Peninsula Midwives

09/05/2025

Calling all peeps who have considered interest in birthwork and looking for a flexible side hustle!! Peninsula Midwives is looking to add to our birth assistants and wanted to put out a broader call out into the community! I'm hosting a Q&A alongside my longtime birth assistant Claire to help fliah out some folks who are interested in training in this work. The training is DOE. Call schedule is set monthly and can be flexible. This work is a great option for someone either with some experience in healthcare or attending births, but this is not a requirement. Please join us, and please spread the word!!!

09/02/2025

Welcome Sweet Baby J, born mid-Aug. She was a very triumphant VBAC planned at St Joe's in Tacoma with their amazing Midwifery Group! I cared for her mama until early in the 3rd trimester when I handed her off, as planned, to my friend in the St Joe's group. It's been so sweet to welcome this family back into my care for the postpartum time. I adore them all!

08/26/2025

Reminder! Whether you are my client, or another midwife's client, your midwife has put in so so much time caring for you during and in between your visits.

I once calculated that on average, for every hour I spend with someone, I spend another 30-60min entering labs or ultrasounds, texting, emailing, making referrals, researching, charting, sending records, driving to or from home visits, or otherwise prepping. That's not to name the months on-call for anything urgent, weeks on call for your birth, hours of thinking, or maybe worrying about someone in the wee hours of morning.

I do this work because I wouldn't have it any other way. I love it down to my bones!! But I cannot do it for free! Running a practice is only getting more and more expensive and it's really nice when I can afford to pay myself, too!!

Accepting insurance is in alignment with my values, and as long as I can, I will continue to be in-network. Accessibility matters so much to me. Buuut, this means that payment for care from insurance is pulling teeth is always delayed months, sometimes YEARS! If you have received an invoice for care provided, please pay it promptly! If you cannot pay it promptly, please please be in touch! Payment plans are great and I'm always happy to offer them! No contact and repeated invoices sucks. There's no way around that.

That is your midwife PSA for the day!

08/26/2025

Welcome Darling Cassidy!! Born 7/22 at Jefferson Healthcare with the wonderful help of their caring team! There are so many moments of power, levity, beauty and connection I will carry with me from this birth. Caring for this family as two became three, and witnessing their transformation was such an honor.



(Gosh I wish I could get IG to accept pictures with different orientations in the same post!)

08/11/2025

Welcome Sweet Frankie Rose! Born on 7/19 just before dawn. How very glad we are that you joined our little community here! You have been dreamed of for so long, and I have no doubt how cherished you will be in this life! Your mama and papa have been dear to me, and walking the journey of your becoming has made that grow immensely! Your mama is so incredibly strong. Your birth made me work for it, laugh, cry, and be infinitely grateful for the serendipity of this existence.

08/10/2025

Starting tomorrow!

08/10/2025

07/31/2025

This old familiar song. The other shoe dropping. Swedish 11e at sunrise.

Here are some details on one facet of complexity in my life.

Today, I'm at Swedish with my husband. We recently found him to be struggling with antibody mediated donor rejection (he's making antibodies that are attacking his donor kidney). This has been brewing for the last 6wks or so, and we've been in a holding pattern until now. Thankfully, he feels fine, the kidney biopsy last week showed that the kidney looks good, and so we caught it early and can hopefully avoid damage and a shorter life span of the graft. But this means aggressively treating him to get the antibodies to go away and not come back. He'll have 5 very full days of 3 different treatments here in the city. The treatments are plasmapheresis, high dose IV steroids, and IV immunoglobulins. He'll be getting a central line placed, then here today and tomorrow, and need to come back for 3 more treatments next week. I'm staying just through today to get him settled, through the first round of treatments, and ask all the questions, then tapping back in with my kids and my clients. And then...we'll wait. We likely won't repeat labs to see if the treatment was effective for 2-3 months. I am going to hate that waiting time! Waiting on babies I can do. Waiting on news...waiting on lab results...waiting on doctors to round...waiting on treatments to start...I have learned that I am really crap at these. Until then, happy to receive all the thoughts, love, energy, prayers and hugs!

Very grateful for Meredith and aaaaaaallll of our community that is carrying us through another version of the same stuff...again! I could not hold all that I do without you holding me! Thank you! Love you all endlessly! ✨️💜

07/10/2025

Welcome Darling Newton ("Newt")!

Born on Father's Day, the 2nd baby in 1 week and surprising us all by coming much earlier than his sister! His mama absolutely rocked it, and he was born just feet from where his sister was born.

The things I'll remember most about his birth were the warm and blustery day, the flitting in and out of his sister during labor, and her delighted hops upon meeting him the first time! (And of course, my amazing face paint!) Repeat families makes my heart go pitter patter!

07/07/2025

When my family is out of town, one of the first things on my list is to have a printing day! New onesie colors coming to a birth kit near you!!! Love this palette so much.

07/07/2025

This man, this partner of mine in life turns 50 today!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉✨️✨️✨️🎂🎂🎂

I've walked alongside him for almost 16 of those years. I have seen him experience the greatest joys, the darkest fears and a whole hell of a lot of day to day. And I'm so damn lucky because he is truly a wonderful human. I am in awe of how he surrenders to what is, rolls with what is given, and relaxes into the chaos. All the while being one of the steadiest and most grounded humans I've met. He is creative in so many beautiful and surprising ways. He has incredible work ethic, but also the ability to let it all go and relax. He is the reason I can be a midwife in the way that is true to me. Not only does he provide financial steadiness in our home, but he provides support for me on the form of a listening ear, a great hug, a look in the eye that acknowledges the importance of my work, and he's really good about reminding me to eat and just putting food in front of me at times. He's a wonderful parent and compliments me so well on that realm. And on top of all of that...he thinks I'm funny! He has spent much of the last 13 years having major health challenges and it is truly something to celebrate that he is alive!! Happy birthday Sweetie!

Join me in wishing him a wonderful half a century!