some March (and an April!) decided to show up on the scene early. 🤔
Peace out, February. ✌🏼 It’s been…cool. 🫠
02/27/2026
Heartburn in pregnancy = a hairy baby? 🔥
This one actually has a little research behind it.
A small study found that people who reported more heartburn were more likely to have babies born with more hair. The theory? The same pregnancy hormones that relax the esophageal sphincter (hello, reflux) may also influence fetal hair growth.
Is it predictive? No.
Is it a fun physiologic overlap? Yes.
And if the heartburn is relentless — you don’t have to suffer through it. Your midwife has options. 🤍
Tell us in the comments which heartburn remedies helped you during your pregnancy’s!
02/05/2026
Easing into 2026...
02/03/2026
Supporting labor means accommodating the moment, not interrupting it.
Positioning, timing, touch, and presence all shift to match what the mother needs. Care should fit her, not the other way around. 🩺✨
We've had a busy & blessed 2025! We are honored to have cared for the families that've walked through our doors and cannot wait to see what 2026 brings!
01/01/2026
When we aren't catching babies or running clinic...
Cheers 🥂 to our growing team and all the fun accomplishments and memories from 2025!
01/01/2026
Closing out 2025 with a flurry of babes! Keep your eye out for our yearly stats posting tomorrow!
12/25/2025
Merry Christmas, from Joyful Beginnings to you 🎅🏼🎄
12/05/2025
11/29/2025
There’s something profoundly humbling about being invited into the space where new life enters the world. Midwifery honors birth as more than a medical moment — it’s a threshold, a transformation, a place where courage, intuition, and tenderness all meet. We walk beside families as they discover their own strength, protecting the physiology of birth while holding space for the emotional and spiritual shifts unfolding in real time.
Midwives matter because presence matters. Patience matters. Trust matters. We bring hands that are skilled, hearts that are steady, and a belief in the power and wisdom of the birthing body. We listen deeply. We advocate fiercely. We support families in ways that ripple far beyond the moment of birth itself.
Every birth is a story, and every story is sacred. This work is not just what we *do* — it’s who we are. ✨🌿👶🏽
Address
712 N. Houston Avenue Suite B New Braunfels, TX 78130
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Joyful Beginnings Birth Care began out of a desire to serve birthing women & their families by providing access to informed, evidence-based holistic healthcare. We believe that pregnancy and birth are a normal life process, and not an illness. And for healthy, low-risk women - out of hospital birth with qualified, licensed midwives is a safe option. We provide complete prenatal, birth and postpartum care for women seeking a natural, and non-interventive out of hospital birth. From VBAC to water birth, we want to help you have the best birth possible!
Serving: New Braunfels, San Antonio, Kyle, and surrounding areas.
Joani Koenig LM, CPM
Joani was raised with a natural approach to health and wellness. This foundation, coupled with a deep affinity for babies and a strong desire to nurture others, led Joani to a rewarding passion for midwifery. In college, Joani studied health and wellness. During her pregnancies, (all nine!), she used the services of midwives and still maintains a mentoring relationship with Pat Jones, CNM of Houston–a pioneer in the Midwifery Model of Care. Today, Joani collaborates with an extensive group of birth professionals and continues to be committed to furthering the education of and options for women during pregnancy.
Joani relocated to the New Braunfels area with her family in 2004. She operated as part of another midwifery practice before launching Joyful Beginnings in 2010. Having functioned in the roles of doula, labor coach, childbirth educator and midwife during her career, she has been a part of hundreds of birth experiences. Joani has served in a professional role for over 400 births, and as a midwife for over 350 births.
Ashley is a Nationally Certified Professional Midwife, licensed by the state of Texas serving clients in the New Braunfels, San Antonio and Texas Hill Country. She currently serves as President for the San Antonio Area Midwives Association, and is a regional board member for the Association of Texas Midwives. She has worked with Joyful Beginnings Birth Care first as an office manager while she was pursuing her education and came on board as a staff midwife in 2014.
Ashley first became aware of the Midwifery Model of Care through a missionary midwife in 2008 and began focusing her education and attentions to becoming a midwife. Through her 4 years of ATM’s Midwifery Training Program she worked as an apprentice midwife and has been a part of over 200 births; homebirths, birth center births and hospital births. While her primary focus is with Joyful Beginnings, she has been called upon to assist other area midwives and midwifery practices creating a resource of relationships with other birth professionals she can access if needed.
