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East Texas Birth Co

Licensed midwifery care offering home & water births. Vaginal breech advocate & provider.

10/27/2025

Midwifery isn’t just about catching babies, it’s about walking with families through one of the biggest transformations of their lives. It’s about developing personal relationships, ones that hopefully last well after care is done.

Every visit, every heartbeat, every question it all matters.

If you’ve been thinking about midwifery care but aren’t sure where to start, let’s talk 💜 You deserve care that feels personal, safe, and centered on you.

I still have some early 2026 availability, and I’d love to show you how incredible midwifery care can be!

10/24/2025

I am deeply passionate about changing the language and culture surrounding birth. I want to see it shift away from fear and anxiety, to empowerment and knowledge. Let’s recognize what a privilege it is to lift up other women as they prepare to walk through the journey of birth and motherhood.

Whether it was something you wish someone had told you, something that surprised you, or a lesson you learned the hard way, share your best “I wish I’d known” in the comments!

Your words might be exactly what another mom needs to hear today 🫶🏻

10/19/2025

Midwives notoriously have a very high divorce rate. This job is HARD on our families. We are often running out on dinner, dates, birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and sometimes even more intimate moments 😬. Our kids sacrifice a lot, our husbands sacrifice a lot, and then they’re left standing there to try and juggle all the plates without any idea of when their partner will return.

Today is my 12th wedding anniversary and my husband did not marry a midwife. I wasn’t even a doula when we got married. I didn’t have an on call schedule at all. He didn’t know what he was getting into when we said “I do”, but I’m thankful every day for how he shows up to support this midwife life.

Because I stepped away from the birth center, it made the end of the year unusually slow for me. I’ve gotten to enjoy a lot of fantastic and intentional time with my family, and I’ve been so grateful for the rest! This morning my husband and I took off to St. Louis just to catch a hockey game because it fell on our anniversary and we could. It is so important to me to protect and invest in my marriage amongst the chaos of this calling. To make sure that he also feels like a priority, even when we haven’t slept in the same bed at the same time for a week. I know that because of him my kids and my life outside of work are handled, and that my focus can be 100% where it needs to be when I’m called away. Happy Anniversary to my best friend, and the man who keeps my life running when I’m running around ETX 🫶🏻

10/09/2025

Midwives have to plan their vacations (or conferences) WAY in advance, so here is the 2026 calendar notice.

I am committing to the Classical Midwifery conference (what I just came back from) that will be early September 2026. So late August due dates and likely most of September due dates will be referred.

November 2026 I am committing to the Born Free Twin/Breech conference that is usually hosted in KY but will be in Austin 🙌🏻🫶🏻. I will accept November EDD with the understanding that I will have a solid backup on call, and will plan to make the drive back if possible.

I’m looking forward to an exciting year of learning and serving a community I love so much. Happy Birthing ETX 💙.

10/05/2025

I’m so grateful for the opportunities midwifery has brought — the people I’ve met, the conversations I’ve had, and the perspectives I’ve gained along the way.

Getting to chat with Shawn Walker about breech birth and midwifery on the River Thames, with Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in the background? Unreal 💜

It was an absolute honor to listen, learn, and share about something so near and dear to my heart. Her work and research continue to make vaginal breech birth safer and more accessible around the world.

I am forever in awe of the privilege to grow, learn, and serve as a midwife. Here’s to continued research, collaboration, and keeping birth options safe and accessible for every family.

09/30/2025

Leaving Chania with a heart full of gratitude. What an absolute privledge to come learn at the feet of such incredible midwives. I’m coming back with so many new things to incorporate into my practice, and a renewal for how deeply important this calling is.
We have one more stop on our trip before finally heading home but here are a few of my favorite take aways.
- Midwives all over the world are dealing with the same things. Sure, we all have different struggles depending on what part of the world we live… but midwifery is the same.
- Italian coffee is for me and I will miss it deeply. Greek coffee is not for me 😆, but I enjoyed the experience anyways.
- Don’t ever underestimate connection. One of my favorite classes was on the importance of midwifery friendships and community.
- Baby midwives bring more than we think sometimes, and I had an opportunity to pour into an elder midwife who had poured into me. This work is full circle.
- Continue to take care of me, so I can take care of you. I want to be around for a long time.

I am going to enjoy my last few days of exploring the world, but I am excited to get back home to my babies and my practice.

Final note, peep my new cat! 😂😻 I couldn’t leave Greece without one.

09/29/2025

The last day of the conference, and they’re speaking my love language! 🙌🏻💜

09/25/2025

Made it to the Classical Midwifery Conference in Chania, Greece 💜🙌🏻

I’m looking forward to a few days of learning mixed with relaxing, and quality time with other midwives and birth workers.

09/23/2025

Quick recap of stop number ✌🏻, Athens! 💙
Acropolis. Kitties. Hiking. Prison of Socrates. More kitties. Greek yogurt. Incredible views! 🙌🏻

On another note, this trip has 1000% solidified that I am hopelessly directionally challenged and I don’t ever need to stop doing the 37 week home visits 😂. I’d say y’all pray for my husband but he keeps letting me route us and following knowing I’ve walked us in the wrong direction at least 12 times… So at this point he’s just asking for it 😆.

09/20/2025

Started the trip with a visit to the Trevi Fountain and iced coffee! Plus look, my husband got to come too! Usually he stays behind when I travel for work, but I was able to drag him on an 11 hour flight to Italy! (He hates to fly.) While I’m here I will get to tour a Roman birth center and spend some time with the lovely midwife who owns it.
If you have any must do recommendations while we are here I’d love them! 💜

09/19/2025

September 15th made 3 years that I’ve been a licensed midwife 💙. This week has been so crazy trying to prep for this trip, that the date passed me right by and I didn’t even realize. I thought about just letting it go, but I couldn’t. This work is too big, too important, too ingrained in me. It is also the whole reason for this trip! I’m headed for a few days of fun, and a few days of learning! I’m so thankful for this life, this work, and now this opportunity to travel for midwifery. Midwifery has given me some of the best days of my life, the best memories, and the best families to care for. It’s also given me some of the hardest days to walk through, and still I’m thankful for the privilege it is to support women and families on their best and worst days. Midwifery also pays for my kids dance classes, the food on our table, and the gas in my car. It is such an honor to be hired and trusted to care for a community I love so much, and I want to always make sure that one of the things midwifery pays for is continuing my education and skills. So here I am waiting (in my Reteach Breech shirt 😉) to take off on an adventure to learn from midwives all over the world, and bring more skills and knowledge to this practice I pour my heart and soul into. See y’all in 11ish hours to show y’all what I’m up to!

09/18/2025

Welcoming Miss Parker was a whirlwind for birth, and then the most calm and peaceful postpartum. Once she was ready she gave very little warning and barely even let me get in the house let alone get gloves on 😂. In 5 years she is only the second baby I’ve ever caught without an assist, but thankfully Courtney was right behind me! I never (intentionally) attend births alone, there’s always an assist/midwife with me that I trust. I am not at all surprised that Parker broke the rules though, even from day 1 😆. Born 10 years to the day after her big brother, she was welcomed into such a fun family that I adore!

Welcome to the world Parker Jude, your midwife loves you! 💜 and your big sister Pudge because she’d be mad at me if I forgot to mention her 🤪🥰

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844 S Fleishel Avenue
Tyler, TX
75703

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http://Etxbirthco.com/

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