Minnesota Homebirth

08/01/2025

Breast milk is the ideal first food for a baby👶. It's safe, clean and contains antibodies which protect against dangerous illnesses.

✅ Start within 1 hour after birth 🤱
✅ Breastfeed exclusively for the first 6 months 🤱
✅ Continue alongside healthy family foods until the baby is at least 2 years old 🤱

07/07/2025

The moment that we have been waiting on for seven years now! Midwife Carisa just signed some of my NARM paperwork for the portfolio evaluation process to become a Certified Professional Midwife! I’ve slowly been making progress over the years, but sitting down and updating the paperwork makes me feel like my goal is finally within reach! 👩🏼‍⚕️

07/03/2025

Does breastfeeding really matter to babies’ health in high-resource countries like the US & UK? Yes concluded a brand-new 2025 systematic review. Babies who don’t receive human milk are at increased risk for childhood leukemia, SIDS, ear infections, GI infections, lower respiratory infections, and a host of others. Read more about it here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40240318/

03/31/2025

Need a short-term supply of breastmilk for your infant? Olmsted County Public Health Services is partnering with the Minnesota Milk Bank to provide pasteurized human donor milk (PHDM) bridge bags to families in need.

These bridge bags are designed to support families with infants under 6 months old who need a little extra help reaching their exclusive breastfeeding goals.

To learn more or ask about a bridge bag, call WIC at 507-328-7555 or Family Home Visiting at 507-328-7570.

03/29/2025

My review of the Mother’s room at Oxbow Park and Zollmon Zoo in Byron:

Overall I give it an 9/10!👏🏻

Cleanliness: 10/10
Practicality: 10/10
Comfort: 8/10
Location: 8/10

It was super clean, it is in a central location and has everything that you made need (including extra diapers, wipes and a changing table cover). 👏🏻🤱🏼

03/13/2025

03/09/2025

Baby formula is an adequate life saving food for babies, however It should be treated as a risk and a last resort when breastmilk is not accessible.

Saying “It doesn’t matter” if your baby is fed breast milk or formula is just plain wrong.

Whether you are exclusively breastfeeding, or giving a little bit of both. You have to be made aware that it DOES matter and that even if you are not 100% exclusively breastfeeding, your hard work and effort is worth it!!!

Baby formula is a man made powder made in a factory. It has many missing ingredients such as, hormones, antimicrobial factors, digestive enzymes, growth factors, cytokines, and stem cells.

➖Does not protect against infection
➖Contains artificial ingredients and contaminants
➖Does not protect the breastfeeding mothers health
➖Is not environmentally friendly

Breastmilk is antibacterial, antiviral, anti-parasitic, and antifungal. 🦠💛

➖Antibodies to protect against illnesses
➖Hormones that promote bonding and regulate appetite
➖Stem cells that may support organ development and repair
➖White blood cells that fight infection
➖Beneficial bacteria that protect your baby’s digestive system
➖Prebiotics called oligosaccharides that support a healthy gut
➖Long-chain fatty acids to help develop your baby’s brain, nervous system and eyes
➖Enzymes to support his digestive and immune systems
➖Nucleotides and hormones that help develop healthy sleep-wake patterns

One of the benefits of breast milk over formula is that it’s a LIVING fluid. It adapts to your baby’s changing circumstances. So if your baby becomes ill, your body makes extra white blood cells and antibodies that travel into your milk and help fight infection.

Saying “it doesn’t matter” does a disservice to the moms who are trying their hardest to provide their babies with breast milk.

IT MATTERS.

03/08/2025

Have you heard of Community Food Response (CFR)? CFR in Rochester, Minnesota provides free meals to adults and families with children in need. Learn more: https://www.communityfoodresponse.org/

03/07/2025

“I want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful before i’ve called them intelligent or brave.
I am sorry i made it sound as though something as simple as what you’re born with is all you have to be proud of when you have broken mountains with your wit. From now on i will say things like you are resilient, or you are extraordinary, not because i don’t think you’re beautiful but because i need you to know
you are more than that” -Rupi Kaur

Happy International Women’s Day to all of the resilient, intelligent, brave and extraordinary women in my life! 💐🌷🌼

02/27/2025

Did you know Catholic Charities provides hundreds of free packs of diapers and wipes every month? Families can receive diapers, pullups or wipes with a simple registration process and a copy of the child's birth certificate or footprint card. Call our office at 507-287-2047 to learn more!

12/24/2024

Christmas Eve is upon us and tomorrow we celebrate the most famous birth of all time. The Bible says, “the time came for her baby to be born. She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.” Luke‬ ‭2‬:6-‭7‬ ‭NLT‬‬ So often we see portrayals of Mary and Joseph standing alongside baby Jesus laying in a manager, but this image by Natalie Lennard is the first to truly portray what it would have been like for Mary to give birth in that stable. The words that this work of art invokes for me are: raw, feminine, powerful, and living giving. Mary was chosen to bring Jesus earth side, just as you are chosen to bring forth your own child. Ina May Gaskin once said, “The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5000 species of mammals on the planet. The birth-giving woman is the central agent in the ancient drama of bringing forth new life.” I think that quote is very fitting for Mary and Jesus’ birth story. Anytime you may have fear surrounding your birth, just remember that there are thousands of women all around the world laboring alongside you and that long ago Mary gave birth to Jesus in a barn. Women are made to bring forth life!

May blessings be upon you all this holiday season!

With love, Emily

To read more about this image or Natalie’s project, Birth Undisturbed, check out her website. https://www.birthundisturbed.com/the-creation-of-man

12/20/2024

Here is the link:

https://www.spinningbabies.com/blog-resource-library/research-references/?

💡 Exciting Study Alert! 💡

A recent clinical trial published in the International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing shows the powerful impact of the Spinning Babies® approach!

When labor and delivery nurses at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Florida adopted our techniques, their cesarean rate dropped from 27% to 14%. 🙌

This study reinforces the importance of supporting the body’s natural alignment and movement to create smoother, more balanced birth experiences. When birth professionals are equipped with the right knowledge and skills, we can reduce interventions and improve outcomes for both parents and babies.

📚 You can read more about the research backing the Spinning Babies® approach on our research and references page via link in bio