Hands and Hearts Birth & Wellness

11/04/2025

11/02/2025

10/30/2025

In the hands of someone with training and an understanding of the remedies, homeopathy can heal and increase health.

Homeopathy in History:

Throughout most of the nineteenth century, scarlet fever was the leading cause of death among infectious childhood maladies, with a mortality of up to 30 percent in usual epidemics.

Between 1842 and 1852, 270 children with scarlet fever were treated homeopathically at the Protestant Half-Orphan Asylum in New York City with one death, a mortality of 0.37 percent.

Dr. Adolph Lippe reported that, in 1849, he treated in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, “over 150 cases of malignant scarlet fever with the 200th and higher potencies exclusively—mortality—none. The allopathists (ordinary doctors) lost over 90 percent and the survivors were crippled for life.” It is said scarlet fever started in New York City in 1830 and kept spreading into the 1850’s through various counties of adjoining states.

Source: Report on the epidemic diseases which prevailed in 1851, in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. Transactions of the American Medical Association 1852; 5: 312.

10/30/2025

Midwives too.
Crank up the old school tunes, windows down, air in your face and then without knowing how, you pull in the driveway…

10/29/2025

Your midwifery team works hard for you. Educating, researching, adjusting for your needs as best we can.

It’s easy on you to allow for payments to be made to help support your desire for midwifery care and hopefully resulting in a home birth…

But not paying on time affects not only your ongoing care, but also the care of our other families, and of course, your midwifery team.

Please take steps to communicate with your midwifery team about any concerns over your payments.

We want to work with you to help support you as best we can but we are no longer able to begin on-call time or attend your birth without payments maintained and agreed to.

Our heart for supporting families can only keep going when everyone works together. The loss of midwifery options hurts all of our communities.

10/24/2025

AJOG Expert Review: Placenta at single-cell resolution in early and late preeclampsia: insights and clinical implications - Proposed classification of Preeclampsia Types I and II https://ow.ly/jqFF50VMsI7

10/23/2025

Vaccine Refusal Forms from Doctors: What Parents Should Know

our doctor hands you a vaccine refusal form for your child and asks you to sign it. Many parents hesitate, wondering if signing will create legal problems or be used against them later.

The legitimate purpose of these forms is to clarify that the doctor is not responsible for the choices you make. When you sign a properly written form, you are doing exactly what medical freedom means—accepting responsibility for your own healthcare decisions.

The problem? Not all vaccine refusal forms are properly written. Some go far beyond documenting your decision and instead require you to make admissions that could be harmful.

So how can you tell the difference?

Understanding Vaccine Refusal Forms: What Parents Should Know

Vaccine refusal forms serve a legitimate purpose in the healthcare system. When a doctor asks a parent to sign such a form, the physician is documenting that the parent has been informed of the doctor's medical opinions regarding vaccines and is choosing to decline or delay certain immunizations. Essentially, the doctor is establishing that the parent, not the healthcare provider, bears responsibility for this decision.

This arrangement should not be problematic for parents who advocate for medical freedom. In fact, it aligns with the principle that parents—not doctors or government officials—hold the authority and responsibility to make healthcare decisions for their children.

The Core Issue: Where Forms Cross the Line

Parents who choose to delay or decline vaccines generally have no objection to signing a statement that acknowledges two things: first, that they accept responsibility for their decision, and second, that their doctor has communicated their professional opinions and recommendations. These are reasonable acknowledgments that simply document the nature of the conversation and the decision-making process.

The problem arises when vaccine refusal forms go far beyond this basic documentation. Some forms require parents to essentially make admissions of guilt, to concede that they are putting their children at risk, or to agree to statements that characterize their decision in extreme terms. The critical distinction is in the language used. When a form states, "I, the doctor, have informed you of these risks and benefits," that is typically acceptable. However, when a form requires parents to write, "I understand that..." or "I agree that..." followed by inflammatory statements, the form crosses an important line.

When Forms Cross the Line

Some healthcare providers use forms with language like this that goes far beyond reasonable documentation. For example, one form received by a family included the following statements:
"I understand that if my child is not vaccinated and consequently becomes infected, he or she could experience serious consequences, such as amputation, pneumonia, hospitalization, brain damage, paralysis, meningitis, seizures, deafness, and death. Many children left intentionally unvaccinated have suffered severe health consequences from their parents' decision not to vaccinate them."

"I understand that some vaccine-preventable diseases (e.g., measles, mumps, pertussis [whooping cough]) are infecting unvaccinated U.S. children, resulting in many hospitalizations and even deaths."

"I understand that my unvaccinated child could spread disease to another child who is too young to be vaccinated or whose medical condition (e.g., leukemia, other forms of cancer, immune system problems) prevents them from being vaccinated. This could result in long-term complications and even death for the other child."

This type of language does more than document informed consent and acceptance of responsibility. It makes parents assent to implications that they are deliberately and recklessly endangering their children and others. Such wording goes far beyond what is necessary for liability protection and instead appears designed to shame or intimidate parents into compliance.

What Families Can Do

Heritage Defense families who encounter problematic vaccine refusal forms have options. You receive access in your Members-Only portal to alternative vaccine refusal forms that provide clear documentation without inappropriate language. If a healthcare provider asks you to sign an objectionable form, you can print out and take one of our forms to your appointment instead. Many providers will not even notice that you have brought an alternative form. If they do, you can simply explain that it documents the same basic information without the problematic admissions.

Additionally, if a healthcare provider insists that you must use their own form, Heritage Defense members can consult directly with an attorney at any time. These attorneys provide step-by-step guidance to help parents understand their rights and navigate these situations with confidence. Note, however, we do not recommend that you inform your provider that you are calling your attorney as this can escalate matters unnecessarily.

Parents have both the right and the responsibility to make informed healthcare decisions for their children. Vaccine refusal forms can document this reality without requiring parents to make inappropriate admissions or accept characterizations of their decisions that go beyond reasonable informed consent.