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...
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...
Ever wonder what kind of inside scoop a midwife would give you about pregnancy, birth, baby care and her relationship with you? Read on for the good, the bad, and the ugly! We love to educate and give you options. Sometimes we may overdo it and sometimes we may be...
One of the first programs we set up before we opened in 2017 was Tribe Talk. I’d spent years as a doula hearing the following sentiments from my clients: “My mom doesn’t understand why I’d want a doula. She doesn’t even understand why I don’t want an epidural.” “I’m...
Why I Don’t Say “TOLAC” A great life long friend asked me how my TOLAC went. I love this friend and she’s probably going to read this, so if you do Andy, know that I love you I just don’t like some of the common verbiage used around birth. TOLAC means Trial of Labor...
7:15 am: I awoke to the chime reminding me it’s time to workout. I double-check my phone to make sure I’ve not missed any messages during the night. I skip working out on Mondays but now I was fifteen minutes behind my normal wakeup time. I get up to start the coffee...
At the WFB&WC we love doulas! Doulas serve such a great purpose giving moms and dads reassurance and education both in pregnancy and in birth. Because doulas do not perform any medical tasks, they can zero in solely on the emotional, physical, and educational...
