Midwifery of Austin

06/02/2025

This is great. Free water birth kits for any midwifery of austin dads who perform interpretive dance for their partners in labor through the end of 2025.

01/24/2025

We have a lot of athletes in care right now so this seems appropriate 😂 we support you continuing your regular exercise routine as long as you and baby feel up to it!

08/14/2024

04/10/2024

😏

03/10/2024

Community midwifery. It’s about building relationships with women and families that are truly supportive, and sometimes those people become your best friends, and sometimes those friends have to get pregnant again so you can resume your chuy’s lunch date tradition after a busy season of life. And sometimes you do their initial prenatal checks in the trunk of their SUV in the parking lot with other confused patrons looking on. Here’s to margaritas on me after the next 10lb toddler falls out of this gorgeous mama.

10/25/2023

Did you know that we offer all home visits for an extra $500? Less than $50 a month to have all of your care done in your home including labs. No need to pack everyone up and drag them to the office. Your little kids will thank you, my mechanic will not 😂

05/17/2023

Part 3: Im not sure if I made it clear in parts 1&2 but this story starts in 2021. These pictures were taken in the fall of 2021. Right now I’m happy and healthy I’m just catching y’all up😘
😘
The first doctor threw a week of steroids at me and said that was all she could do for me. I asked for the standard of care which was a protocol for TM put out by the Mayo Clinic and she refused. By this time I knew it was just continuing to get worse- my immune system was still attacking my spinal cord.
💙
I went to UT for a second opinion and was sent immediately across the street for what you see here. Without having to ask. 10 days of plasma exchange. It was the longest time I’ve ever spent in the hospital and I am so grateful that my new neurologist was super aggressive about treatment after the first doctor. No longer TM my disease process had progressed to a “demyelinating disease of the central nervous system” After the plasma exchange I went straight to IVIG infusions. A few weeks later I had a new MRI. The lesions were still active despite the entire Mayo Clinic protocol. S**t.

05/17/2023

A belated happy Mother’s Day to all the people who mother anyone or anything. Motherhood is so much more than just biology. It’s about love and relationships and comfort and wisdom. 🩷

05/17/2023

Part 2: I used the restroom and noticed my butt cheeks were asleep. I decided my jeans were just too tight. 🤦‍♀️ Later I noticed my feet were asleep. Must have gained so much weight that my jeans were now cutting off circulation to my feet. 🤷‍♀️ the next day my calves were asleep and I asked if maybe the amazing post-divorce s*x could have caused some kind of weird va**na spasm that made my feet numb. (Hey it’s weird being the patient when you’re a provider all the logic and knowledge just goes p**f!!!) When Rebecca said it sounded neurological my heart sank. Later that night it was creeping more and I decided to just go to the ER. I was calm until they weren’t calm and then I was pretty sure it was real bad. I cried in the MRI machine. How was this fair? I just finished a stressful divorce. It was time for me to find myself, and enjoy life. The MRIs showed nothing. Over the next few days I stayed in the hospital as it crept up my legs daily. I would google and ask questions and nobody had answers for me. I could barely walk assisted. I couldn’t sit down anymore, I fell to my seat, I fell to the toilet. The week before I had been working out and lifting weights and it was like those muscles were just … gone. Instantly. My body forgot how to use them. ALWAYS GET A SECOND OPINION. It took 6 weeks and me begging for help from the neurologist for her to order a “repeat” scan- this time with contrast. (Which she should have done from the beginning) I was finally diagnosed! 1/8million transverse myelitis. I instantly started researching and found a neurologist at UT Dell that might be able to help me. I met a colleague of hers instead and I can say without a doubt that doctor saved my life.

05/11/2023

I know how difficult putting yourself first can be when you are a mom. You pour everything you have into these little people because you love them more than anything. It took me a minute to figure this out, but when you fill your cup first, you actually end up having more to give them.
💙
🩷
💙
🩷
💙
🩷
💙
🩷
💙