Barefoot Midwifery

10/06/2025

🌻Sunflowers are one of my most favorite flowers. They’re like joy and happiness on a stem.
I had a dear friend pass away from cancer in 2022. Sunflowers were her favorite too. Since her passing, I will see sunflowers in the most unexpected places when I’m going through a hard time or asking for guidance. It can be sticker on a passing car, a pattern on a stranger’s clothes, a picture on an oracle card that I pull. All signs that my friend is still connecting with me from the other side.
During my energy healing sessions I sometimes have symbols or signs appear in my consciousness that are intended for the person I’m working on. So often I share this beautiful book that helped me connect to the universe and be more aware of the signs and synchronicities put in my path. I highly recommend you check it out if you feel called. “Signs” by Laura Lynne Jackson.

10/05/2025

☀️Morning Sunshine

For the last year or so I’ve been making it a point to get out in the morning sun. There are lots of benefits, but these are some of the reasons I do it.

☀️Increased serotonin production and elevated mood
☀️Circadian rhythm support and melatonin production
☀️Encouraging melanin production to protect the skin for higher UV exposure later in the day
☀️Vitamin D

I’ve noticed it helps my kids’ moods through out the day and helps us all start our day from a more grounded place.☀️

10/04/2025

I took my younger two kiddos to an epic fireworks show. The amount of creativity, timing, and effort put into the displays were truly amazing. It was art. While amazing, the intensity of the lights and the ear splitting explosions overwhelmed my nervous system to the point of me needing to consciously ground and tell my body I was not under attack. I couldn’t help but think about what I would do if we really were under fire, if I had to protect my children, if I needed to run and try to escape amongst thousands of other people also running for their lives.
There are humans currently experiencing that reality, as others enjoy fireworks and carnival food. Women forced to give birth in unspeakable circumstances while trying to survive. Children being raised in chaos and destruction. My own kids snuggled up close and rested their heads into me when the show was too overstimulating. I hugged them tight, grateful for their good health and our currently safe environment. Gratitude is a daily theme over here, as well as consciousness around our nervous systems. I talk to my kids daily about how they’re feeling in certain situations and environments, how it’s important to get stuck feelings out and to find moments to calm and regulate our systems.
Bodies and minds thrive in a regulated state. Women give birth more easily in a regulated state. Newborns nurse and relax in a regulated state. It’s an important topic to consider and discuss when supporting others in birth, postpartum and life in general.

10/02/2025

✨Hey! I want to celebrate my favorite month of the year by sharing more authentic and personal stuff about myself and what inspires me. Feel free to follow along if you would like to connect or learn more about this path I’m on and why I do the work that I do. Happy October, friends!🍁🎃🧡

09/24/2025

There’s something special about mama getting her girl💜

09/18/2025

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09/17/2025

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09/16/2025

Guiding women through healthy and healing pregnancies is my jam. Sometimes an adjustment to one’s lifestyle, diet or supplement routine can be all that’s needed to completely transform their experience. I would love to chat about how I can assist your pregnancy journey with truly holistic and intuitive care.

09/11/2025

Keep those babies close and loved♥️

“Did you know that Mayan families in Guatemala, consider bedsharing to be the only way to parent through the night?

Did you know that in Japan, breastfeeding and shared sleep (soine) is seen as a means to sustain connection through touch or ‘skinship’ between mother and child?

Did you know that In Bali, babies’ feet don’t touch the ground until 3 months of age?

Yet, we’re told in western culture that our babies need to sleep on their own, that we need to get our babies on a schedule and that we can ‘spoil’ them if we pick them up ‘too much’.

One of my favourite cross-cultural pieces of research to share to help us challenge the mainstream parenting narrative, comes from Dr. Charlotte Peterson. She spent forty years traveling the globe to live with local families and witness parenting practices in peaceful cultures. She observed that in Bali, babies are seen as a blessing.

At three months of age, there is a ceremony called Tiga Bulan or “three moons”. It is not until the celebration of this ceremony that a new baby’s feet touch the earth. Until that point, the baby is considered “of the heavens” and is constantly held in someone’s arms.

After the ceremony, the baby is considered “of the earth”. Although a baby can be put down and “out of arms” at this point, Charlotte has rarely seen a Balinese infant or toddler not being held or closely watched, by her parents or family members, within those first three months.

For me, it feels validating to gain a different perspective, reminding us that our instincts to hold our babies close are ancient, wise and innately human. I seek out research like this as it allows me to better understand the difference between social norms & what’s best for our babies.”

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09/08/2025

I’m proud to breastfeed.

Not because it’s easy
because it isn’t.
Not because it’s always pretty
because it’s not.
But because it’s real.

It’s the cracked ni***es,
the midnight wake-ups,
the body that feels like it doesn’t belong to you anymore.
It’s the “just one more ounce,” the endless snacks to keep up supply, the leaking when you laugh, cry, or sneeze.

It’s also the quiet, sacred moments no one else sees.
The way their tiny hand curls around my shirt.

The milk-drunk smile that makes me forget the hours of exhaustion.
The calm that washes over us both when the world finally slows down.

I’m proud, not because breastfeeding defines me, but because it’s something I chose, I fought for, and I’ve given to my child even on the hardest days.

Breastfeeding is messy, miraculous, and mine and that’s worth celebrating. 🤱💜