Simply HomeBirth Midwifery Services

05/11/2026

Happy Mother’s Day-Photos of Mother’s helping mothers through childbirth

It's hard not to tear up at generations of parents supporting each other.

12/18/2025

"People imagine a nurse quits after one traumatic night or a tragic patient death. That is not how it happens."

11/07/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/health/electronic-fetal-monitoring-c-sections.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE8.OBYA.c1ExIS9iVha8&smid=url-share

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns, The Times found.

08/03/2025

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced it will no longer accept government funds due to “recent changes in federal funding laws and regulations.”

08/03/2025

The author worked as a nurse midwife in the 1960s, helping women deliver their babies in the mountains of Kentucky. This photo was taken during the making of a film about the work midwives were doing in Leslie County, Kentucky.

The author worked as a nurse midwife in the 1960s, helping women deliver their babies in the mountains of Kentucky. This photo was taken during the making of a film

02/11/2025

“Why is it so hard for our society to grasp the realness of birth?”

11/19/2024

https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/columnists/maternal-health-care-must-be-improved-not-politicized-column/article_5a32a660-a288-11ef-8fa1-6ba27657e274.html

In a nation divided — where 76 million American citizens voted for Donald Trump’s reelection while 73 million Americans voted to keep Kamala Harris in the White House — I

06/27/2024

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2024/06/27/midwifery-maternity-care-desert-health-birth-center/stories/202406270033

Babies are our future, and that means our nation's future depends on every expectant mother having access to quality maternity care. Unfortunately, many...

04/26/2024

“…Penny’s biggest gift was daring people to imagine the childbirth care we all deserve.
Penny’s work inspired everything I do,” said Dr. Neel Shah, now chief medical officer at the Maven Clinic, the world’s largest virtual clinic for women and families, and a former professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Harvard Medical School.

As a childbirth educator and maternal advocate, she promoted a profession that provides comfort to women giving birth and offers postpartum care as well.

12/18/2023

Abby Phillip reflects on her midwife-attended home birth, amidst the maternal mortality crisis that disproportionately affects Black women and demands multifaceted solutions.

03/31/2023

Most twins do not need to be born via cesarean section. Period. You have choices and deserve explanations when those choices are resisted.
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We need to normalize photos like this and take fear out of twin birth!
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Link in bio for one of my blogs about a birth center twin birth.
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