by wfbirth | Dec 15, 2020 | Uncategorized, WF Birth
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...
by wfbirth | Dec 1, 2020 | Uncategorized, WF Birth
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...
by wfbirth | Nov 22, 2020 | Uncategorized, WF Birth
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...
by wfbirth | Nov 15, 2020 | Uncategorized, WF Birth
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...
by wfbirth | Nov 8, 2020 | Uncategorized, WF Birth
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...
by wfbirth | Nov 1, 2020 | Uncategorized, WF Birth
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...
