Jen Courtney Midwife

Jen Courtney Midwife Providing gentle, family-centered midwifery care in the Shreveport-Bossier area.

This is not meant to disparage formula feeding. It's simply a safety announcement. There has been a recall on infant for...
11/17/2025

This is not meant to disparage formula feeding. It's simply a safety announcement. There has been a recall on infant formula: ByHeart Whole Nutrition. If you have any on hand, do not feed it to your baby.

Details on an outbreak of infant botulism linked to infant formula, November 2025.

11/17/2025

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We have a new practitioner in our office! So excited to have Haley with us!
11/15/2025

We have a new practitioner in our office! So excited to have Haley with us!

BIG EXCITING NEWS! Lots of new amazing things are happening!🤩

11/14/2025

Have you heard about midwives and doulas and thought, "Those exist? What's even the difference? Wait, you can have home births in Louisiana? How does that even work?"

Yes, we do exist! And Sierra with Call The Doula and myself will be offering a class about doula and homebirth options via zoom on Friday, November 21st at 9:30am. We hope to answer all your questions!

Even if you can't attend in real time, the class will be recorded, so if you sign up to participate you will have the opportunity to listen at your convenience.

To sign up, go to this link: https://MidwiferyCareLouisiana.as.me/QAHomeBirthOptions

Please feel free to comment questions below! I would love to see some ideas from those who have already used a doula or birthed at home!

10/26/2025
October is breast cancer awareness month, so let's start out with one of the most important things we can do to help scr...
10/01/2025

October is breast cancer awareness month, so let's start out with one of the most important things we can do to help screen for breast cancer and it's the most natural and organic thing possible. No particular schedule. No prescribed method. It's just knowing your own body. Get to know your breasts and pay attention to them. If you notice any changes, talk to your practitioner.

80% of young patients diagnosed with breast cancer find it themselves.

Breast cancer is not just a menopause thing. It can happen during the childbearing years; it can even happen during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

However it is treatable, and survival (and THRIVING) rates are amazing and rising. The earlier it's caught, the better. Let's keep learning, keep spreading awareness, and keep supporting each other. If you have questions or need help accessing resources, you can always reach out to me.

In fact, a is not an exam at all — it’s a form of breast self-awareness. Breast self-awareness is about knowing what’s normal for your own breasts, so you can notice any changes right away. Unlike monthly breast exams, you don’t have to follow a schedule or memorize a set of instru...

09/04/2025
08/29/2025
Always bittersweet archiving a chart. They (all of them...client, baby, partner) made it all the way through their pregn...
08/27/2025

Always bittersweet archiving a chart. They (all of them...client, baby, partner) made it all the way through their pregnancy and birth and postpartum. They are thriving and now discharged from my care. I'm so proud of their strength and grace and resolve as they navigated their epic journey (whatever it threw at them) and I'm honored to have supported them through it. And now I take this record of it all and tuck it in a safe place, literally behind lock and key, and protect it until this precious babe reaches adulthood. So I send them off knowing they are going to rock at life and I'll get to run into them occasionally or see pics on Facebook. But also, in the background, I still have a tiiiny role as guardian of their beginnings. And I don't take that lightly.

07/28/2025

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Shreveport, LA
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Monday 9am - 2pm
Tuesday 9am - 2pm
Wednesday 9am - 2pm
Thursday 9am - 2pm
Friday 9am - 2pm

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My Story

I started out as an EMT. I was in love with all things biology, but especially loved the idea of being there for people in those life-changing moments; offering calm, efficient assistance when it was critical. Looking back, though, it makes more sense that I ended up a midwife. When I was a kid, and we were playing mommas with baby dolls under our shirts, I was always the one “delivering” the babies. But even as a child, I had a love for natural therapies too... I was forever tromping in the woods, trying to learn which plants were edible, which ones were poison, which ones were medicine. In EMT school, I devoured articles on the use of hypnosis in trauma treatment, or how meditation affected cancer. Herbal remedies, meditation, compassionate healing touch; I believed in those things as much as I believed in heart surgery and antibiotics. When I found myself pregnant with my first child, I drove 115 miles, across state lines to employ the services of a midwife. It was worth it. My out-of-hospital birth was everything I wanted. As I spent those early years raising my child, I dipped my toes in the waters (pun totally intended) by working part time as a doula. It satiated my need to be there for people, but it was just a side gig, something to get me by until I could go back to my real career.

until...

one day...

I was offered an apprenticeship to study midwifery. My preceptor saw in me the ability to intervene quickly when circumstances warranted it, but also to allow things to unfold naturally without unnecessary fiddling. I will forever appreciate her seeing that midwifery would be a good fit for me and that I would be a good fit for midwifery. I couldn’t ignore the call to be a midwife; to marry my technical medical skill with my love for nature; to stand with someone at that moment when they transition to a new place in their lives; to provide holistic, compassionate, one-on-one, individualized care.