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Lilac City Midwifery strives to empower, educate, nurture, and protect the women and families who are in our care.

07/02/2025

Join us for Lilac City Midwifery’s 10 Year Anniversary Picnic on July 19th at Audubon Park from 11AM–3PM!

Past and present clients + families AND all local birth workers are all welcome for a laid-back day of food, fun, and community. We’ll bring the fried chicken, you bring a side to share!

We have so many fun things planned including a bouncy house, Photo Booth, giveaways from local businesses and even a “tattoo booth” 😅. Pulling out all the stops for this community because you deserve to be celebrated! ✨

RSVP via the link in our bio or via the apple invite located in the Lilac Events Highlight.

Details + map in the post

06/16/2025

If your baby is posterior (a.k.a. sunny side up), labor might look a little like this. Intense, slow to progress, and possibly full of back labor. 😓

That’s why having a birth team who understands fetal positioning is everything. The right support can make all the difference in helping baby rotate and making labor more manageable. 💫

Shoutout to one of our favorite doulas, , pictured here doing what she does best with compassion, skill, and serious know-how. 💗

Was your baby posterior? Did you use any of these techniques in your labor? Drop your experience in the comments. 👇

05/12/2025

Save the date Lilac Families! 💜

Join us for Lilac City Midwifery’s 10 Year Anniversary Picnic on July 19th at Audubon Park from 11AM–3PM! Past and present clients + families are all welcome for a laid-back day of food, fun, and community. We’ll bring the fried chicken—you bring a side to share!
RSVP via the link in our bio or text 509.671.5931.
Details + map in the post!

05/08/2025

This placenta gets a spot on my feed foreverrrr!

I’ve got to go check some records to be sure but I think it’s the longest cord I have ever seen measuring 45” which is about double the length of a normal umbilical cord. And would you believe it was only wrapped around its baby once?!

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04/30/2025

Breech Birth Story

At 38 weeks, this couple found out their baby was breech.
They had been planning a home birth with another midwife, but because breech birth wasn’t within her comfort zone — especially for a first-time mom — they were referred to me.

Just six days after our consultation, labor began.
She arrived at 6cm, working hard through intense back pain — the kind I usually only see with posterior babies. It surprised me. Breech babies don’t usually cause back labor.
Trusting my instincts but wanting to double-check, I reached out to praying she’d see my message. She did. Her advice?
“As long as the baby is doing well continue to support her as you would if the baby were cephalic.”

I created a movement circuit to help baby drop lower and hopefully shift the pain out of her back.
Her husband was her rock — there for every contraction, every position change, every hard moment.
Still, no matter what we did, the pain stuck. And despite her strength, exhaustion started to set in at 9cm — with baby still at negative station in the pelvis.
She wasn’t sure she could keep going.
We knew she could. We prayed with her and over her and her baby. We asked for God’s guidance.

We asked her to try one more intense circuit.
She said yes.
We had her literally upside down, shaking her pelvis through contractions — raw, primal, powerful work.
After that circuit, she got on the birth stool — and everything shifted.
Her water broke.
The baby began to descend.
I saw that beautiful little breech bottom emerging, and I quickly ran through every maneuver in my mind, preparing for anything — but also hearing God’s voice quietly reassure me:
“I’ve got this. She’s got this.”

She pushed her baby all the way out to the head on the birth stool.
Then moved to hands and knees, where with a simple chest press, her baby was born — powerfully, beautifully, safely.
She scooped him up and held him close, right there, right where he was meant to be. (Continued in comments).

04/23/2025

Since I announced my giveaway (including an authentic Mexican rebozo!) my DMs have been full of questions about how I utilize Rebozos in my practice — so I wanted to share a few ways they’re part of my work.

I use traditional Mexican rebozos in midwifery practice to support alignment, create space, and involve partners in meaningful ways. Each client receives one as a gift to use through their third trimester, labor, and postpartum.

We often use them to help baby tuck in toward the spine and encourage engagement, support deep squats, and look beautiful while doing it. Because beauty and function can — and should — go hand in hand. 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩶🤍🤎

04/02/2025

This girl deserved a spot of her own on my feed. Quite possibly one of the most incredible placentas I’ve ever seen in person. Total surprise for both me and the mother—every scan had shown dichorionic, diamniotic twins with two separate placentas. But when she arrived? One beautiful placenta with two sacs. You all know how I love a good placenta moment… and this one did not disappoint. ❤️

03/29/2025

Guess who was breech?

This little one’s legs are still rocking that breech baby energy.

Let’s be real: too many women are told a breech baby at term means an automatic cesarean. It doesn’t always have to!

This mama was told her only option with her provider was a cesarean—even after two vaginal births. No conversation, no alternatives. She chose differently, switched to my care at 36 weeks, and three weeks later, birthed her breech baby with confidence, support, and autonomy.

You deserve real information. You deserve options. You deserve the chance to see what your body can do.

I can’t promise outcomes—but I can promise to support you in exploring your options, understanding your rights, and making the choices that feel right for you and your baby.

03/26/2025

Happy World Doula Week!

I couldn’t let this week pass without taking the opportunity to honor the role of doulas in the birth space.

I’m especially grateful for the beautiful community of doulas here in the Spokane area. You are such a vital part of Lilac births, and I feel deeply honored to serve alongside you. Your presence, your heart, and your calling matter so much.

To every doula showing up with heart, strength, and grace: thank you.
You are seen. You are needed. You are changing the world—one birth at a time.

I’ve tagged some of my very favorite doulas below—please go show them some love!

03/21/2025

These two.

They worked so hard, together, to bring their baby into the world—the victory is palpable!

If your partner was there through every step of labor, I want to hear about it. Drop a comment and tell me what that support meant to you.

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03/13/2025

TWINS 💫💫

I’m not even going to pretend to hide my excitement about these babies. Although I’ve cared for several sets of twins over the last two years, these are the first I’ve had the privilege of supporting through an out-of-hospital birth—a truly incredible milestone for Lilac City Midwifery and for me as a midwife.

This mama showed incredible strength, carrying her twins to 39 weeks and birthing them so beautifully. Twin A arrived breech, followed by Twin B head down—both safe, strong, and absolutely perfect.

💜 Twin A: 6lbs 6oz
💜 Twin B: 7lbs 1oz

I am beyond proud of this woman and honored to witness such a powerful, physiological birth. It takes so much faith and strength to go against the status quo as she did, if she can, I can and YOU can. 💪

📷 + Doula:

02/19/2025

We can never predict what our moments of healing will look like, but if we could, we might predict they look something like this 💫

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Spokane, WA
99203

Telephone

+15094139093

Website

http://www.lilaccitymidwifery.com/

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Lilac City Midwifery is a Spokane based home birth practice owned me, Rebekah Alice, LM. I do prenatal care out of my super cozy tiny house. I offer complete home birth services including prenatal, labor and delivery, postpartum and newborn care. I keep my client volume low so that I can know that I will have time to invest into each client and build a relationship with them. My ultimate goal whenever I begin care with a client is to have a safe a peaceful birth and for my clients to feel informed, supported and empowered.