Believe in Birth

02/14/2026

I’ve been brainstorming for weeks about a post to make in regard to my 2026 availability. & every time I attempt to make a post, it sounds too sales pitchy for my liking. So I’m just going to share what’s on my heart and let you all know what my schedule in the midst of motherhood is looking like haha 🫶🏼

I didn’t get into birthwork for the “business” or money. I stepped into birth work because I had a calling to serve women in the most vulnerable time of their entire lives.

Not to necessarily teach about what to expect in labor and breath work, but to be with you throughout pregnancy and build a relationship, a friendship if you will.

To answer all the “is this normal” questions and to remind you that God quite literally created you to do exactly what you’re doing — bring life into this world.

To wipe the your face, braid your hair, rub your feet, hold your throw up bowl, breathe WITH you, maybe even cry with you, and help you find your voice when it gets a little shaky.

If you’re pregnant or hoping to be pregnant this year and curious about doula support, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Please understand that I only take a very few amount of births a year to ensure that I can give my all to the families I do serve ♡
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01/08/2026

A sweet dear friend of mine and a fellow birth worker is going through a very scary time.

I ask that if you have a moment to take the time to read her story and above all else, pray for her family. Pray for her health, for her husband and children. Pray for her care team. Pray for peace, comfort, wisdom and discernment throughout all of this.

If you feel called to help, her GFM and other forms of payment are attached in the link.

Heidi, you are such an amazing friend, mother, wife and doula. I’m praying so so hard for you sweet friend!

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Just before the holidays one morning, Heidi woke up and was very ill. S… Michelle Glenn needs your support for Support for the Gross Family’s Move & Treatment

01/05/2026

2025 Recap 🫶🏼

I didn’t attend a ton of births this year, but the ones I did get to witness were oh so special.

I stood beside my sister and brother in law as they welcomed my sweet niece into this world. Nothing can truly compare to that. 🥹

I reconnected with a friend from over a decade ago, as if we had never stopped talking. I watched God move in her birth, in postpartum, and in her life throughout the year 🕊️

I was apart of a birth team supporting first time parents who had waited so, so long for their daughter. I witnessed a mother work relentlessly to bring her baby earthside. There were tears. There were prayers. The wait was over 🫶🏼

I was with one of my closest friends as she welcomed her third baby, a sweet surprise boy. She stepped into power and advocacy, and quite literally laughed and joked her way through labor as she welcomed her second son 👶🏼

I stepped in for a birth with a family I hadn’t met yet, and we clicked beyond belief. We spent hours together, and it felt like we had known each other our whole lives. They welcomed a sweet boy into this world 🩵

This year held fewer births, but each one was deeply meaningful. So grateful for a year that continually pointed me back to God’s presence and faithfulness. ♡
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12/26/2025

Our Savior is born 🕊️

Merry Christmas 🤍

Sharing my favorite birth story of all, because it never gets old. 🫶 ✨FLESH✨ Jesus’ birth was no Insta-perfect manger scene with glowing orbs.😇 The most iconic birth in history took place in lowly, un-sanitized manger among farm animals.

Oh, what a birth story! The King of the universe came to Earth and put on FLESH to live among us.👑

“The Word became FLESH and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” -John 1:14

I wonder, did Mary experience pain? Did she get scared and ask how long it would take? I don’t know, but, like most home births, it was probably messy, bloody, vulnerable and intense.🩸

Our modern society doesn’t like dirty and unfiltered. In fact, we CENSOR birth and death. It’s too uncomfortable for our virgin eyes, perhaps.🙈

We like to clean up birth, numb the intense feelings with drugs and make it pretty, shiny and sterile. 🧼 Even in postpartum, we tell mom to “cover up.”🤱

We censor manger scenes and we censor modern motherhood.

Yet, birth is anything but clean and dignified!
✨Birth is the breaking of waters,
✨The gushing of fluids,
✨Moans too deep for words,
✨Expulsion of a placenta,
✨Blood running down the leg,
✨Skin-to-bloody-vernix-coated-skin.

🐂Among stalls intended for animals, the King of kings was born to a 16 year old girl.

His flesh felt cold air, his belly felt hunger and his body felt pain. He was comforted by the gentle touch of his mother and fed by the nourishment of her breastmilk.

In life and death, He demonstrated what pure love looks like, vulnerable and unashamed.❤️

Jesus left this world the same way he came into it: naked and exposed.

Flesh makes us human. It is not a curse. It is the greatest privilege of our existence and one the angels look down upon with envy.

🎄This Christmas, may you experience the outrageous, unconditional love of Jesus.

🤰May you embrace motherhood, like Mary did, it all its undignified, sacrificial, messy glory.

“We love because he first loved us.” - John 4:19
Words: “Flesh” by (2020)
Image: The Creation of Man (2017) by

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas Eve❤️

I often reflect on how Mary was feeling during this time

She was far from home. Body aching from travel. Holding all of the weight of wonder, fear and anticipation all at once. Her body was not preparing for the birth of her son, but our Savior. Facing the reality that because of her obedience, the world was about to change.

She knew the promise, but she still had to go through the pain. Mary likely felt vulnerable about to give birth in less-than ideal conditions… yet deeply aware that she was not alone. Every contraction, every breath, carried both exhaustion and expectancy. She had said yes to God, but that yes didn’t erase the discomfort, the questions, or the fear of the unknown.

On Christmas Eve Mary waited. She was tired, brave and faithful. Trusting that the God who chose her to deliver this miracle would also sustain her.

12/14/2025

12/04/2025

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Oh My❤️😭 • there’s an ethereal quality to the world in those first hours after birth…a soft, shimmering vulnerability where everything feels suspended between worlds.

this new piece comes from one of my favorite parts of midwifery: the immediate postpartum. the tender things no one writes about in textbooks. those first moments when someone is away from their baby, separated for the first time in 10 months.

helping a mama wash her hair because she still has an iv, supporting her rise from the postpartum bath, drying her legs with gentle hands, brushing her hair back, pulling on the postpartum underwear, cooking food and bringing it to her bedside.

there’s something holy about caring for someone in that vulnerable, powerful in-between.
to tend. to witness.
giving people a gentle, loving container to land back into their bodies after searching the stars for their babies.

this will forever by my favorite part of birthwork 🧡 birthwork postpartumsupport postpartum midwife homebirth