Luna Midwifery

11/14/2025

Looking forward to this!

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11/13/2025

We have come a long way in our collaborative efforts here in VA!!! Thank you to VDH for working hard to connect families with providers- including midwives!

11/10/2025

✨ Customized Placenta Prints ✨

Celebrate and honor the incredible power of the placenta! A meaningful keepsake to cherish your birth journey and the strength it represents.

Each print is lovingly created by Hannah, our resident artist and member of the Luna Midwifery team, transforming this sacred connection into a lasting piece of art.

If you’re interested in your own custom placenta print, please reach out. Hannah would be honored to make something special for you!
Hannahmilam92@gmail.com

11/06/2025

Hi friends! We are working on making more frequent content for social media and we'd love to share your birth stories! If this is something that you are open to, please send us your birth story and/or birth photos. Let us know if you'd like us to share names or keep them anonymous. We can tag you, or not! Just let us know your preferences. You can send them to lunamidwiferyva@gmail.com

Remember that life is not always perfect, and sometimes things don't go as we plan. I think we all need to work on sharing the imperfect details of life on social media, so don't be afraid to share messy details.

Maybe you don't want to share your story but you have some photos you wouldn't mind sharing for us to use when we post content. Please share with us if you feel open to!

We're also asking our past clients to take a moment and leave us a google review if you wouldn't mind. People find midwifery through the internet a lot these days and google reviews are helpful!

We're so grateful for all our clients. You are a gift, thank you!

11/03/2025

11/03/2025

A bittersweet time in midwifery care is when we have our final visits with families we have served. It's beautiful to walk alongside them through the expansion of their families and to see them graduate from care. Recently, this sweet family completed their care with us. We've been blessed to serve them for 2 pregnancies. We really love repeat clients. Getting to serve the same family multiple times helps make our bond stronger and helps us serve them better as we have a deeper connection with them. ✨ 💜 🌈

10/27/2025

🤍 The Power of Skin-to-Skin 🤍

One of the most profound moments after birth is the first time you hold your baby against your skin. You feel their warmth, heartbeat, and soft skin. That quiet connection — it’s not just beautiful, it’s biologically powerful.

Skin-to-skin contact helps your baby transition gently into the world. It regulates their temperature, heart rate, and breathing, stabilizes blood sugar, and even supports immune health. For parents, it releases oxytocin — the “love hormone” — promoting bonding, calm, and milk production.

As midwives, we’ve witnessed how these simple moments shape the days and weeks that follow. There’s something so special about watching a new family settle into that first embrace — where everything slows, all that hard work pays off and love takes over.

Skin-to-skin isn’t just a moment after birth. It’s medicine — nature’s way of saying, you belong to each other. 🤍

10/14/2025

Mark your calendars. We hope to see you there!

10/01/2025

Our team had the privilege of attending the Breech Master Class and Twin Training with Breech Without Borders today.

Pictured here with some of our team is Kristine, whose wisdom, experience, and passion for safe and evidence-based birth deeply inspired us. We are so thankful for all that she shared—from her years of attending births to the knowledge and hands-on skills she poured into our training over the last two days. This time of learning has strengthened and equipped us to better serve families in our community.

Pictured left to right - Nikki (birth assistant), Elissa (Midwife), Danielle (Senior Student Midwife) Kristine (breech without borders teacher), and Degra (Midwife)

A huge shoutout to Degra for setting this up for our community and making sure everything ran so smoothly—we are truly grateful!

09/30/2025

Today our midwifery team had the privilege of attending Breech Without Borders training — a powerful step toward being well-trained to safely attend breech births.

As Dr. Rixa Freeze reminds us: “Breech birth is dangerous because we don’t know what we’re doing.” We are committed to learning, practicing, and building the skills needed so that families have safe options when a breech birth arises.

Not everyone with a breech baby is a candidate for a vaginal breech birth, but with the right knowledge and training, many can avoid an unnecessary cesarean.

Grateful for the wisdom, courage, and confidence gained today. 💙

Breech Without Borders

09/15/2025

Luna midwifery is accepting clients for 2026! Are you thinking about a home birth? Have questions that you need to ask? Give us a call to schedule your free consultation! We look forward to working with you!

09/10/2025

“I'm so thankful for the support, comfort, and compassion my family and I received from Elissa and the Luna staff. I'm ever grateful for the relationship built with Elissa, who guided and encouraged me through two of my pregnancies, my second and third babies.
Having the comforts and ease of a home birth with my second and third, after experiencing an undesired hospital birth with my first, was of great importance to me. I received so much peace and reassurance from the Lord who provided Elissa not only as a trusted midwife to help bring my babies into this world but as a now dear friend.

Simeon, my third, out did his brother by one ounce, coming out at 10lb 8oz and covered in hair.”

Some words and photos from a client of Luna Midwifery. Shared with permission.