Born Wild Midwifery

11/14/2025

Birth Plan: Does the Path Still Fit the Objective?
Do the Means Still Fulfill the Purpose?
by Zuzana Laubmann, Midwifery Today, Issue 146 (Summer 2023)

One of our favorite reminders from this piece is that a birth plan isn’t really about checking boxes or perfectly mapping out every moment—it’s about clarity, connection, and intention.

Laubmann invites us to look deeper:
✨ Are our plans still aligned with the why behind them?
✨ Do the choices we lay out actually support the lived experience we want?
✨ Does the path still serve the purpose?

Instead of rigid scripts, she encourages a “living document”—one rooted in communication, trust, flexibility, and true partnership between the birthing person and their care team.

It’s not about controlling birth.
It’s about honoring the body’s wisdom, meeting its needs in real time, and surrounding families with people who can respond with presence, patience, and skill.

Whether you’re planning your first birth, supporting a friend, or working in the birth world, this article is a beautiful reminder to shift the lens from what we plan to why we plan.

Birth is dynamic.
Birth plans can be, too. 🤍

11/13/2025

✨ “She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” – Elizabeth Edwards ✨

Birth asks us to soften and surrender, but it also asks us to rise.
To lean into the intensity.
To trust our strength even when the waves shift course.

We witnessed this mama find her breath, anchor into her partner, and let her body lead the way. This moment… the grounding, the connection, the steadiness… it’s everything.

Birth isn’t about control — it’s about alignment.
Adjusting your sails.
Letting yourself be held.
And meeting your baby with your whole heart. 🤍

11/12/2025

☀️ Daytime births ☀️
There’s something extra special about the light that pours into a room when a baby chooses to arrive during the day. The energy feels grounded, calm, and quietly powerful — like the whole world pauses to welcome this new little soul.

We love when the sun is shining, coffee is still warm, and laughter fills the air between contractions. Midday births remind us that birth doesn’t always have to happen in the still of night — sometimes it’s pure golden hour magic. ✨

11/11/2025

🚿✨ Midwife life means adapting… and sometimes that means hanging out in the shower while mama finds her groove.

Why do they always end up pushing in the smallest room of the whole house?! 😂
Bathroom births are undefeated. Cozy, dim, steamy, primal… and apparently the ideal place for deep squats, mighty pushes, and midwives perched wherever we can fit.

Shower stall office? ✔️
Toilet throne power station? ✔️
Birth magic happening exactly where it needs to happen? Always. 💛

Birth is wild, sacred, and sometimes hilariously cramped — and we wouldn’t have it any other way. 🌿✨

11/10/2025

✨ Surrender & Strength ✨
There’s a sacred stillness that comes in labor — the in-between where time stretches, breath deepens, and the body leads the way.
Water becomes both comfort and catalyst, softening everything it touches.
This is where birth begins — not with pushing, but with trust.

11/09/2025

✨ The True Tale of a Beloved Birthkeeper’s Brew ✨

Long before “pregnancy tea” was a thing you could grab off a shelf, midwives and herbalists were handcrafting blends from the earth — learning, experimenting, and sharing what truly supported women through the seasons of birth. 🌿

This story by classical midwife Carol Gaulschi tells how her Pregnancy Herbal Infusion was born — a simple, sacred mix of nettle, raspberry leaf, alfalfa, and (eventually!) oat straw. What began as an herbal experiment became a worldwide tradition, passed from midwife to midwife, mother to mother. 💛

Still steeped overnight, still loved for its power.
A timeless reminder that the best medicine often starts as a conversation between healers and herbs. 🌾

11/07/2025

Elimination Communication… aka “reading your baby’s mind before they p**p on you.” 💩✨

It’s not about early potty training — it’s about teamwork.
You learn their cues, they learn your timing, and sometimes… you both get it right. (And sometimes not 😅).

Think of it as baby whispering meets bathroom buddy system.
It’s messy, it’s hilarious, and it’s kind of amazing when it works.

Here’s to fewer blowouts and more intuition 🫶

11/06/2025

✨ Elimination Communication (EC) isn’t about “potty training early” — it’s about communication and connection.

Babies are born with natural cues for when they need to p*e or p**p. Just like hunger or tiredness, they show signals — squirming, fussing, going quiet, or making certain faces. EC simply means tuning in to those cues and offering them a chance to go in a potty, sink, or bowl instead of a diaper.

It can be part-time, full-time, or just for certain times of day — no pressure, no perfection. 🌿
It’s a beautiful way to build trust, reduce diaper waste, and honor your baby’s natural awareness.

Have you tried EC or noticed your baby’s “I need to go” signals?

11/05/2025

✨ Prenatal visits are some of our favorite moments — where trust, laughter, and connection come together.

Each visit is a chance to tune in: to your baby, your body, your breath.
We listen, measure, feel for position, and talk through how you’re doing — not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually too.

It’s quiet, grounding work — and it’s such an honor to walk beside families through this season. 🌙🤍

11/05/2025

After miscarriage, a cesarean, and saying goodbye to her breech-born daughter Juliet, Lori chose a wild pregnancy and freebirth. At 39 weeks she delivered twins at home—Novella and Olive—one breech, both into her hands. This birth healed backward and forward: body, lineage, and spirit.

Read Lori’s journey and find strength for your own path: http://bornwildmidwifery.com/blog/from-grief-to-grace-loris-journey-through-loss-wild-pregnancy-and-twin-freebirth

Then hear it in her voice on the Born Wild Podcast.

From loss and cesarean to freebirth and healing twin delivery, Lori’s story is a powerful testament to the wisdom of wild pregnancy and the sacred path of birth.

11/04/2025

Real life moments — the ones that don’t always make it to the highlight reel.
The tears, the giggles, the deep breaths as everyone adjusts to their new rhythm. 💛
These are the moments that matter most — the tender beginnings of a growing family.

At Born Wild Midwifery, we honor it all — the raw, the messy, the beautiful truth of becoming. 🌿

11/03/2025

🌿 Placenta Teaching Moment

This placenta belonged to a mama who experienced third-trimester bleeding from a low-lying placenta.

After two home births, she made the difficult but wise decision to birth in the hospital — just in case.
💛 The most important thing is always to birth where you feel safe and supported.

When we examined her placenta, it appeared that one edge had slowly begun to p*el back from the uterine wall, causing bleeding that would clot and reseal over time. By the time she went into spontaneous labor, about one-third of the placenta had been affected.

It also showed a velamentous cord insertion, where the umbilical vessels branch out and insert into the membranes before reaching the placenta — a variation we’ve seen before, but still always fascinating.

The hospital staff had never seen a placenta with this kind of p*eling and healing pattern — and neither had our team.
Yet her body adapted beautifully, and she went on to have a smooth, uncomplicated birth.

✨ The human body is incredible.
✨ Safety and intuition can coexist.
✨ Every placenta tells a story.