Mountain Family Midwifery

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Mountain Family Midwifery

Midwife and advocate serving families in the Rockies. Women are innately and perfectly designed to give birth undisturbed, in their own natural environments.

If you're interested in natural birth, then your own best birth will happen in a setting where you feel completely comfortable, with attendants who know you well and who respect the natural dynamics of undisturbed birth. If natural birth in a home setting appeals to you, consider contacting Mountain Family Midwifery to set up a free consultation about your options. Mountain Family Midwifery offers

a safe, life-affirming journey through pregnancy and birth. Consistent, comprehensive, holistic care in pregnancy provides the foundation for beautiful birth experiences. Based out of Salida CO, Alli Gober, RM, CPM provides care for a broad region of central Colorado, including the communities of Salida, Buena Vista, Leadville, Summit County, Park County, Canon City, Westcliffe, Cotopaxi, Howard, Gunnison and Crested Butte.

06/15/2025

Happy Fathers Day! Thank you dads for all the fun, support and love you bring to your families!

05/29/2025

My absolute favorite moment of any day is these texts 🥹

02/24/2025

Nine babies joined us since New Years! ✨✨✨ Some of the births were smooth like butter, some were much more complicated. Some were tiny, and some were hefty! Two girls and SEVEN boys. All are healthy, precious and thriving! So grateful for the families I get to work with and the babies I get to admire 😍

02/13/2025

Beautiful ✅
Intense ✅
Powerful ✅
Traumatic ✅
Surprising ✅
Perfect✅
Joyful ✅
Safe✅

I had the immense honor of working with this new family recently, watching them grow through their first pregnancy, find their paths as new parents and welcome their baby boy to the world. Colter Creede was born January 1st, a New Years Capricorn baby, weighing a little less than we expected at 5,7 but a sweet healthy boy nonetheless. Births don’t proceed according to our expectations, and this little one had his own plan for his entrance to the world! Welcome to the world Colter! 🤍🩵💙

I wish I could keep this squishy adorable family in my back pocket wherever I go. Congratulations Buck and Zoe! Thank you for choosing me to walk beside you through your pregnancy, birth and early parenting. I have so much joy for your perfectly imperfect journey and the deep love that resides in your home. 💜

02/07/2025

As I sit here with this beautiful family and their new baby boy, I have such gratitude that they were willing to travel to Colorado for her third VBAC. Her first birth was a c-section for breech, which is a whole other soapbox. But given the way our system governs VBACs, this mom would’ve been on her FOURTH surgical birth at this point. I’m so grateful that she doesn’t have the risk of each additional uterine scar, as her home state of Kansas would’ve asked of her. I’m so happy for her that she brings her babies to the world in a way that empowers her! I’m so proud of VBAC families, and I’m so proud to help VBAC families. Diligent risk-assessment and attention to intuition lead to best outcomes.

12/29/2024

As we approach the final days of 2024, I like to put together a recap of the year’s births- in the spirit of accountability and to linger on all the amazing moments. This year, what stands out to me is my transfer rate- about 1/3 of my beloved clients transferred to the hospital for a higher level of care! It was a random assortment of reasons, as you will see. I can say each transfer was a strong example of shared decision-making, with families empowered and engaged in exploring their options.

There were beautiful straightforward births as well, of course! Some very fast births- where I showed up only shortly before the baby emerged! And so many bouncing, happy, smiling babies!

Here’s the year in numbers:
Total births 41
Boys 15
Girls 26
Amish 7
First time parents 13
Waterbirths 6
Biggest smallest 4,1 and 9,9
40 weeks 23
Fastest 1 hr 15 min
All time c section rate 8%
All time successful VBAC 85%
ZERO maternal or fetal deaths

13 total transfers for hospital birth:
7 transfers for prolonged second stage- which resulted in vaginal births for 4 of those babies and surgical births for the other three- one of whom had his ear presenting!

One transfer in labor for fetal distress, which resulted in a perfectly healthy baby born naturally and vaginally,

One transfer prior to labor for fetal distress, which resulted in a surgical birth,

One transfer for severe hypertension prior to labor,

One transfer for an active HSV outbreak in labor,

One transfer for prolonged rupture of membranes,

One transfer for breech presentation prior to labor,

Total c-sections 6

Three transfers postpartum:
One transfer immediately postpartum for a baby needing ongoing respiratory support

One transfer immediately postpartum for a retained placenta

One transfer postpartum for neonatal hypoglycemia

And that is all! I feel so incredibly grateful for the resiliency of the mother-baby unit, especially this wild year. Thank you for including me in your birth journeys! May 2025 bring joy in your adventures and laughter in your family. And for my practice- fewer complications please 😂 🙏 😍

11/06/2024

Hello from baby land!! We had 3 amazing births this weekend- so much joy, big love, relief, driving, charting and phone calls! And very little sleep 🫠

These babies came with long hours of hard work, some uncertainty, hard decisions and also some awesome similarities. They were all girls, born on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th, and all weighing 7,15 8,0 and 8,2! 🥹

✨BFFs in the making? Triplets from another lifetime? I hope they can meet someday 😊✨

09/24/2024

Autumn equinox brought a flurry of four babies to my practice 🙏 Two boys and two girls, two home births and two hospital births. Two very fast births and two longer births. All beautiful, humbling, sacred and POWERFUL journeys for these families! Thank you forever for including me in your birth experiences.

Welcome to this beautiful world sweet babies!

09/15/2024

Today’s birth, illustrated 😍 Pretty sure this six year old artist is bound for a birthy career! And welcome to the world sweet baby M 🌈

06/12/2024

Stahhppp 🥹 🥹🥹

I love to see your little ones as they grow up! Always send more photos 😂

🤱🏼❤️❤️

06/04/2024

Weeee!

10 births in 7 weeks! And 7 of the 10 of them held some version of the theme “why the heck is this taking so long?!”

These births were awesome: there was the birth where we watched marathon back-to-back Office episodes. The baby that literally flew out so fast (after stalling forever) that I almost dropped her - from a standing position! There were delicious homemade Amish moon pie cookies. The beautiful heart shaped placenta! There was napping in all sorts of random places- lots of clients’ living rooms, the amazing St Anthony’s common room, my car at 2am with a borrowed sleeping bag, Brianne’s couch, a parking garage, and snuggled with a variety of family dogs.

And were there transfers! Holy moly there were transfers. I always tell families- I can’t guarantee any certain birth for you, but I can guarantee you’ll be educated about your choices and respected in your decision-making.

As always, thank you Shawna for your amazing energy at birth, and thank you Sharon for backing me up in case two babies came at once! (They didn’t) 😍

Mille grazie to all the absolute rock star families who choose home birth to bring your babies earthside. I’m humbled by your trust in me, and honored to be a witness to your amazing journeys.

Onward to summer births and babies!

04/09/2024

Balance…the pendulum is always in motion. For all the complications of Jan/Feb births, March brought 5 completely straightforward, fast births and healthy babies! Always giving thanks 🙏

Address

2106A Emma Lane
Salida, CO
81201

Telephone

+1 719-221-3937

Website

http://www.mountainfamilymidwifery.com/

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