Refuge Midwifery

02/27/2026

💛 Our Infant Feeding Support Group w/ Steph Brown, IBCLC .b.ibclc has a NEW TIME ⁠
🌀 Join us this upcoming Wednesday March 4th at 1:30pm at ⁠
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This group is open to all who are looking for support and community. A scale is available for weighted feeds and check ins. ⁠
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Our office is ADA accessible, masks are not required. Come and be held. 🤲🏻⁠
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⏰️ Every other Wednesday from 1:30pm-3pm⁠
📍 Location: West Philly Wellness, 3641 Lancaster Ave⁠
📅 Upcoming Dates: 3/4, 3/18, 4/1

02/18/2026

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02/12/2026

Hey Community! After a few busy seasons teaching hundreds of midwives how to offer q***r centered fertility care, we’ve expanded IUI for Healthcare Providers into a comprehensive self-paced online course that teaches everything you need to know to offer Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) in a Midwifery, GYN, or Primary Care practice. 🔗

This self-paced course will teach you everything you need to know to offer Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) in a Primary Care, Midwifery or GYN practice.

02/12/2026

Come with Victoria for a *pretty eventful* week as a homebirth midwife!⁠
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👶🏽 Three labors⁠
🗒️ Peer Review⁠
🧪 Doing an in-office IUI

02/10/2026

💛 Welcome Logan! We are in absolute awe of what it took to get this little dumpling here. It took 42 weeks and 24 hours of labor (which their parent pointed out is still much shorter than the 72 hours it took for the first baby)⁠
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Also shoutout to the three incredible friends who literally hung out all night in camping chairs in the kitchen and brought us Dunkin in the middle of the night 😭

02/05/2026

Welcome Henry! He came quickly and early, which first time parents always hope for, but can rarely plan for.

This family made a last minute pivot to homebirth after thinking about how to best meet their goals of an unmedicated, low intervention birth. there’s a lot of reasons why someone would come later into homebirth care in the third trimester.

For those who have gotten standard prenatal care with another provider and have stayed low risk, I’ve had some really wonderful experiences with late transfers into care!

02/04/2026

Come with me to teach q***r competency and IUI skills to midwifery students at Vanderbilt University 🧑‍🏫💉🩺

01/31/2026

Here’s some q***r family birth joy. Powerful moments like this remind us that humans persist despite the perils around us. Midwives protect the moments where we are created in both love and power 🤲🏻💜 daytime birth a little while back w

01/26/2026

“The children are always ours, every single one of them” -James Baldwin
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Liam Conejo Ramos is now the fourth child from his school district to be taken away by ICE in just the past two weeks.

We are shaken and outraged by the violence of ICE.

If you are looking for ways to take concrete action here in Pennsylvania, you can call on Governor Shapiro to end state collaboration with ICE.

Text Governor Shapiro directly:
📲 717-788-8990
Call Governor Shapiro directly:
☎️ 717-787-2500

More ways to take action here: bit.ly/3McjBhk
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01/20/2026

Happy Birthday Ray!

Somehow, birthdays seem to become just another day… but regardless, Ray’s mom always calls them at 11:55am on their birthday, the time that they came into the world!

Ray’s mom had an unmedicated birth in the hospital after a high risk pregnancy. At Refuge, we think that birthdays should actually be celebrated as “birthing days” for our parents.

So, happy birthing day!