Deb Phillips, CPM, LLM, MBC Home Birth Services

09/15/2025

09/14/2025

AJOG Expert Review in Labor: Water birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis of maternal and neonatal outcomes https://ow.ly/nr7O50R9Nzi

09/07/2025

Turn on the radio. The world is rising up, folks! HHS just announced acetaminophen is linked to autism! Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D. & I have been saying so for years. Do NOT take this during pregnancy. Do NOT give it to your infants.

An article to get you started if you're a science-forward reader: https://jennifermargulis.substack.com/p/acetaminophen-doesnt-cause-autism

An article for pregnant women: https://avivaromm.com/tylenol-headaches-in-pregnancy/

An article for parents: https://jennifermargulis.net/baby-tylenol-much-tylenol-safe/

Alternatives that are better and safer for you and your kids: https://jennifermargulis.net/tylenol-alternatives-better-safer-remedies/

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Jennifer Margulis The Vaccine-Friendly Plan Your Baby, Your Way

09/02/2025

Oh how I LOVE being a midwife! Every text from a glowing new mama, every time we hear that very first heartbeat, every prenatal filled with joy and anticipation, and every single moment, when I get to catch a sweet baby—it never gets old! Each part of this journey is such a beautiful reminder of the miracle of life. ✨👶

Midwifery is more than a job—it’s my calling, my ministry, and one of the greatest honors of my life. God has placed me right where I’m meant to be, and I celebrate every precious moment of serving families in this sacred season. 🙌💜

After 43 years I cannot imagine a time of not going to births. Thank God for calling me to midwifery!

08/22/2025

Dr. O’Dent did a conference for us. Best one we had.

We are saddened to hear news of the passing of Michel Odent, whose vision and writing reshaped the way we understand human birth.

Michel Odent reminded us that birth is not a medical procedure to be controlled, but a primal rythm to be respected. He advocated for home-like maternity units, warm water births, protecting the birthing woman's privacy and honouring her instincts, undisturbed contact between mother and newborn; he was among the first to discuss the importance of the microbiome, and question many of the practices that had (and have) become normalised in overmedicalised maternity systems globally.

Michel Odent's legacy lives on in every dimmed, quiet birthing room, and in every midwife his words and work inspired to join our profession.

Thank you, Michel, for your passion, vision and committment to women and newborns.

Photo: Xavier Caré / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA

09/25/2024

“Many couples don’t call their midwife until the sensations are coming five minutes apart (30 seconds long), but they’ve been up since midnight timing every one of the early sensations. If the woman had called the midwife at midnight, she would have said, “Turn off the light and let your husband sleep as much as possible through the night. Stay dark and quiet. It’s still very early. Take a bath with a candle if it helps, but the most important thing is to get some rest. Call me back when you think I should come over.” That first night can make all the difference and yet so many couples act like it’s a party and don’t realize they are sabotaging their births right at the beginning. Staying up all night in the early part does two things: 1) it throws off the body clock, which controls sleep and waking, confusing the brain and 2) it inhibits the release of the very hormone women need to dilate effectively, oxytocin.”

The Importance of Sensory Quiet
by Gloria Lemay