Natural Design Midwifery

01/17/2026

This little beauty was born this morning and I can’t help but imagine her grabbing her umbilical cord and floating up with her placenta balloon 🎈

12/31/2025

Drum roll for the 2025 stats 🥁
Home Births 🏠 : 48
Hospital Births 🏥 Transferring in Labor:7
Planned Hospital Births: 3
First Time Moms: 11
Preterm Births: 1
VBAC: 6
C-Sections: 2 primary, 1 repeat
Boys 💙: 30
Girls 💓: 28
Mom needing stitches: 15
Water Births 💦: 38
Shortest Labor: 45min
Longest Labor: 6 days (prodromal)
NICU admissions: 2
Postpartum Maternal Transfer: 1
Smallest Baby: 5lb, 14oz
Biggest Baby: 10lb, 4oz

12/02/2025

Birth video of the one and only .midwifery

12/01/2025

When your mother’s kisses are your first life experience 🥹❤️😭. And the second picture was the moment she told dad, “it’s a boy.” She had told me from her first prenatal visit, “this is a boy and we’re going to name him Gabriel.” She is 5 for 5 predicting her babies without confirmation ‘till birth. 💙💗💙💗💙

10/17/2025

Have you ever considered how powerful your thoughts about your birth are? Last night my brother asked me to come over to talk to his wife because she was feeling very anxious about her birth. Her previous 2 babies had come preterm at 3lb and 5lb and I don’t think she had time to let fear set in since they came unexpectedly early. But this time she went 2 days past due giving her all the extra time to internalize the “what-if’s” of labor. I was honestly shocked when she admitted she was worried she was going to die in childbirth. She was worried the baby would be too big for her small frame and that she would hemorrhage. I realized that I had never really taken the time to talk through all the what-ifs with her! But there is no time like the present. We talked through her fears and how I manage complications such as shoulder dystocia, postpartum hemorrhage and so on. I went home and we continued the conversation through text until she felt safe and calm. Not coincidentally, her labor began within a few hours and her beautiful baby boy was born after just 7 minutes of pushing and without any complications 🙌🏻. This is the 10th time I’ve “midwifed” for one of my siblings (it helps that I have 8 siblings) and it is such an honor every single time. I’m so proud of my SIL for being honest about her fears and working through it with me. (Shared with permission).

09/22/2025

Moms should never be separated from their babies for asymptomatic Covid

08/28/2025

This morning’s birth 😍 Look at big sister meeting her baby brother for the first time 🥹

08/21/2025

07/09/2025

with abuela

07/02/2025

This mama labored all night with contractions coming mostly irregularly, meaning that there wasn’t a consistent pattern. She would doze in and out of that kind of labor sleep that isn’t really sleep but also isn’t fully awake (iykyk). At 6:30am I asked her “when do your other 4 kids wake up?” “Usually by 7am.” She said tiredly. “Whelp…you’ve got 30 minutes till then.” Sure enough at 6:49am this little 6 pound 4 ounce baby came flying out, straight into her mama’s hands. Just in time to soak up uninterrupted minutes…eleven minutes to be exact.