Kristy Wilson Midwife

12/03/2025

11/23/2025

My heart and thoughts go out to the midwives, staff and families impacted by this closure. We need all types of midwives to serve a diverse community in PA.

11/17/2025

Pregnancy may be “natural” but it is far from easy. A huge soapbox of mine is when pregnancy is downplayed, nutrition and intake minimized so that mom doesn’t gain weight, and labs for the purpose of introducing good supplements dismissed during pregnancy. If early first trimester labs indicate deficiencies, eating “well” is often not enough.
Pregnancy isn’t just “like a marathon”… it is like running a marathon every day for months and with sustained high output of energy and nutrients, it requires focus, good nutrition, and targeted supplementation.

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Based on a Duke University study published in Science Advances in 2019, growing a baby is energetically comparable to or more demanding than running a marathon every day for 9 months. The study found that pregnancy pushes the human body to its metabolic limits over a long duration, in a way that is similar to elite endurance events but sustained for much longer.

Energy costs during pregnancy:

Pregnancy is an extreme feat of endurance because the body works constantly to grow a new human, even at rest.

📑Total calories: Pregnancy requires an additional 50,000 dietary calories over nine months. The mother’s body provides 96% of this energy.

📑Cardiovascular demand: To support the growing baby, a woman’s blood volume can increase by 30 to 50 percent, and her heart rate increases by 10 to 15 beats per minute.

📑Metabolic demands: The body’s resting energy use can rise by up to 30%, meaning it works much harder even when stationary.

While a marathon is a discrete event, pregnancy is a continuous process of biological transformation. The comparison highlights the total metabolic output over the long term. A woman’s heart, lungs, and metabolism work overtime every day for nine months, making pregnancy one of the most intense and sustained physical challenges a human body can undergo.

SOURCE: https://www.therunningweek.com/post/growing-a-baby-takes-more-energy-than-running-marathons-for-9-months-straight

11/01/2025

Fall break! We had TWO wild births this week - to be written about when I have processed them more. But now, our next homebirth client is due at the end of November, and we have a busy season coming up for us December through April. We greatly appreciate some time off call as we will each take some time to recollect mentally and physically rejuvenate ourselves by doing a few of the things we love. If you are a client, we always have someone on the emergency extension for true emergencies. Our text and email may be abandoned for a while on unpredictable days as we take day trips or just enjoy family time.

10/22/2025

10/22/2025

The Umbilical Cord: God’s Lifeline of Design

This is the cross-section of an umbilical cord. You’re not just seeing tissue. You’re staring at one of the most astonishing works of divine engineering.

Inside this perfect design are two arteries and one vein, wrapped in a protective cushion called Wharton’s jelly. This jelly keeps the vessels from twisting or collapsing, ensuring that the baby’s lifeline is never cut off.

Through those vessels flow oxygen, nutrients, and antibodies from the mother, while waste and carbon dioxide are carried away. It’s a two-way system that operates with flawless timing, connecting two bodies in perfect harmony.

While the baby’s lungs aren’t yet breathing and its stomach isn’t yet digesting, this cord does it all. It feeds, cleans, and sustains life. And when the child enters the world, it seals off naturally. No design flaw. No mistakes. Just precision.

No random process could ever invent such a system that links two human lives, sustains one through the other, and then detaches right on schedule.

What you’re seeing here is not evolution. It is the craftsmanship of the Creator.

10/07/2025

Breastfeeding doesn’t just make milk.. it keeps the hormone prolactin high, which rewires her brain to be more alert, sensitive, and tuned in to the baby.

At the same time, hormones like estrogen and progesterone stay low, which affects her mood, energy, sleep, and even intimacy.

So if she’s more tired, more emotional, or more focused on the baby than anything else.. it’s not “just in her head.”

It’s biology.

Breastfeeding keeps her body and mind in a postpartum state for as long as she nurses. She’s not back to “normal” yet. She’s doing life-sustaining, body-altering, and emotionally demanding work every single day.

Thank you for the patience, understanding, and effort in taking care of her. 🤍

10/02/2025

He’s here! I had the honor and privilege of catching a second grandchild. Naomi and I assisted Lauryn & Harrison as they welcomed sweet Remus on Monday, September 29th. He weighed just 9 lbs 10 oz and wanted Grandma & Auntie Midwife to help him out with his nuchal hands and a shoulder cord a bit in the way.

Midwifery can be an all-consuming calling, as it should be. The emphasis on women’s rights and feminism has robbed women of the gentleness, softness and need for support and sympathy that we inherently have and should show each other. For most of us who are called to midwifery we are first and foremost mothers simply wanting to help others to also become and experience the fullness of mothering. The feminist and woman-powered twist on midwifery is a delusion. Through our weakness we are used to bring life into this world. In our hardest moments of labor, women deserve a midwife to be there to remind her that she has the strength and courage to selflessly welcome her baby.

I have no greater honor in this life than to have developed a relationship with my children that they call me when they need me, trust me to be there in their times of needs and welcome me to be part of their adult lives and families.

We are thankful for this beautiful child.
Remus Michael Kirk Healy, we love you.