Modern Day Midwife

07/03/2025

Excercise improves placental function. ❤️ data to support what we already know… common sense medicine.

07/02/2025

10 things I’d say today as your midwife, if I wasn’t afraid of hurting your feelings.

06/04/2025

Things I’ve fallen for and deeply know in my 25 years of training and practice in the Womens health field.

03/13/2025

Happy Birthday to our favorite midwife! 🤍
I’m so grateful for you. Thank you for everything you do. I hope you have a good week off celebrating with your family and friends. It is very much deserved!
- Evelin 🌸

03/08/2025

Happy International Womens Day to all the amazing women who’ve mothered me and helped me find myself in a world that asks us to be a lot of things.

Here’s to strong women, may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them!

02/01/2025

I did a thing 🪶

It’s not a coincidence that MDMs logo is a feather. Feather’s are symbolic of Gods presence and protection. I started noticing them when I was young and lost a friend. Feathers everywhere all the time. I never knew what it meant and assumed it was a coincidence. The older I get the more I understand that what my logical mind tags as coincidence is actually Gods presence in my life. I got my first tattoo of my favorite feather ten years ago when I made a complete leap of faith to follow Gods plans for my life. And although faded and old every time I see it, it reminds me of that time of my life that I trusted in him blindly and stepped out of my comfort zone. Today I got another feather on my wrist to remind me of Gods protection and presence. Ten years later…. Tens years more experienced, and ten years wiser…. I am taking another leap of faith. Fully blind but trusting in Gods plans for my life. 2025 is going to be another big year of faith and stepping into the unknown. If you’ve been here for a while you know that I’m slowly learning to listen when God says move. And that’s what I’m doing. Thank you so much to this community, your presence, and your support. My prayer is that this jump blesses this community even more than the last one.

More details to come once I know them. I may not know his plans for my life. But I trust them. And I am hopeful they are more inline with the pillars of health that I try so hard to model for my mamas, that it keeps me in the community in which I have dedicated the last two decades of my life, and that helps me broaden my reach in the west valley without burning out my love for caring for women.

I love each and everyone of you and thank you for supporting me through my growth and transitions.

11/28/2024

Grateful to each of you and this beautiful community of women God has blessed me to serve.

Little reminders this Thanksgiving….

All things done with a grateful heart are easier than with heaviness or resentment. I’ve found the more I seek to see the beautiful blessings in my life the lighter, easier, and happier I am while I’m doing them. I pray you take a moment or pause today to look around and count those blessings. Because God is good, even in the trials.

Happy Thanksgiving MDM community.

Philippians 4:6-7
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Galatians 6:9
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

10/08/2024

Birth Prep Rescheduled

I greatly appreciate your flexibility and am so grateful. We would like to inform you that Birth Prep has been rescheduled from Oct 15, 2024, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM to

10/07/2024

Happy International Midwifery Week to all of the amazing midwives I know. Thank you for your passion, dedication, and sacrifice to this profession. I pray for your heart, your health, your mind, your body, your spirit, as birth work is one of the hardest professions there is. I see you. I hear you. I stand along side you. This week is for you. I hope you feel loved, cherished, appreciated, and I hope your patients, family, and friends shower you in the love you so freely give to others.

09/19/2024

That’s a hard read. Cheers to all my fellow midwives who show up and do the damn things. Even when it’s hard. Even when the wall is tall. Even when changing the system is like throwing yourself into a marshmallow that you bounce right off of. Keep showing up. The mamas need you ❤️

Why Midwives Leave

Midwives walk a fine line
Simultaneously balancing medicalisation and optimisation of physiological processes
‘Oh but it must be nice to spend your day cuddling babies,’ they say
But it’s not like that, not at all
We walk a thinning tightrope above a screaming squall
We can’t be all things to all men, seemingly impossible
But we must be all things to all women, this is non optional
Chameleonic in our approach
Always with a smile, always above reproach
Shift after shift we burn with intelligent compassion
Trying to pick our way through paths that safety fashions
Vitality important, we always should be safe
Sometimes what we do though, it itches, it chafes
Like an induction, although don’t get me wrong at times it’s needed
Though sometimes I’m not sure this is how Motherhood should be greeted
Its feels so invasive a process
The dropped faces when things haven’t progressed yet
I know we need to be better as a service
I read those reports, they weren’t undeserved
But trying to hold the fort feels like an impossible task
When a shift has only got six of what should be nine staff
Relentlessly gruelling working what feels like a endless factory line
Of cookie cutter processes, all with limited time
There’s only so long you can take such a slog
Chasing your tail trying to minimise the backlog
Minimal staff, no time for breaks
Your dinner a biscuit, finishing notes, once again home late
Shifts succeeding on a wing and a prayer
Constantly feeling you’re not giving good care
Always saying ‘we can’t survive as we are.’
Those above replying, ‘but, oh, you’re such stars!’
Loud roaring silence from our union
This weird assumption that we’re all superhuman
We end up on this busy body roundabout
Spinning, twisting, dizzy, feeling burnt out
But why do we stay under such systemic stresses
It’s for a moment where it all coalesces
Witnessing cries that causes such jubilant rapture
Joy so complete, no other can capture
But no one can subsist on momentary pleasure
When the hours around them are filled with unending pressures
It’s never a shout, it’s never a roar
There’s just one day when we can’t take it anymore

And we just leave
We go
Decamp, say farewell
Retire, resign and withdraw

And I have to wonder…..

If all midwives and mothers meet in systemic strife
Who will midwife the mother when mothers don’t become midwives

Copyright Midwifosaurus

Photo credit Hester Ng, SOPA images.

08/24/2024

I sat and cried when I read this today. The number of women I sit along side who are trying to find answers to their physical pain… let’s just say this…. This hits hard. The holistic psychologist might be one of the most deeply intuitive practitioners I’ve ever known. Our generation of women are bc of her ❤️

The most dangerous place for a woman is: in her home.

1 in 4 and 1 in 13 men experience childhood abuse (CDC)

The most likely person to abuse a child is their parent or legal guardian (76%). As a woman ages, the most likely person to abuse her is her partner.

The trauma of childhood abuse leads to disease. This is well researched, yet little funding goes into educating the public on: secure attachment, emotional intelligence, repair, generational trauma, and healthy family dynamics.

Young girls are conditioned to be “good” and to repress their anger. Their bodies carry the pain and memories of betrayal.

In the future we will understand how emotional pain can become physical disease.

Healthy family dynamics are quite literally: disease prevention.

We need to raise young girls in homes where their bodies are not objectified, where they can say “no” clearly and asset boundaries, and where they can express their (rightful) anger in healthy ways. We also need to stop creating people-pleasing “fixers” who put everyone else first as they sacrifice their own wellbeing.

Reminder: .circle opens Sept 1st. We have the leading experts on trauma and autoimmune like and incredible workshops/content for healing the body through today’s research. Comment “WAITLIST” then check your DM to secure your spot

07/20/2024

Yesssssssss!!!!!! Lily you’re always just sharing the best truths around!