01/10/2026
Breech babies have been finding their way to me this past year. I've helped 13 turn; 2 in the past week.
In the quiet sanctuary of my clinic room, I welcomed two moms into my safe space, a room of a midwife with great faith in her role helping babies. They handed over their great fear and sorrow of planned cesareans and allowed me to do my work, connecting with their body, the spirit realm and the baby.
Both moms were over 37 weeks pregnant.
Tensions were resolved. Words that spoke to the soul were discovered through intuition and cut right to what they needed to hear. Babies were talked to in the way the spirit of that baby needed to receive words. Ligaments were released, diaphragms opened, uterus’ aligned.
In this level of connection, a midwife feels rhythm needed and sends them through the mother’s body, rocking the spine, the hips, the uterus.
She holds her hand lightly but firmly on the body, then the baby, energetically restoring balance. Mother sighs, everything relaxes, babies move.
It could be magic, or it could be midwifery.
deeply believing that function can be restored, and is meant to be restored, is the magic
---note for the curious... I don't do ECV like the hospital. Babies mostly move by their action. I do use ultrasound & NST. It's a 2hr session. It's all my own ways. Not all babies move.----
THIS YEAR I VOW TO SHARE MORE ABOUT MIDWIFING. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL ART.
I TRIED TO RUN AWAY FROM MIDWIFERY LAST YEAR. SOMETIMES IT ASKS A LOT. IN MY SABBATICAL TIME, I FOUND I NEED IT’S BEAUTY, AND THE WORLD NEEDS ME MIDWIFING.
THEREFORE, I HAVE RENAMED THIS INSTAGRAM, FOR THIS YEAR AT LEAST, FROM MY WILD HERB WOMEN’S PRACTICE TO ME, CRYSTAL BAILEY THE MIDWIFE, TO HONOR MY CORE ESSENCE AS A MIDWIFE.
MIDWIFING DESCRIBES ALL MY CARE- DEPTH, CONNECTION, ENERGETIC WORK, BODYWORK, HEALTH, SPIRIT, NATURE. I WEAVE THIS INTO BIRTH, FERTILITY, WOMEN’S HEALTH, FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE. YEP, I GIVE IN. I AM A MIDWIFE AND IT INCLUDES ALL OF THIS.
CRYSTAL BAILEY, MIDWIFE
it’s midwifing, y’all