Agape Birth Services LLC

04/28/2026

This video is basically a masterclass in 4 ways you can surrender to birth intensity during active labor and beyond!

The way she’s relaxing and leaning into her partners embrace, it helps to boost oxytocin and increase feelings of safety, which is very important for labor progression.

She has a labor come in her hand when she squeezes it. It activates pressure points in her hand, which helps to confuse the brain and pain signals so that it’s not focusing only on the intensity of labor, helps release, natural endorphins through those pressure points!

The low, guttural moaning sounds helps her jaw relax, and body to relax. The vibration from the sounds is going to help stimulate her vagus nerve which helps calm the entire nervous system, and the moaning sounds like will relax and open up the whole pelvic region. (Tight jaw and staying tense = tight pelvic region and we don’t want that. We want open, soft, relaxed)

Way to go mama!

04/27/2026

I had a moment today that made me realize just how strange my life can be. I often feel as though I have two very separate lives and the two lives don’t have a shared bridge back and forth. I somehow find the ability, or try too, leave my experiences of work at the door. My heart isn’t always willing to comply to such requests. How does one “leave work at work”?

Being present during a miscarriage and holding a 7wk babe in my hand. To realizing how humbling it is when a woman shares her sexual abuse story with you. To then walk back to my home and make a meal for my family I sometimes feel caught in this great place of “in-between”. One simply doesn’t walk away from those experiences unchanged. These experiences often break me.

Being invited into a women’s hurt, love, loss is humbling and encompassing. Somedays I do better than others at leaving work at work. Somedays I do better at being present in the mundane of life. It’s not lost on me. I carry those stories and those experiences, those secrets with me. I am grateful to have been called to such a place as midwifery.

04/22/2026

What an amazing job, mama. Many women end up giving birth standing up because gravity helps tremendously! This dad also did a great job catching baby. He was so calm and collected!

Did you give birth to your baby standing up or in a different position? Some women also say it was less painful because of the angle and less intense stretching/pulling.

04/22/2026

Did you enjoy preparing for home birth or did you find it overwhelming?

04/15/2026

My website has been down since January! I am happy to report it is back up! Thank you all who had reached out expressing concern.

Explore your birthing options your way at Agape Birth Services with an experienced certified midwife. At Agape, you will be treated with care and compassion and will receive the top midwifery services in Northeast Indiana

04/15/2026

We need to change the conversation around safe sleep with your newborn.

04/14/2026

Say it louder for those in the back! There is a difference between ROUTINE cervical exams and cervical exams used to assess a possible dysfunctional labor. Women in care with Agape never receive a routine cervical exam unless they ask for one. I will ask for a cervical exam if I feel it would give us valid information that would impact next steps in the labor process.

There has been a shift to “demonize” all cervical exams. Truth is some women want them. They like knowing that information. Truth is a cervical exam is a helpful tool in the midwife’s bag when needed. -

04/13/2026

04/08/2026

Little man joins us earth side for this repeat Agape family. He came at 40.5wks and weighed 7 # 9oz.