Mountain Family Midwifery

12/31/2025

As I write this post I’m heading to my last birth of 2025! What a beautiful year of births it has been. Yesterday I looked back through my notes on each birth, and I saw quite a few “long 2nd stage, strong client, difficult push” BUT also equal amounts of “straightforward water birth” or even a couple “so fast I didn’t make it!” (To my credit, I did make it to a birth for a mom who has her babies so fast that her previous TWO births were both unattended!)

Here are some fun numbers for 2025:
Biggest baby 9 lbs 9 oz
Smallest baby 4 lb 3 oz
35 total births
8 water births
8 Amish births
19 Boys
16 Girls
Three births in one day (TWICE)
12 first-time parents
2 HBACs yay!
All time c section 8%
All time VBAC success rate 86%

Thank you families for choosing me to be your midwife! Thank you babies and placentas for being so resilient. This spring I’ll celebrate 20 years of attending births and I’m so grateful for all of it. 💜

12/13/2025

When all the December babies arrive in the same 24 hr period 😍😳 welcome babies! Happy Birth Day✨

12/05/2025

Mountain Family Midwifery’s annual Christmas tree in Holiday Park is liveeeee ❤️ come check it out if you’re in Salida! Merry Christmas to the babies born this year! And Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all you amazing love bugs out there 🎄

10/22/2025

What is this a picture of?

A) A sweet young girl’s fanciful depiction of all the babies she would like to play with

B) The actual number of babies born in my practice this fall

C) What happens when everyone conceives around Christmas/New Years

D) All of the above! 💕

09/23/2025

In this time of so many opinions swirling, here’s a great evidence-based article from Dr. Romm ✨

Headaches in pregnancy are a common prenatal problem and there are effective, safe alternatives to tylenol and other medications.

09/15/2025

Something I’ve noticed over the years ✨

When births happen close together, there will be some striking similarities- I call it twinning up. These two babies were twinning all over the place! They both gestated at high elevations, one in Mount crested Butte at 9700 ft, and one in the hills *above* Leadville at 11000 ft. And they were both chunky babies- one was 9,12 and one was 9,0! But the twinning doesn’t stop there: both moms were first-timers and both babies were born at home through extra challenging labors! And then there were the dads- both dads stepped up, especially postpartum with hearts full of loving service and so much resiliency. Deep bows of gratitude to these strong mamas, strong babies, and strong papas! And welcome to the world baby C and baby W. ❤️

09/10/2025

Two births, two babies, two toddler siblings so excited to meet the newest member of their family! Welcome to the world baby J and baby C!

06/15/2025

Happy Fathers Day! Thank you dads for all the fun, support and love you bring to your families!

05/29/2025

My absolute favorite moment of any day is these texts 🥹

02/24/2025

Nine babies joined us since New Years! ✨✨✨ Some of the births were smooth like butter, some were much more complicated. Some were tiny, and some were hefty! Two girls and SEVEN boys. All are healthy, precious and thriving! So grateful for the families I get to work with and the babies I get to admire 😍

02/13/2025

Beautiful ✅
Intense ✅
Powerful ✅
Traumatic ✅
Surprising ✅
Perfect✅
Joyful ✅
Safe✅

I had the immense honor of working with this new family recently, watching them grow through their first pregnancy, find their paths as new parents and welcome their baby boy to the world. Colter Creede was born January 1st, a New Years Capricorn baby, weighing a little less than we expected at 5,7 but a sweet healthy boy nonetheless. Births don’t proceed according to our expectations, and this little one had his own plan for his entrance to the world! Welcome to the world Colter! 🤍🩵💙

I wish I could keep this squishy adorable family in my back pocket wherever I go. Congratulations Buck and Zoe! Thank you for choosing me to walk beside you through your pregnancy, birth and early parenting. I have so much joy for your perfectly imperfect journey and the deep love that resides in your home. 💜

02/07/2025

As I sit here with this beautiful family and their new baby boy, I have such gratitude that they were willing to travel to Colorado for her third VBAC. Her first birth was a c-section for breech, which is a whole other soapbox. But given the way our system governs VBACs, this mom would’ve been on her FOURTH surgical birth at this point. I’m so grateful that she doesn’t have the risk of each additional uterine scar, as her home state of Kansas would’ve asked of her. I’m so happy for her that she brings her babies to the world in a way that empowers her! I’m so proud of VBAC families, and I’m so proud to help VBAC families. Diligent risk-assessment and attention to intuition lead to best outcomes.