Redemption Midwifery

08/21/2025

Sad to hear of Michael Odent's passing! He changed the way many saw birth!

We are saddened to hear news of the passing of Michel Odent, whose vision and writing reshaped the way we understand human birth.

Michel Odent reminded us that birth is not a medical procedure to be controlled, but a primal rythm to be respected. He advocated for home-like maternity units, warm water births, protecting the birthing woman's privacy and honouring her instincts, undisturbed contact between mother and newborn; he was among the first to discuss the importance of the microbiome, and question many of the practices that had (and have) become normalised in overmedicalised maternity systems globally.

Michel Odent's legacy lives on in every dimmed, quiet birthing room, and in every midwife his words and work inspired to join our profession.

Thank you, Michel, for your passion, vision and committment to women and newborns.

Photo: Xavier Caré / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA

08/14/2025

Today we celebrate our 4th BIRTHday, along with sweet Ellie, our first Redemption Midwifery baby! Happy BIRTHday sweet Ellie! We are so blessed by all the amazing families that welcome us in to their homes and hearts. 4 years later, we've welcomed 120 babies, which has included three sets of twins and one breech baby. Unfortunately we cannot knowingly attend either here in Florida! We love each and every one of you and look forward to meeting all the sweet babies currently in care. We are working on some events to build community!

Thank you all for trusting us to serve your growing families.

08/13/2025

COMING SOON!

"The Midwife's Couch"

a place to build community, a safe space, a place to connect, to grow, to share, to learn, to be

Stay tuned for upcoming events!

08/11/2025

"A blue butterfly symbolizes transformation, peace, rare beauty, and hope for positive change.". - *Unknown Author*

This is so much of what birth and motherhood is! Hence the blue butterflies in our logo!

07/01/2025

2025 Redemption Midwifery MID YEAR Birth Outcomes!

A mid year review!

THANK YOU to all the families who invited us in to your hearts and homes as your families are growing and trusted us to support you. It truly is an honor to serve each and every family!

My heart continues to grieve with the families whose little ones went to heaven far too early!

We took some much needed time off at the beginning of this year and are mostly booked each month for the rest of the year. We have a few spots open though so please reach out if you're hoping to have a home birth with us this year.

We love when our families receive their babies into their own hands, which 9 moms or dads did, meaning I did not touch the babies as they came earth side, resulting in many more intact perinieums.

We are super blessed and excited for all the families we will serve the rest of 2025 and into 2026!

We are booking as soon as families find out they are pregnant, so please call sooner than later if you're planning to use our service.

HUGE thank you to my AMAZING birth assistants - Allie, Ella, Alisha, and Laura! I truly could not do this without each of you! Thank you for loving and caring so well for each of our families!

05/29/2025

Amazing

05/28/2025

Seriously when is the medical system going to recognize that EVERY baby deserves their umbilical cord to be left intact for way longer then 2 minutes.

Sweden just did a randomized trial studying the effects of leaving the cord intact for 3 minutes compared to 10 seconds. The findings will blow your mind!!! Especially if you DON'T think it is a big deal.

"Delayed cord clamping compared with early cord clamping improved scores and reduced the number of children having low scores in fine-motor skills and social domains," the study's lead author, Dr. Ola Andersson of Uppsala University in Sweden, and his co-authors said in Tuesday's issue of JAMA Pediatrics.

This quote says it all... Basically they screw things up, by messing with birth, then they make it impossible to change protocol.

"In medical circles, cord clamping has been common for about 60 years under the mistaken belief it could reduce the risk of hemorrhage. It's a psychological hurdle for doctors to change the practice, Rabe said."

I could quote the entire article but that would make this post really long. Instead just take a moment and go read it. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/kids-motor-and-social-skills-improve-when-cord-clamping-delayed-at-birth-1.3088257

The only way to make change is for the consumer (THAT IS YOU) to make them change practice. Inform your friends and your care provider and don't settle for anything less.

Here is my post with images to help you visualize what they are doing when they cut the umbilical cord early. tiny.cc/intactcord

05/14/2025

Who would like to receive some FREE CFT for their infant???

BOOKING now for FREE craniosacral fascia therapy (CFT) Monday June 2- Wednesday June 4.

We recommend coming for MULTIPLE sessions!

Please email Christine@redemptionmidwifery.com or Call 202.702.9661 for more Information and to book your session(s).

You can also visit website for more information: https://www.craniosacralfascialtherapy.com/

If you work with babies, PLEASE share what with your clients! This means all chiros, physical therapist, doulas, midwives, lactation consultants, etc!

05/03/2025

Background Delaying cord clamping (CC) for 3-5 minutes reduces iron deficiency and improves neurodevelopment. Data on the effects of CC beyond 3 minutes in relation to short-term neonatal outcomes a...

04/24/2025

ISO:
8 massage tables to borrow 5/30-6/4
for a local CFT training those dates.
Please DM if you can loan a table for that time frame or if you could loan 5/30-6/1 or 6/2-6/4. TIA

04/06/2025

HOW AMAZING IS THIS!?!?! 😍

Dried breast milk resembles a placenta, mammary glands and the tree of life ♥️

04/03/2025

If you work in a hospital as a midwife or obstetrician, you may be expected to ‘get the baby out’ within 60 seconds of the birth of the head. There can be an expectation that the baby be born within the space of one contraction.

I have personally been mentored by private midwives and have only watched physiological births at home to learn how to sit with birth, so for a long time I assumed that everyone just waited for the second contraction for the shoulders to be born… turns out, many midwives and obstetricians will put their hands on the babies head to try and put traction/pressure on the babies head to bring the shoulders out within the same contraction.

One of the concerns is that if the shoulders aren’t born soon after the head, that they must be stuck and that the baby is experiencing a shoulder dystocia…but that can’t be true, because most of the births I attend follow a two-step method where we just wait for the second contraction for the shoulders and all those babies didn’t have a shoulder dystocia

There is research on this (of course) and Zhang et al in 2017 did a randomised controlled clinical trial to compare a one-step method with a two-step method.

The control group had the one-step method where the clinician used their hands to speed up the birth of the shoulders, the study group had a two-step approach where the clinician just allowed the baby to be born over 2 contractions

The two-step group had ZERO incidence of shoulder dystocia and no increase in neonatal asphyxia compared to the one-step group. The one step group had 4 shoulder dystocia incidents.

The two-step approach allows physiological birth to unfold, acknowledges the cardinal movements of the baby through the pelvis and allows the time for the shoulders to get into position before they are born to allow for a less complicated birth.

By speeding up and trying to manually manipulate the baby out if it’s mother we interrupt the babies manoeuvres through the pelvis and potentially create incidences of shoulder dystocia.