Sacred Space Midwifery & Holistic Health

10/04/2025

It is with mixed emotion that I announce taking time off call from May through July 2026. This will be my first significant span of time off call in almost 20 years as a student midwife, a doula, an assistant midwife, and a primary midwife. I am excited for sleep, exploration, and a nervous system reset, while also being sad about the births I will miss and the families I won't be able to serve. During that time, I will still be offering all my other services, including birth processing, birth preparation, community care packages, and more exciting services to come!

10/03/2025

Thank you, , for the insanely generous gift of herbs. The first item on the list of things to make is Sleep Nectar from The First 40 Days. I'm so excited for all the herby goodness still left to explore.

11/25/2024

11/07/2024

We can’t wait to see our clients at Sound Healing tonight! 🫶 Plus, save the date for our next classes: Insurance 101 and Self Defense. 

November 21: Learn how to review insurance coverage options and make the right choice for your health, auto and home.

December 5 & 12: Practice essential self-defense skills with local instructors. This is a 2-session class and require both days of attendance.

📲RSVP with MaryAlice at mashort@dvrcnv.org or 775.450.4851.

07/19/2024

A great event if you are breast/chestfeeding!

Save the date!

04/11/2024

You are not alone 🧡

Join us for our online Stillbirth & Infant Loss Support for Parents support group ❤️

This support group is for parents who have experienced stillbirth or early infant loss. Our group is here to provide support and connection to bereaved parents as we know losing a baby can be an isolating and devastating experience. This group is led by trained peer facilitators who have also experienced stillbirth/infant loss. You are not alone, and we are here to help.

Learn more and register at bit.ly/FindSupportGroup

03/23/2024

We are proud to offer multiple online peer support groups for parents who have experienced perinatal and infant loss, including:
🔹 Black Moms in Loss
🔹 Early Pregnancy Loss Support for Moms
🔹 Pregnancy After Loss
🔹 Parenting After Loss
🔹 Pregnancy After Stillbirth & Infant Loss
🔹 Stillbirth & Infant Loss Support for Parents
🔹 Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support for Moms
🔹 Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support for Parents
🔹 Termination for Medical Reasons.

You are not alone 💙 Learn more about our loss support groups, view the schedule, and register at http://bit.ly/FindSupportGroup.

If you need help or support:
🔷 Call or text the Postpartum Support International HelpLine at 800-944-4773. You never need a diagnosis to ask for help.
🔷 Call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 1-833-852-6262
🔷 In a crisis situation, call or text the National Su***de & Crisis Lifeline at 988.
🔷 Visit postpartum.net for additional programs and resources.

01/15/2024

PSI has a wide variety of postpartum support groups for everyone. And they're FREE!

PSI’s Q***r & Trans Parent Support Group is FREE and open to all members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are expecting, adopting, and/or parenting from pregnancy to four years postpartum. This group is intended for gestational, non-gestational and foster or adoptive parents. This group is open to all parents from pregnancy to four years postpartum who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community. The group leaders are peer facilitators who are also part of the q***r and trans community. You are not alone, and we welcome you to our group space.

View Schedule & Register: bit.ly/FindSupportGroup

**When registering for Sharewell for the first time skip the unlimited offer on the payment page (all of our groups are free!)**

09/10/2023

Come join us!
We have ONE spot available in our 5-week Lamaze Childbirth Series starting September 17th. We are offering a 30% discount if you are interested in signing up! (The discount will already be reflected on the sign up page.)
It says it is geared toward home birth, but it would also be appropriate for someone planning a hospital birth as well.

This complete series will cover all things birth related, including nutrition, comfort measures, pelvic floor function, postpartum planning, baby care, perinatal mental health, stages of labor, emotional preparation, resilience building, advocating for yourself, and more.

07/27/2023

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's not your fault🧡

Pregnancy and birth complications are not moral failings. There is nothing you can do to definitely prevent Gestational Diabetes, preeclampsia, prodromal or slow labor, tearing, or any other complication/health problem. There is magic to pregnancy and birth, and a major part of that magic is not knowing how any pregnancy will play out. If your water breaks before labor and contractions don’t start there will never be a clear explanation for why that happened. Even if you did “everything” right, if you get to a point in which the risk of infection is more concerning than the risk of intervention, it’s not a failing of you, your body, your baby, your education, or your provider to need to use interventions in order to get labor started. If you’re diagnosed with gestational diabetes and you “do everything right” with diet and exercise and herbs to try to manage your blood sugar but it keeps being elevated - it’s not your fault! There’s no ‘fault’ in the magic of placentas and genetics and epigenetics. Needing medications is not a moral falling.

Consider, when you’ve heard that someone else was diagnosed with ________ (fill in the blank) did some small part of you deep in your brain think, “oh that’s terrible, good thing that won’t happen to me because I’ve done XZY?” Or, “how terrible when that happens to OTHER people,” without considering that it could also happen to you? We’re all susceptible to the Just World Fallacy, the bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will necessarily have morally fair and fitting consequences for the actor. Why is that person homeless? Well they must have done something wrong, it couldn’t just be luck.

We adhere to the same fallacy in birth as well - why did they have a cesarean? Must be because they chose to give birth at that hospital, or because they didn’t take Childbirth ed class, or do optimal fetal positioning exercises, or eaten well, or exercised, or or or…. There’s always something that we point to in order to tell ourselves that the world isn’t random. But it is! Birth is random and magical and sometimes it varies away from normal, and this is the beauty of our natural world.
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