Des Moines Midwife Collective

12/14/2025

Two births in under 12 hours 💕 In Iowa it’s not storks bringing babies it’s the cold and snow!! ❄️ Let’s hear it for VBAC and first time mamas rocking birth. A very merry midwife indeed! ⭐️ 🎄 🤶 ⛄️

10/25/2025

Full Lotus Birth with DMC ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Check out the process below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

10/10/2025

Busy with babies and loving every minute 💕

09/07/2025

Hello Amazing Community 🌼 One of our sweet moms is struggling with supply and looking for breastmilk donations. If you have extra milk 🥛 and are willing to donate, drop a comment below and she will privately message you OR message us privately and we will put you in touch.

Thank you for considering 🩷🩷🩷

09/01/2025

Happy Labor Day 🎉🥳🎊

Did you know what eating 🍽️ dates can help with labor? 🩷 A 2024 meta analysis highlighted that eating 4-6 dates daily beginning around week 36-37 weeks of pregnancy:

⭐️ Reduces the total duration of labor

⭐️ Decreases the need for Induction of Labor

⭐️ Accelerates spontaneous delivery

⭐️ Boosts milk supply postpartum

⭐️ Reduces postpartum hemorrhage

⭐️ Increases Maternal hemoglobin levels

What an amazing way our bodies respond to the food we eat 😍

08/26/2025

Happy Tuesday!

We just ❤️ the relationships and connections we make in this beautiful work we do 🌼

07/29/2025

Looking for a practice that boasts intimacy, experience, and additional services? Look no further! 🎉 Exciting changes are coming to DMC in Fall 2025 to allow for even more individualized and comprehensive care 🎉

What does this mean?

✳️ It means that you will see one midwife throughout your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey allowing for strong connections and elevated relationship as you navigate this journey 💕

✳️ To ensure we provide the best care possible, we are limiting our care to just three birth clients each month 🌼

Who will provide care?

✳️ Care will be provided by Caitlin Hainley who has been practicing in the field of maternal health for almost 20 years! Caitlin has been an IBCLC for 15 years and a midwife since 2016 🔥

✳️ Caitlin has practiced homebith exclusively since 2021 with experience in VBAC, twin and breech vaginal birth. 🙌

What Additional Services are Offered?

✳️ In addition to providing prenatal, birth and postpartum services, our homebirth package provides comprehensive newborn health examinations, 👩‍⚕️ wellness checks, and newborn screening services, including hearing screens, allowing you to focus your first month postpartum on recovering and nourishing yourself and your baby👩‍🍼without the need for additional outside appointments for these services.

✳️ Our birth package also provides additional comprehensive lactation care visits, as needed, with our provider level IBCLC to help you meet your feeding goals 🩷

We have limited space available this spring
*️⃣ One birth client opening in January.
*️⃣ One birth client opening in February
*️⃣ Two birth client openings in March

Call (515) 349-0750 for a free consultation

❤️Your Care, Your Way, with Your Midwife❤️

07/17/2025

When TV 13 randomly stops a community birth midwife and asks her what she thinks the City of Des Moines should do with the old City Hall or Armory building…Can you guess her answer? Scroll to 2:28 in the video to see if you’re right!

City of Des Moines taps developers for future of historic Argonne Armory

07/16/2025

It was an absolute honor ✨ to speak on Pacific Legal Foundation’s birth freedom panel in Indianapolis 💕 I met so many advocates for Midwives and Birth Centers, heard heartbreaking 💔stories from Georgia and Alabama, and met some true birth freedom fighters 💪 in those States.

My biggest takeaway is that though Iowa has so far to go, we have also come SO FAR 🙌 We truly do have a bright, birth, future ahead of us in this State 🌸 Let’s keep pushing for change for ourselves and for our children - may they find the path to birth choice and birth freedom well trod and easy to walk 👟

07/10/2025

We are looking to grow our Birth Assistant team! If you love birth work, have wide availability for the on-call life, and are looking to work with an amazing team, we're interested in meeting you. To submit your resume or find out more, please reach out to us at info@midwifedesmoines.com 🩷 We look forward to hearing from you!

07/08/2025

The other side of midwifery…

One side is catching babies in the wee hours ⏳- in dimness lit by twinkling lights ✨ with babes slipping silently into water 🛁 and those first sweet cries 🥰 as their mamas bring them earthside, skin-to-skin and they take their first breath 🎉 It’s holding space for magic to happen and for dreams come true 🦋

The other side, the one that not many people see, is telling your kids at 4:45pm, in full and shining sun,☀️that it’s your bedtime 🤣

Sweet dreams to all those amazing and powerful moms AND midwives out in the world 💕

07/07/2025

We just 💗 visits from old friends. Seeing our DMC babies grow🌷is so much fun.