12/31/2025
Here is our 2025 in review. It was our busiest year yet - but a hard year to say the least. Moonlight Midwife has been serving East Tennessee families for almost 6 years now! 🙌🏻 We post these statistics yearly for transparency to our clients and potential clients so they can make informed decisions about their care.
We had so many complicating factors this year. So much gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, a few incredibly long transition stages for some of our first time moms, and we had the most cesareans we’ve had so far. Our most common reason for transferring in labor was maternal exhaustion/pain relief for therapeutic rest.
We had one family risk out of care for fetal anomalies discovered at the anatomy scan halfway through the pregnancy. We’d like to honor this family who tragically lost mom to an extremely rare, unpreventable and sudden complication close to the time of delivery and devastatingly lost baby a couple weeks later after the delivery. We will forever remember Joelle and baby Samuel 🤍
This year had some bright notes as well. We were able to expand our practice and our travel radius, we have a second office available for our clients, and the midwives are getting some much needed time off-call each month. We averaged five births the last four months of the year and it feels much more manageable with a little bit of time off-call!
Some practice firsts:
*we had our first vaginal birth after two cesareans!
*we had an uncomplicated (over the phone) precipitous breech delivery!
*we had two babies born four minutes apart!
*we had our first Christmas Day baby
*we had our first NYE baby
*we had our first families that we’ve helped catch three of their babies!
We are beyond grateful for everyone who entrusted us for their care this year and we are already looking forward to all of our 2026 families! 💗
-The Moonlight Midwife Crew
