Blooming Birth Company

08/29/2025

…And another pair of waiting arms have been filled.

Homebirth may not be for everyone, but if there was ever someone who it was most definitely for, it was this mama.

She just needed the love and tender care from the two people she trusts more than all others. She just needed time, space, and patience to bring her baby Earthside in the way God had shown her from the beginning. She just needed us to believe in her vision with her. She just needed rest, not force. She just needed comfort and security, not pressure. She just needed reminding, wave after wave, who God says she is, and what He made her to do. She just needed us to rule out any concerns that arose and return her back to the grounded grit she embodied so resolutely so she could continue on.

And when she was just-simply-given what she just-simply-needed… a stunning little beauty was born by God’s divine grace and the sheer strength and determination of her mother, in their home, after 31 hours of wholly (and holy) surrendering to the power of childbirth.

Was it long? Yeah.
Was it absolutely worth it? Yeah… absolutely incredibly worth it.

You are an utter force of fortitude and conviction, mama. What an absolute honor to have witnessed it all. 🌷

08/22/2025

🌈 Rainbow Baby Awareness 🌈

A rainbow baby is a little one born after the storm of loss—whether miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss. Just like a rainbow, they don’t erase the storm, but they bring light, hope, and healing after the darkest of days.

Today, we honor all the babies who are no longer in our arms but forever in our hearts, and we celebrate the rainbow babies who remind us of God’s promises and new beginnings. 💕

To all the parents waiting, grieving, and hoping—your journey matters, your babies matter, and you are not alone. ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷

08/17/2025

UPDATE✨

A huge thank you to ALL of you that rallied to this mamas aid with offers of milk, other tips to try, and by sharing this post! We were able to round up a full cooler to deliver to these babies tomorrow. 🥹💗 I’m truly so touched and blessed by the amount of support that was poured out on behalf of a fellow mother in her time of need.

THANK YOU!

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Hello BBC community! This is an urgent call for mama’s to help another mama:

A local mama has reached out to me needing breastmilk for her 10-month-old twins. Her teen daughter is currently hospitalized in very serious condition and her twins are being cared for by her mother back home. If any of you in MS/Mem area have any breastmilk you are able and willing to donate to help us take this need off this dear mama’s heavy load, please comment below or DM.

Thank you so greatly in advance for your generosity! 🌷

Alicia

08/14/2025

A friend and I were discussing birth recently, and she had some questions about some of the big differences between HOSPITAL birth and HOME birth. At the end of that question, she asked me something that believe it or not, no one has ever asked me.

“What makes a person choose Home Birth?”

The obvious reality is that there are a thousand possible different answers to that question, but I gave her two or three of the most common reasons I see people seeking alternative care.

For funsies though, I asked ChatGPT this morning that very same question. “What makes a person choose home birth?” I was actually very impressed by how accurate this information was!

People choose home birth for a mix of emotional, philosophical, and practical reasons, and the motivation often depends on their personal values, prior birth experiences, and health circumstances. Common reasons include:

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1. Comfort & Familiarity
• Being in their own space often helps people feel more relaxed, safe, and in control.
• Familiar surroundings can lower stress hormones, which can help labor progress more smoothly.

2. Desire for a Natural, Low-Intervention Birth
• Many people want to avoid routine hospital interventions like continuous fetal monitoring, unnecessary inductions, or epidurals unless truly needed.
• Home birth supports physiological birth with fewer interruptions.

3. Personalized, Continuous Care
• Midwives typically provide one-on-one support throughout labor and postpartum, often with longer prenatal visits.
• Care is tailored to the individual’s values, preferences, and cultural practices.

4. Freedom & Autonomy
• At home, birthing people can eat, drink, move, and choose positions freely.
• Decisions are made collaboratively, and consent is emphasized. (👈🏻 yes Chat, yes! )

5. Family-Centered Experience
• Partners, children, and other chosen support people can be present without hospital restrictions.
• The environment can be quiet, intimate, and filled with personal touches like music, candles, or birth pools.

6. Past Negative or Traumatic Hospital Experiences
• Some choose home birth after feeling unheard, rushed, or pressured in a previous hospital birth.
• Home birth can feel like reclaiming their birth experience.

7. Evidence & Belief in Safety for Low-Risk Pregnancies
• Research shows that for healthy, low-risk pregnancies attended by skilled midwives, planned home birth can be as safe as hospital birth for the birthing person, with fewer interventions and a higher chance of spontaneous vaginal birth.

8. Postpartum Convenience & Support
• No need to travel during labor or after delivery.
• Midwives typically return for home visits in 24 hours or in the days and weeks after birth.

ALL OF THE ABOVE!! 👏🏼👏🏼

Are any of these the reasons you chose home birth?

Let us hear in the COMMENTS below! 👇🏻

08/06/2025

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07/16/2025

When is enough, enough?

Nothing, I quite literally mean nothing, makes me feel more rage than when a mother is trying to make informed, educated decisions for the health of her baby and is left feeling belittled, disregarded, reckless, and unfit.😡

She was never once combative. She let them run every test, received every poke, went in for multiple trips to the hospital to “monitor” this or that with the full understanding they were trying to find a problem, but conceded so that in the end there would be even more proof that she and her baby were perfectly healthy.

She submitted and subjected to all of that in the hopes that at the end of her pregnancy, her ONE request would be honored; to not be induced before her body and baby were ready. Even in that, she would acknowledge that if it ever became “unsafe” or “high risk” she would gladly do what needed to be done.

In the end(which in this case was 38 weeks) None of it mattered. The evidence was ignored. She was told repeatedly that her baby would die as a result of her wanting to “prove a point”.

Can you imagine the anguish and turmoil that caused her? To believe in something so strongly that you were designed to do, only to be told it would cost you your baby’s life to get it?!!

I hope those of you reading this can feel your maternal heart breaking and raging for her as ours did. That is UNACCEPTABLE care.

And yet, it’s a conversation that is happening day in and day out. Some have just figured out a better way of disguising it.

“Your baby is so big already”

“I might not be on call when you go into labor”

“Aren’t you just ready to get this baby here”?

“Blood pressure will only go up from here and your’s is kind of creeping up.”

“It’s not your first baby, an induction will be so easy”

STOP 🛑

Please do not misunderstand the fact that I feel so deeply compassionate for ALL of us that have heard those things and felt we had to make a decision that we didn’t want to make. I sat there and heard it all too and didn’t have the knowledge or support at the time to say, ENOUGH.

But SHE did.

She trusted fully and wholly to the only true authority there is. I know she would tell you it was the hardest thing she’s ever been through.

Then she would also say, Worth it. 🙏🌷

📷Pictures shared with permission