The Midwife Method

09/06/2024

We are SO excited to invite you to a film screening of the new documentary 'A Midwife Solution' followed by a community dialogue and Q&A panel with a variety of local experts and community members.

This event will take place on September 8th from 12-2 pm at Asheville Brewing Company.

This hard hitting short documentary tells the story of the underground Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) in North Carolina and explores the reasons why legislation to license and integrate CPMs is such a critical step toward improving health outcomes in our state.

The film is absolutely beautiful and we are so excited to show it to you, but most importantly, we are looking forward to the chance to gather as many members of the birth community possible together, to have a meaningful discussion about access to community birth choices and smooth, safe and respectful transports to hospitals, when the need arises.

We can't state enough how valuable it will be to have your presence at this event 🙂

So please, bring your family and friends to enjoy an afternoon together learning, connecting and growing towards expanding birth choices for all.

Doulas, midwives, OBGYNS, nurses, lactation consultants, chiropractors, public health officials, pelvic floor therapists, families and consumers of midwifery care - let us all come together to help address the perinatal health crisis that North Carolina is facing.

Tickets are $15, you can purchase them here. This vintage movie theater serves pizza and beer so feel free to come a little early to mingle and order food.

Ticket proceeds from the screening will benefit the legislative work being done to license and integrate CPMs in North Carolina!

If you can not be present at the event and want to support the legislative efforts for CPMs in NC, please consider making a donation.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Taylor Broussard, Justine Clegg, and Avril Bowens

NCforCPMS

07/05/2024

Today, I am moved to tears of gratitude, and in celebration of the courage and fierceness of all the women who have come before me to fight for any and all aspects of women's and all people's rights and equality in this and every other country around the world.

I acknowledge that this fight has not only been one of triumph but one of loss. One that took from the very people who fought in tangible and intangible ways. On their lives and livelihoods, on their emotions and body, on their families. I also acknowledge all the victims that this legacy has left behind. The people who suffered in the hands of change.

Birth was taken from women and handed to the self proclaimed male obstetrician, who has historically, made countless mistakes that has caused women and baby's to suffer and die in their care.

Although the profession (OBGYN's) has made a comeback, so far as female providers go, they are still educated in a masculine profession AND through the lens of DISEASE rather than through the actuality of birth being a normal physiological process. OBGYN's are surgeons, so it is only normal that their profession seeks to assist through surgical and medicalized means. However, most birthing people, surrounded by a team of experts in enhancing physiology AND in an environment carefully designed to do the same, need the assistance of surgery, to birth a baby.

What is needed, is a team of providers (midwives) and a healthcare system that works to support and enhance that inherent physiology to express at it's highest potential. That means supporting the totality of the birthing person or woman. The minds, the hearts, the emotional and physical body and the social structures we all live in.

We have a LOT of work to do in this regard. In my lifetime, I seek to see a MIDWIFE LED maternity health care system where every single person has access to the Midwife Model of Care AND to collaborative care with our surgical colleagues, when the need arises. In this way, we will truly provide the best quality of care and reach the best outcomes possible for women and baby's while reducing healthcare costs for those paying for services. and a more humanized and balanced birth for the next generation.

This is the spoke of the wheel that I have dedicated my life's work towards. A fight worth fighting and one that still has so far to go and I honor all those who speak and fight for all the other important battles that need to be fought on our way towards a more equitable world.🙏❤

10/08/2022

09/22/2022

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You don’t need to push your baby out⚠️

Read that again.

💡Your uterus will do the work of pushing💡

All you need to do is relax and allow it to happen.

☑️Just like you don’t need to think about how to walk or sneeze or p*e, you don’t need to think about pushing during labor.

☑️The muscles of your uterus and the hormones of labor have a perfect plan for how to get your baby down and out through your pelvis.

⛔️Holding your knees back and holding your breath while using all your might to push, actually creates tension in your body and works against you. Controlled or coached pushing may result in longer pushing and more damage to your pelvic floor.

☑️You don’t need your abs, your arms or your quads to push your baby out.

💡Your uterus holds all the power you need💡

💫Trust your uterus💫

Breathe ➡️ Relax ➡️ Open. That’s the process.

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09/17/2022

I've been working on this baby and 5 other programs for the last year and a half...while doing all the other things in my life and healing from past experiences and my big accident.

I'm proud of what I created and am excited to finally be birthing my creations into the world!

Pregnant and wanting to learn about how nutrition can support a healthy pregnancy, prevent complications and help grow a healthy baby?

Optimal Pregnancy Nutrition is on sale now until midnight!

If you feel called to share with your family and friends, please do!!

It's such vital information that is so often neglected in pregnancy care. The body is made beautiful and incredible and all it needs to operate in smooth working order is attention to nutrition AND the mind and spirit.

Have a beautiful day and feel free to check it out!

Learn to nourish yourself and your baby with optimal nutrition from whole real foods to help prevent pregnancy complications and grow a healthy baby!

09/09/2022

🦚3 years since the day I took flight. Literally and metaphysically! I will always remember the oddly frozen in time Seconds that it took my body to fly 44 feet off my motorcycle before coming to a rather abrupt landing in the ditch.

🐛There is life before that accident and there is life afterward and they seem for me, to be two distinct lives...forever set apart from one another. Like a glitch where an event provided an emmense oppotunity to switch realities or the timeline or current trajectory of life.

🍀September 9th, 2019 will forever be a turning point. A tipping point. A Topsy turvey, turn your world upside down kind of a point 👉 which could have gone either way....unraveling me until I ceased to exist or weaving me into the person I was trying to so desperately become.

🦋 It turned out to be the gift of so many wonders I couldn't even begin to touch on this post. Suffice it to say, great pain and tragedy may provide the most amazing opportunities IF you are willing to develop the capability of shifting into new possibilities and taking the leap.

08/03/2022

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YES!! You can stay active spring pregnancy and YES, you may get tackled by your toddler! And that's OK too!!

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I am officially 37 weeks as of today 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 finding motivation to stay fit + keep up with the things I love has been a real struggle 💯 ☝🏾however staying CONSISTENT with my lifestyle has really given me all the inspiration + strength I need to push through to the finish line. I’m almost there 💪🏾☝🏾💯

07/26/2022

There is a great REMEMBERING in process in our culture and in the course of humanity.

We are warriors of deep surrender
We are warriors of remembering
We are warriors of letting go
We are warriors of spirit and body and soul and babies and birthing.

And on this journey through pregnancy, you will uncover the deepest truths and the deepest strengths within yourself.

Digging in to your vulnerabilities, your perceived weaknesses, you will uncover a spring of unfathomable LOVE.

You will uncover the essence of what it is to truly LIVE!
What it is to truly BE gloriously PREGNANT!
What it is to truly BIRTH with PRESENCE!

07/15/2022

Informed WHAT? Oh yeah...informed CONSENT.

Information + consent

Here's the information, don't ask questions, sign here to consent to x, y, z. Let's just get this done so we can move on.

Questions? Don't really have time so I'll use language that is above your fluency or I'll tap into my coercive language toolkit and make you feel silly and irresponsible for even asking or I'll use my body language to communicate my annoyance in having to practice by my own profession's stated patient rights.

It's like a slap in the face to what birthing folks are asking for and to the profession's own meaning and intention of informed consent which is as follows;

1) to receive information about the risks, benefits, options, and costs of treatment plan including doing nothing.
2) your right to make decisions about your healthcare and have those decisions respected.

Now let's explore informed choice...information + choice. When we use the word choice, we invite the client / patient into participating in their own care. We invite a conversation about what the information is, what the choices are and how to incorporate patient preferences into a co-created care plan.

Let's move towards....INFORMED CHOICE!!

Come learn with us :)