Mother Blooming Birth Services and Midwifery

02/24/2025

Live Free Keynote address happening now about Birth plans.

✨ Calling all midwives, doulas, and birth professionals! ✨

GOLD Midwifery Online Conference 2025 is in full swing, bringing you the latest research and clinical insights—all from the comfort of home! With 18.5 hours of accredited education, you’ll gain practical skills and fresh perspectives from top experts in the field. Learn more here: https://www.goldmidwifery.com/conference/registration

Are you attending this year? We’d love to hear from you! What’s been your biggest takeaway so far? Have you tried applying a new technique from a session? Or maybe there was a speaker who truly inspired you? Drop your thoughts in the comments! 👇

GOLD Midwifery is a fantastic resource for Midwives, Doulas and all those working in the field of Childbirth. Our incredible lineup of speakers this year includes Ruth Oshikanlu, Hazel Keedle, Nell Tharpe, Hermine Hayes-Klein, Anna Byrom, Fiona Hallinan, and many more!

With unlimited online access, you can learn when and where it works best for you—no travel needed! Plus, earn up to 17.5 ACM CPD Hours, 17.5 ACNM CEs, 17 Midwifery Contact Hours (1.7 MEAC CEUs) & 13.5 CERPs toward your certification or recertification.

Haven’t registered yet? There’s still time! Get all the details and start watching presentations today👉 https://www.goldmidwifery.com/conference/registration

05/12/2024

Happy Mother’s Day!

02/27/2023

Loving participating in the great GOLD Midwifery Online Conference.

05/21/2021

Love.

Do you know that feeling when you wake up in the middle of the night and it’s cold and your diaper feels heavy. And there are so many strange sounds all around you, and it’s dark and scary. And you get a hit in your head and it’s your hand that’s on its own adventure. And you can’t control it at all and it flings itself around and scratches your face and pulls at your hair. And your legs start kicking off the duvet, even though you’re cold as it is and you try to make it stop but they have their own will. And so you’re lying there completely helpless with flailing limbs that want to do everything, but none of the things you want.

And you can’t find mom. And you call for her and you find yourself feeling really scared. What if your beloved mom doesn’t come for you. You can’t imagine anything worse and you start to cry because you miss her so terribly. You have never felt as alone as this very moment.

And then she is suddenly there. Standing right by your bed and looking at you with worry and love. And she is the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen. And you grin up at her with happiness and relief. You don’t think you’ve ever felt as happy as this very moment.

And she picks you up and holds you close. And she smells like herself, and also a bit like you. Like milk and safety and love. And it’s the best smell in the whole entire world.

And she is warm and safe and soft and her hands caress you and she feeds you and hums your favourite tune. And you love her voice. You’ve known it far longer than you’ve really known her. It has lulled you to sleep and made you laugh and calmed you when you were distressed. It is the most beautiful voice in the whole entire world.

And you get to lie right up against her and you feel your entire body start to warm up again. And your still cold hand starts stroking her and moves up towards her neck and accidentally scratches her. Stupid uncontrollable hand. But mom doesn’t get angry. She takes your stupid hand in hers and it turns all warm again. And this is the best feeling in the world. Right here in mommy’s arms, with your hand in hers. Even the diaper doesn’t feel as horrible anymore.

And you feel your eyes getting heavy and you know that everything is okay now cause mommy is here. Your mom. Your wonderful, incredible mom who always looks after you. Night and day.
You look up at her one last time before you fall asleep. She looks tired and her eyes are closed, and yet she is still the most magnificent thing you know. How amazing that she wants to sit here with you in this moment. How amazing that she will always sit with you for a bit when you need her to.

You smile to yourself. How lucky you were that she became your mom. The most perfect mom anyone could have asked for.

You knew, even before you saw her, that she would be the best thing in the world.

Oh how you love her. Your mom.
❤️

~ The Mommy Poet (go show your appreciation on her page!)
Photo by Meghann Street Photography

07/23/2020

Breastfeeding mothers do not seem to be passing on the new coronavirus to their infants, and based on current evidence the benefits outweigh any potential risks of transmission, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

07/02/2020

You can find out more at: https://www.breastfeedingconferences.com.au/conference_details.php?conferenceId=110

06/10/2020

This latest government study shows black women still remain less likely than white women to choose to breastfeed.

03/15/2020

Keep breastfeeding...

If you or anyone you know is worried...

02/07/2020

Beautiful.

Mothers being born is a beautiful thing 🥰

02/02/2020

We need change.

This needs to be addressed.

12/02/2019

A great explanation...pass it on.

Build the Fundus by Carla Hartley:

"We think in pictures and we should be painting accurate pictures. Neither the cervix nor the va**na bloom. The cervix is not a zip lock bag. The purpose of labor is NOT the creation of an opening or a hole... The purpose of labor contractions and retractions is to BUILD the fundus, which will, when it is ready, EJECT the baby, like a piston. Without a nice thick fundus there is no power to get baby out....the cervix does not dilate out....it dilates UP as a result of the effort to pull muscles up into the uterus to push muscles up to the fundus. The cervical dilation is secondary to that. The cervix is pulled up as a result of the building of the fundus. Assigning a number to cervical dilation is of little consequence and we make a huge mistake by interpreting progress or predicting time of birth to that number. Any experienced midwife or OB can tell you that the cervix can be manipulated and that a woman whose cervix is at 7 could have the baby in a few minutes or a few hours.

If more providers and educators knew the truth about birth physiology, we could make a huge difference for mothers. What is important is to keep her well supported for the purpose of the appropriate chemistry, to keep her well hydrated and nourished for muscle strength, and to believe in her. We should be supporting her so that her physiology and that of her baby are unhindered, so they can finish what they started.

We should not be measuring, poking, or interpreting her labor. THIS CHANGE in teaching about labor could make such a difference for women who are imagining what is happening in their bodies during labor. How much more strength might they have if they have an accurate picture?" -Carla Hartley

11/18/2019

A growing body of research suggests that using midwife or doula support throughout pregnancy and during childbirth can bring health benefits, but not many women have access due to differing state laws in how midwives are recognized and what insurance can cover.