Eden Midwifery

01/29/2026

The sweetest see you later picture from this beautiful family. What a joy they have been to serve. God Bless you! Midwife Ivy

01/29/2026

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01/26/2026

New Year. Same goals. To love God and love people and to provide quality nurturing care for mommas and their families.

01/26/2026

Welcome baby Daphne Ann 8lbs 2.2 oz! You sure kept your momma guessing on when you would arrive and you kept the Eden team guessing on how you would arrive. In the end you arrived in a rush to be the last baby of 2025! Your momma is one of the strongest we have ever met. You join a really amazing family that loves you so much. Grow big and do great things! We loved serving this family. Peep the local milk supply shirt! 😂

01/26/2026

Welcome sweet Oakley Ruth 6lbs. 12ozs 20 1/4 long. This exquisite baby made a very quick entrance into this world! Only 45 min after midwife Ivy arrived and just a few minutes after midwives Rebekah and Jessica arrived. We were blown away by mom's mental focus and by the lovely birth she had. Baby O joins such a precious family with two big brothers who love her so much. Grow big and do great things little one. Thank you for letting us serve your family.
Fun fact. Midwife Ivy used to attend births with baby Oakley's Great Grandmother back in the day! She was a well known midwife on the St Joe River in St Maries, Idaho💜

01/25/2026

Italian scientists designed smart progesterone delivery targeting cervix with minimal side effects. Progesterone helps prevent preterm birth for some, but systemic dosing can cause fatigue and mood effects. Italian researchers designed targeted progesterone delivery that concentrates therapy where it matters—the cervix—while minimizing whole-body exposure.

The technology uses a bioadhesive formulation that stays localized, slowly releasing progesterone at cervical tissue. Picture a time-release patch, but designed for mucosal tissue with controlled absorption. The result: high local effect with lower bloodstream levels.

Impact: better tolerance, higher adherence, and potentially better outcomes for patients who can’t tolerate standard progesterone regimens. It’s a “right place, right dose” strategy that aligns with modern precision medicine.

If this scales, preterm birth prevention becomes less blunt-force and more surgical—pharmacology that behaves like a targeted tool.

Source: University of Milan, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2025

01/24/2026

The mental load of planning a VBAC is so much, women of strength. You are not alone. Find solidarity and inspiring VBAC stories on The VBAC Link Podcast, on Apple and Spotify!


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01/16/2026

After supporting births for 10+ years, there’s one pregnancy pattern I keep seeing. 👇🏼

During pregnancy, your blood volume can more than double! To accommodate this, your liver uses the protein you eat to create osmotic pressure (a fancy way of saying it keeps the fluids in your vessels).

Quality salt consumption also creates osmotic pressure! If you have a healthy heart/kidneys, salt restriction reduces the pull that keeps fluids in the vessels, causing the blood volume to decrease. The body doesn’t understand you just need more salt, it sees that the blood volume is lowering, assumes you’re hemorrhaging, and begins trying to preserve the internal organs.

The kidneys produce renin, an enzyme that causes the blood vessels to restrict, this constriction causes the blood pressure to rise.

"Treating" this rise with salt/weight restriction = more of a blood volume drop = more production of renin = more constriction of blood vessels = an even higher blood pressure. 😬

During all of this, the kidneys are ALSO trying to increase the blood volume by reabsorbing as much water as possible.

The kidneys keep reabsorbing water at one end, while the water is leaking out of the capillaries at the other end, and the woman sees rapid swelling/weight gain from water retention. Most providers still try to treat the symptoms alone instead of addressing the underlying reason, which is obviously unsuccessful, and the complications start adding up.

Several midwifery models have patients follow a high-protein diet, salting to taste… especially in the last months before delivery. In return, they see less cases. For example, The Farm Midwifery center had only 11 cases of pre-eclampsia out of 2,844 births. That's 0.4%! 🙌🏼

In contrast, the national average is 1 in 25 pregnancies. The Brewer Diet addresses these underlying nutritional causes, and is the first thing I recommend looking into for doula clients with a history of pre-e.

Change your perception a bit?? 🫶🏼

01/11/2026

01/01/2026

Thankful for these women here who helped us ring in the New Year! Sometimes we need an extra level of support from our local Hospital. We are always thankful for them and to our patients who trust our judgment when needing to access higher care.