Anthus Midwifery Services

02/27/2026

Run. Far away.

It doesn’t matter if you’re 12 weeks or 41 weeks pregnant. Please know that you always, at any point in care, have the right to fire your provider. Especially if they talk to you like this.

02/21/2026

Raise your hand 🙋🏽‍♀️if you’ve heard this ridiculous statement. 🙄

Here’s your list of 🏆trophies🏆 (not exhaustive):

•Easier walking, swaying, squatting, stairs, or birth tub use
•Ability to follow your body’s natural urge to push
•More intuitive positioning during labor
•Natural labor supports timely hormonal releases that facilitate better coping and bonding
•Lower rates of routine interventions
•Less likely to have the dreaded intervention “cascade”
•Hands-on comfort measures (massage, counterpressure, rebozo, etc.)

🏆And a few bonus trophies for homebirth:

•When labor starts, you stay right where you are 🙌🏼
•Not separated from your other kids
•No epidural-related soreness or catheter
•Often feeling up and moving sooner
•Continuous 1:1 support from your midwife
•Comfort of your own home (bed, shower, snacks, lighting, music)
•No hospital interruptions, overhead pages, or shift changes
•Full control over your environment
•Freedom to move without IV poles or continuous monitor cords
•No routine separation from baby
•Recovery in your own bed with your family
•Familiar setting that supports natural oxytocin release
•Unlimited access to shower or birth tub
•No one is waking you up to ask how many times baby has peed, pooped, nursed, etc.

What else would you add to the list?
What was your biggest 🏆trophy🏆 item?

02/21/2026

There’s something sacred about this part of midwifery. 🤍
When a mama is carrying twins, one of the most powerful tools we use isn’t a machine…it’s our hands.
Through gentle, skilled palpation (Leopold’s maneuvers), midwives can feel:
✨ Which baby is closest to the pelvis
✨ Which little back is on the left or right
✨ Where tiny heads and bottoms are resting
✨ How the babies are nestled together
With experience, our hands learn the language of the womb. We can often tell if Baby A is head down, if Baby B is breech, or if they’re both curled up cheek-to-cheek like best friends already.
It’s not magic.
It’s anatomy.
It’s training.
It’s trust.
In a world full of screens and scans, there is still something deeply grounding about placing our hands on a growing belly and listening • through touch • to what the babies are telling us.
Midwifery is high skill and high touch. And when it comes to twins, those hands matter even more. 💛

02/14/2026

Just for fun! 🤩

02/10/2026

The story of family-centered care.
The story of hands-off labor and delivery.
The story of not being separated from your baby after delivery.
The story of being in charge of your own health care.
The story of trusting your body.

When we share our stories, we are empowering other women to fight for a better story for themselves.

If you’re willing to let us share your story, please fill out the short form using the link in our bio! You never know what piece of your journey someone else needs to hear.

02/05/2026

JOY and POWER! 💥 This is what birth can look like! We would love to support you on your journey to an empowered prenatal, labor, and birth experience. We are just a phone call or text away! 🤍

(432) 352-4868
anthusmidwives.com

02/04/2026

“I realized that if I had not arrived in time, that could have been a wonderful birth.”

Dr. Richard Jones of Brazil describes a story from his first few years of practice. He was called into an exam room where a woman was squatting on the floor, focused and pushing effectively. But Dr. Jones didn’t like it - he had been taught that a medically-managed birth is the only option for a safe birth.

This story and the realization that he had boorishly stepped in and altered a birth that “could have been wonderful,” led to a complete shift in his philosophy of birth. No longer wanting to practice from a place of ignorance and arrogance, he humbly dove in and learned about normal, physiological birth. He has spent decades serving women well and teaching others to do the same. ✨

02/02/2026

02/02/2026

A common question, and an important one!

But the research is there to back up the safety of home births. If mama and baby are healthy and low-risk, home is the safest place for them to be. 💛

01/31/2026

“You doing so good mama!”

We love when birth is a whole family affair. 🥰 We can just imagine what his little arms felt like around her neck as she labored to meet their new baby.

01/22/2026

But listen. It won’t hurt our feelings if you keep that baby right where he is until next week. 🫠❄️

01/22/2026

🤯🤯🤯 This is amazing! YOU can help protect your daughter, granddaughter, great-granddaughter, and great-great-granddaughter from breast cancer. 💪🏼

Just another example of how beautifully God designed our bodies to create, grow, birth, feed, and sustain our babies.