Believe in Birth

05/20/2026

One of the greatest honors of this work is being invited into spaces where women feel safe enough to fully surrender to birth.

Home birth carries such a sacred atmosphere, and I would love to serve more families in that setting as I continue expanding my birth photography portfolio.

I currently have space for:
• 1 mid–late September birth
• 1 mid–late November birth
• 1 January birth
• 1 February birth

These sessions are being offered in a limited capacity and at a special portfolio-building rate.

If you’re planning a homebirth and are curious about what birth photography looks like for you and your family, I’d love to hear from you.

As both a doula and a homebirth mama myself, I am familiar with physiological birth and the rhythm of birth spaces, and I approach each one with care and respect. ♡
www.believeinbirthva.com

05/20/2026

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers rocking babies in the middle of the night, the mothers guiding grown children, the mothers waiting with hopeful hearts, and the mothers carrying love for babies they have not yet met or have already had to say goodbye to.

To birth mothers, adoptive mothers, foster mothers, stepmothers, and every woman who pours love, wisdom, gentleness, and strength into the lives around her.

To the women building homes filled with warmth, safety, laughter, prayer, and belonging.

To the mothers showing up day after day in the ordinary moments that quietly shape generations.

To the women nurturing life with their hands, their presence, and their hearts.

Motherhood is sacred work.
It is meaningful work.
It is Kingdom work.

And whether your motherhood feels full today, tender today, long-awaited, or deeply remembered, you are worthy of being honored.

Happy Mother’s Day ♡

04/25/2026

🎯

Is you provider afraid of post partum hemorrhage? Then you shall receive lots of postpartum drugs weather they are needed or not.

Is your provider afraid of a baby who may come past your due date? then you shall be induced at 39 weeks.

Is your provider afraid of a shoulder dystocia? Then you shall deliver on your back.

Is your provider afraid of birth? Then you shall receive the cascade of interventions.

04/20/2026

“Lord, make me the mother they need.”
I whisper it when I’m tired,
When I’ve lost my patience,
When I feel like I’ve failed again.

Make me patient when they’re loud,
Make me gentle when they test me,
Make me brave when I’m unsure.

And when I can’t be all those things,
Remind me that grace covers what strength cannot.

Because at the end of each long day,
I don’t need to be perfect—
I just need to keep showing up,
With love, with faith, with You beside me.

And maybe that’s what motherhood really is—
Not having it all together,
But trusting that in every stumble,
In every whispered prayer,
You are shaping me too.

With love,
Always — Mama 🤍

———

04/03/2026

Friday is good because Sunday is coming 🕊️

“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him…” — Isaiah 53:5

Thank you, Jesus 😭🫶🏼

03/28/2026

Forever grateful for Ashley Blaney Photography for capturing these photos 😭 I had wanted to do birth photography for so long and having my own birth photos really put into perspective just how special they are 🤍

03/20/2026

Think of all the time, research, planning, and money you invested in becoming a wife.

Your transformation into motherhood deserves that same investment.

!!!!!!! What is stopping you from investing in your birth? I know we are living in a questionable economy but if we are all being honest with ourselves, we are a generation of people where if we truly want something, we make it happen.

So what’s truly holding you back from researching, planning and investing in your transformation to motherhood?

Imagine a world where we invest as much energy into our births as we do our weddings.

The average wedding costs $30,000, imagine if we invested that into birth. Prenatal care, birth facilitation, and postpartum support.

Prenatal care could be anything that makes a mother feel radiant.

With mothers in the driver seat even complicated births would be empowering.

With postpartum support mothers would be able to rest, recover, and integrate.

Mothers don’t realize how many options they have available to them. Like our weddings the way we birth is uniquely us.

Invest in your birth, it will change everything.

A doula, monitrice, birth advocate, or Matrona can facilitate your birth and help you understand all your options and why they matter.

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. ♡
www.believeinbirthva.com

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