In November of 2005 I was at work at the Pregnancy Resource Center where I was the Executive Director. I think they call it a CEO now but anyway the volunteers and staff had left for the day and I was finishing paperwork in my office. I had been using natural family...
-Wendy Fowler, LM, CPM The best way to deal with Covid during pregnancy to prevent infection. Even here there are mixed opinions. The following are suggestions you can research and implement into your own family. Please take this seriously, it may have a large effect...
After two textbook pregnancies with “natural” (no epidurals but small doses of Stadol, an IV narcotic), our third baby came in true “wild card” fashion. It was 2003 and we’d just moved into Bowie from nearby Sunset. Ashlyn was six and Hope was two years old. I spent...
My best emotional advice to all new moms is to journal their birth stories. We think we’ll always remember every single detail, but time fades some of our details and may even blend them together. I am very inconsistent when it comes to journaling but I try to...
While recently leading the Wichita Falls Birth & Wellness Center’s newly implemented Client Orientation Class, I laughed and said, “I don’t know, maybe I’m not all that hippie.” The participants, who’d known me all of 47 minutes, laughed bigger and said, “Oh yes...
Congratulations, you’re pregnant! You’ve been reading birth stories and waiting for it to be your turn. You knew you’d like to give birth at a birth center so as a responsible patient, you’ve submitted your referral paperwork to get all your ducks in a row. You call...
We have a large family and except for the last two, they’re all about three years apart. That means as soon as one was mastering potty training (Yay! No more diapers!), I was pregnant with the next one. Maybe our celebration of this milestone should have been an ice...
Have you ever thought about how mothers parented well before the modern inventions of the Pack and Play, baby swings, cribs and other devices meant to hold children in a safe place? How did frontier families deal with their 10-month-old crawler? Throughout the...
Herbs are an age old friend to the midwife and there’s a new trend using them right now and I’m loving it! It’s called NORA Tea and I can’t wait for you to fall in love with it too! We’ve always known that our bodies are designed to obtain nutrients best from real...
How did you hear about the birth center and what made you decide to consider giving birth there? I heard about a birth center being in the works while I was taking Bradley Birth classes during my first pregnancy, and it opened about a year after I had my second child....
How did you hear about the birth center and what made you decide to consider giving birth there? While I was pregnant with my first, a friend from college recommended chiropractic care. I googled prenatal chiropractic care and found Dr. Guidry (what a blessing this...
We are excited to launch our brand new client orientation! For years I’ve felt we are letting some prime time slip by when we don’t get to educate moms and dads on some very important things before they come in for their first visit around 10-12 weeks. Many moms call...
