Born Wild Midwifery

01/31/2026

✨ This year, I choose differently. ✨

I choose clarity over overwhelm,
agency over pressure,
and inner alignment over applause.

This work asks for presence, discernment, and humility.
It asks us to listen deeply — to bodies, to babies, to families, and to ourselves.
Not everything meaningful is loud.
Not everything aligned is celebrated.

But integrity has its own quiet power.
And I trust that.

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01/27/2026

🤍 Women have always supported women in birth 🤍
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Before hospitals.
Before charts.
Before strangers entered the room.
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👩🏽‍🍼 Women gathered.
🤲 Hands steadied bodies.
🕯️ Knowledge was shared, not withheld.
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Birth was never meant to be done alone.
It was held — in circles, in trust, in community.
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We’re not creating something new.
We’re remembering something ancient.
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01/26/2026

🖤 A Labor Sign Worth Knowing 🖤
(especially for out-of-hospital & physiologic birth)

This thick, dark stool during labor isn’t random.

👉 When you see this in labor, it’s a strong clue that baby may be breech.

Why?
In breech babies, the butt and bowels are lower in the pelvis, and with contractions and descent, they can pass meconium before birth — without distress.

✨ This is different from the thin, diluted meconium we worry about with fetal stress.
✨ In breech labor, this kind of stool can be a positional sign, not a red flag.

🔍 What this can tell a skilled provider:
• Re-check fetal position
• Listen carefully to heart tones
• Prepare for breech physiology
• Adjust hands-on support & birth planning

💡 Knowledge = calm + readiness.
When you understand what the body is communicating, you can respond instead of react.

Birth speaks — we just have to know how to listen 🤍






Tagging accounts doing important breech work 👇

01/24/2026

Some days look like this 🤍
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🕯️ Care unfolding slowly
🏡 Familiar space, soft light
👐 Steady hands, quiet trust
🐾 Dogs asleep on their backs

This is what safety looks like.
This is what care can feel like.

Grateful for care that meets people
exactly where they are. ✨

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01/21/2026

Held. Warm. Witnessed. 🌊✨
A waterbirth at home — where physiology is honored, siblings are welcomed, and a new life is received in calm, loving hands. This is what happens when families are supported, time is protected, and birth unfolds in its own rhythm.
It is an honor to attend births like this and to walk alongside families as they welcome their babies earthside.
🤍 Born at home
🤍 Supported by midwives
🤍 Surrounded by love

01/20/2026

Tiny lungs. Steady hearts.
Gentle hands.

We love these early days — listening, slowing down, and making space for everyone to belong, including curious big siblings. 🤍

This is the work we love.

✨🫶🏼👶🏼

01/16/2026

A transfer after a planned home birth 🤍

This wasn’t the plan—but it was the right next step.

A transfer doesn’t mean something went wrong.
It means we were listening.
Watching patterns.
Trusting the process and the tools available when they’re needed.

This was a calm, supported transfer.
Continuity of care.
Advocacy intact.
Family surrounded by love, steadiness, and reassurance every step of the way.

Home birth and hospital birth aren’t opposites.
They’re part of the same spectrum of care when the goal is the same:
a safe parent, a safe baby, and informed, respectful decision-making.

So much strength lives in flexibility.
So much wisdom lives in knowing when to pivot.
So much beauty lives in being held—by family, by providers, by the moment itself.

Honored to walk with families through all of birth, not just the parts that look a certain way.

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01/15/2026

“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.”
— Anatole France

True learning begins the moment we stop pretending we have all the answers… and start embracing the beautiful space of curiosity, questions, and growth.

To every student out there: your willingness to say “I don’t know yet” is actually one of the smartest things you’ll ever do. 💡✨
Keep questioning. Keep learning. Keep growing.

01/14/2026

The girls heard their baby sibling’s heartbeat for the very first time — wide eyes, quiet excitement, hands on mama’s belly. Watching her oldest bond instantly with Eva was so sweet.

This mama has chosen me to support her through all three of her pregnancies, and I feel so honored — and genuinely excited — to walk alongside their family again as they welcome this baby later this summer.

This is why continuity of care matters.
Children growing up around birth.
Families held over years, not just pregnancies.

So grateful to be here. 💛

01/14/2026

Birth isn’t broken. The system is.

When protocols override presence and fear replaces trust, families are walking away—and remembering older, wiser ways of birthing.

Full story + podcast: bornwildmidwifery.com/blog/when-the-system-walks-out-reclaiming-birth-from-midwifery-abandonment

Discover how Traditional Birth Attendant Madison Desjarlais helps families reclaim power after midwifery abandonment. Learn about free birth, the BRAIN acronym, and sacred birth.

01/13/2026

Prenatal care, the long-arc version 🤍
Listening to baby. Updating charts. Sharing food. Laughing together.

Care doesn’t stop at vitals and measurements — it includes nourishment, connection, comfort, and trust built over time.

This is what relationship-centered midwifery looks like.

01/12/2026

The moment the world gets very small 🤍
Just breath, warmth, and the first quiet meeting.

This is why we protect uninterrupted bonding — so families can land together, regulate together, and begin this new chapter held in safety and love.

Birth ends.
Family begins.