Elder Midwife History Gathering Project

11/10/2025

✨🌲 Something is stirring under the cedar boughs… 🌲✨
These past few days I’ve been busy — not just doing, but BECOMING.
I learned new tech (yes, I survived the Great Gumroad Glitch-Storm of ’25), I polished stories that feel like they came straight through my bones, and I remembered something important:
We don’t wait for permission to shine.
We don’t wait for perfect timing.
We tell our stories anyway.
So today, I’m raising my cedar-cup of warm courage and saying it plainly:
📚 I am building a legacy of wisdom, wonder, and midwife-heart storytelling.
🕯️ I am gathering elder voices before they fade.
🐭🌿 I am lighting a hearth for those who care about birth, nature, values, and wild magic.
And I’m inviting my kindred spirits — near and far — to come with me.
This adventure is just beginning.
If you’d like to walk with me through the forest paths of Twitchabit Landing, where mice midwife miracles and cedars whisper truth… or to stand with me as I honor the elder midwives who carried wisdom long before algorithms existed…
🌟 Come peek at my Substack. https://substack.com/
🌿 Wander the Cedarlings. https://gracefulelder.gumroad.com/l/frwjws
🕊️ Join the story.
Legacy isn’t something we leave someday.
Legacy is something we live — one brave, luminous step at a time.
Onward we go.
With joy.
With roots.
With fire in the belly and cedar sap on our sleeves.

Available on Gumroad

10/29/2025

Elder Midwives: I ask you again- - please send me your wild and crazy birth experiences, that demonstrate the HUGE diversity called 'normal birth'! These Herstories MUST be preserved! Probably will be published, so please obtain permissions needed, to do so! Thank you once again!

10/19/2025

“Mark my words—before long, midwifery schools will list the Twitchabit Cedarling series as required reading. The rainforest’s tiny teachers are already whispering their lessons to those who listen.”

10/08/2025

Elder Midwives: I would love to include your birth stories, poetry, artwork, recipes, tricks of the trade in the Elder Midwives' Legacy project. I am ESPECIALLY interested in birth stories that illustrate the VAST range of 'normal' that physiologically undisturbed birth encompasses! Let's talk! 719 354 0326 (Text is best!) Thank you so much. Let's get our voices out there!

10/03/2025

09/27/2025

Please share in your birthy world!

Baby is Their Own Unique Self

09/17/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/eldermidwiveslegacyof/p/falling-under-the-obstetric-spell?r=26lol6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

FOR MY PAYING SUBSCRIBERS! Don't miss the juiciness!

Once upon a time—long before steel beds and beeping monitors—birth belonged to women. We gathered in kitchens, in fields, in warm corners of humble homes.

09/13/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/eldermidwiveslegacyof/p/the-midwifes-why?r=26lol6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Midwife’s WHY

08/30/2025

As a midwife- what inspires you? I'm looking for lovely stories or anecdotes to include in the book that will make other midwives' heart sing! GO! xoxo

08/28/2025

Oh! And the book............is ripping right along! I can hardly contain myself!

08/28/2025

Sisters all- Long time since my last Substack posting! I've been immersed in the world of tech! O.M.Gosh! A true vertical learning curve for this kinesthetic writer of snail mailed thank you notes old school Chica! So, you might notice a bit more 'professional' look and format to the Substacks. And I'm on a schedule now- an almost undoable feat, when your 96-year-old father needs around the clock care.
Many 3 a.m. awakenings to get this done. And no- I'm not complaining! I'm truly delighted. (Okay- so I'm taking naps again now!! Grin!) THIS is my work. It always has been. Life got in the way for a time. You know.......
So, let me know what you think! Please help spread the word about this work. Blessings to you as we soon round the sun into Autumn! My huge gratitude for your support and care! Means everything to me!

08/28/2025

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Compassion Fatigue & True Self-Care for Midwives