WomanKind Midwifery, PLLC

03/16/2025

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10/26/2024

(Sound advice, shared from another midwife)

My top 16 ways to avoid a crummy birth experience:

1. Choose your provider carefully. Don't make assumptions.

2. If you aren't in labor, it is not too late to revisit #1

3. Don't try to kickstart labor without a clear indication.

4. Consider hiring a doula.

5. Choose your doula wisely.

6. Don't invite people to your birth unless they support you unconditionally and you are willing to p**p in front of them.

7. Choose your birth setting carefully. Make sure that you feel comfortable before anyone else does.

8. Avoid childbirth methods and rules. In fact, avoid all opportunities for guilt.

9. Visualize your birth without putting yourself in a box. (i.e. Waterbirth is great but so is land birth)

10. Don't jump the gun. Early labor is most often best ignored. Inform the people who need informing and go about your business. Be okay with it needing to take some time.

11. Spend your last month of pregnancy preparing for the first two weeks postpartum. This should be your recovery and exploratory time. It matters...a lot.

12. Pick your battles. Choose the five things that matter the most to you about your birth and ensure that all involved are okay with those things. If not, see #1.

13. Avoid listening to everyone. Listen to you first, your provider (whom you chose carefully) second, and any other needed voices (including your partner) as needed. Too many opinions equal too much confusion.

14. Avoid telling people, who are not integral, your exact due date, or the moment you go into labor. Consider waiting to announce your birth until hours after. Labor and the early postpartum hours should be completely unencumbered.

15. Spend pregnancy working through fears, worries, hopes, and dreams. Be in touch with you. Don't negate your feelings. Walk, stretch, laugh, sing. Be outside. Eat good food. Be mindful of this part...it only happens once.

16. Labor as unhindered as possible. All the talking should have happened by now. Do labor and nothing else when #10 is no longer possible. Dim the lights. Turn on the birth mix. Shoo the talkers and gawkers. Do only this.

11/15/2022

Let us bring out the kid in you!

This. Is. Homebirth.

One of the benefits of home birth is you are free to move around your house and labor however and wherever you want to.

You can squat at the kitchen counter.
You can push on the toilet.
You can rest on your side on the couch.

You can eat your own snacks and shower in your own bathroom.

You can just let birth happen and your birth team will follow you with underpads and patiently waiting arms.

Mama, trust yourself and let birth happen. You got this! ❤️❤️❤️

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11/15/2022

Here's what's going on inside.

Just a little picture of how things look when you’re carrying another human. ❤️

11/13/2022

Another benefit of home birth. Your toddler gets to be involved and create a bond with her baby brother right from the start.

10/04/2022

The midwife effect

09/27/2022

It really did!

🤣🤣

07/07/2022

Truth.

06/05/2022

Was honored to participate in my Japanese client's traditional Okuizome, or 1st feeding ceremony. Done when the baby is 100 days old. We give them a taste of sushi, rice, custard by touching chopsticks to food and touching baby's gums. I was asked to substitute for the grandma, who is in Japan.

04/07/2022

01/13/2022

Normal midwife stuff

If an OB can get a pregnant patient cared for in 10 minutes or less, what do we do with all the other 50 minutes in your midwifery appointments with us??

I might lay down on the ground with my pelvic model and point at my butt while explaining how your posture influences your baby’s position in pregnancy. (Normal midwife stuff 😂)

We might spend 10 whole minutes palpating your baby’s position with you during your exam, really making sure you know what your own hands are feeling in there so you can connect with her again at home in between your visits with us.

We may take up half the appointment counseling you on your options for gestation diabetes screening, including refusing the whole thing. (What? Options? Refusing?? )

We might designate an entire visit to postpartum planning and helping you get a course of action in place for much more help and support with your upcoming postpartum time than you had with your first baby.

We may practice stretches to alleviate that pesky sciatic pain, massage your round ligaments for you, practice relaxation techniques or just turn the lights low while you lay down and listen to our suggestions for getting better sleep.

It’s care that can not be replaced with a handout, with a zoom call, with your mother’s advice, or a google search.

It’s care that catches the first onset of a complication and works immediately to bring your pregnancy back into normal.

It’s care that listens, care that feels, care that checks up on you in between appointments to see if the remedy we suggested is working.

It’s not above and beyond care, my friends. It’s the base and basics of what women who grow humans need and deserve. It’s the foundation for confident parenting and connection in a growing family.

It’s our undeniable pleasure and absolute privilege to provide such a meaningful model of care. ♥️

01/06/2022

Twice as nice!