Wild Womb Midwifery and Wellness

04/04/2026

Women’s Circle: Postpartum Self-Care & Nourishment 🌿

Join us for a heart-centered gathering created just for women navigating pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. This circle is a space to slow down, reconnect, and gently honor the incredible work your body has done—and continues to do.

Together, we’ll explore what true self-care looks like in this season of life:
✨ Supporting your body through nourishing foods and proper hydration
✨ Rebuilding strength with mindful, restorative movement
✨ Tuning into your body’s cues with compassion and awareness
✨ Creating space for rest, healing, and emotional balance

We will also open an honest and supportive conversation around postpartum emotions, including feelings of anxiety, overwhelm, and depression—because no mother should feel alone in her experience.

This is not about perfection—it’s about presence, connection, and caring for yourself in a way that feels sustainable and kind.

Come as you are. Leave feeling supported, seen, and nurtured. 💛

04/02/2026

Comment here your favorite thing about kids! 🥹❤️

04/02/2026

03/30/2026

Consistent, gentle movement in pregnancy can:

✨ Strengthen your core & pelvic floor
These muscles support your growing baby — and play a major role in recovery after birth.

✨ Improve circulation & reduce swelling
Helping your body stay balanced and reducing discomfort like leg swelling and varicose veins.

✨ Lower risk of complications
Research shows regular exercise may reduce risk of:
• Gestational diabetes
• High blood pressure disorders
• Excessive weight gain

✨ Build endurance for labor
Labor is physical — stamina and breath control matter.

What you do during pregnancy directly impacts how you recover after:

✨ Faster core & pelvic floor recovery
If you’ve maintained connection and strength, it’s easier to rebuild after birth.

✨ Less pain & better stability
Strong supportive muscles = less back, hip, and pelvic discomfort postpartum.

✨ Improved mental health
Movement helps regulate hormones and is linked to lower rates of
Postpartum Depression.

✨ Quicker return to daily function
Simple things like walking, lifting your baby, and moving through your day feel easier.

03/26/2026

Sometime it feels like that! 🤣🤣

03/24/2026

Choosing your birth provider is one of the most important decisions you’ll make in your pregnancy.

Your birth plan isn’t just a piece of paper—it’s your voice, your values, and your vision for bringing your baby into the world. You deserve a provider who doesn’t just glance at it, but truly listens, respects your choices, and is willing to have real conversations about your preferences.

The right provider will:
✨ Take time to understand what matters most to you
✨ Support informed decision-making—not pressure or fear
✨ Be prepared for different outcomes while still honoring your plan
✨ Treat you like an active participant in your birth—not a bystander

Birth is not one-size-fits-all. Your care shouldn’t be either.

If you’re wondering whether your current provider is the right fit—or you’re still searching—we’d love to connect with you.

📞 Reach out for a free consult and let’s talk about how we can support your kind of birth.
385-456-3340

02/25/2026

Routine cervical exams in labor are one of the most normalized practices in modern birth culture — but that doesn't mean they're necessary.

Here's why we don't do routine checks in labor:
1. Dilation doesn't predict the future.
Cervical dilation is not a stopwatch. A cervix can stay at 4-5 cm for hours... and then move to complete in a short window. Labor is hormonal and nonlinear. Research shows wide variation in normal labor patterns, even in healthy first-time mothers (Zhang et al., 2010, published in American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists guidance updates).

2. It doesn't tell you how someone is coping.
We assess the whole person - vocal tone, focus, movement, behavior, emotional shift, and physical cues.

These are often better indicators of labor progression than a number.
3. Exams can increase infection risk.
Multiple vaginal exams — especially after membranes rupture — are associated with higher rates of intra-amniotic infection (chorioamnionitis), as noted in obstetric literature and summarized in guidance from World Health Organization on intrapartum care.

4. It can disrupt physiology.
Labor thrives on oxytocin. Interruptions, bright lights, and repeated exams can raise stress hormones (catecholamines), which can slow contractions.

5. It changes the energy of the room.
Once a number is spoken, it can shift mindset - "only 3 cm" or "already 8 cm." Labor isn't a performance. It's a process.

We absolutely check when there's a clinical reason - consented, purposeful, and useful.
But routine, just-to-know checks? Not necessary for healthy, normally progressing labor.

Birth isn't managed by numbers.
It's guided by physiology.

02/19/2026

As midwives, we don't wait for emergencies to practice our skills — we rehearse them regularly.
Because when something intense happens, it's not the first time we're thinking through it. Our hands have done it before. Our minds have walked through it before. Our teamwork has been tested before.

One of the most important skills we continually train for is hemorrhage.

Postpartum hemorrhage is classically described using the "4 Ts":
• Tone - uterine atony (when the uterus does not contract effectively after birth). This is the most common cause.
• Tissue - retained placental tissue preventing the uterus from clamping down properly.
• Trauma - lacerations or uterine rupture.
• Thrombin - clotting disorders that impair the body's ability to stop bleeding.

These categories are well established in obstetric literature and are used across hospital and out-of-hospital settings to guide assessment and management.

But here's something important: numbers alone do not tell the whole story.

Traditionally, postpartum hemorrhage has been defined as ≥1000 mL blood loss after birth (ACOG guidelines).

However, research shows visual estimation of blood loss is often inaccurate, and more importantly - women tolerate blood loss very differently.

One client may lose a relatively small amount and become pale, dizzy, nauseated, tachycardic, or hypotensive quickly.

Another may lose significantly more and remain alert, steady, warm, and well perfused.

So we assess the whole picture.
We absolutely quantify blood loss.
But we also pay very close attention to:
• Mental status
• Skin color and temperature
• Capillary refill
• Heart rate trends
• Blood pressure
• How she says she feels
Transfer decisions are never just about a number for us.
They are about physiology. If someone is compensating beautifully and stable, that matters. If someone is decompensating with less volume lost, that matters even more.

And prevention begins long before birth.

02/16/2026

We are incredibly intentional with our prenatal care 🤍

Every appointment is more than checking boxes. We go deep into nutrition, movement, rest, emotional wellbeing, and the small daily choices that build strong, steady pregnancies. We talk about protein. Minerals. Hydration.
Functional movement. Sunshine. Stress. Real life.
Because peaceful births don't just "happen."
They're prepared for.

We believe that when a mother is nourished, informed, supported, and strong - her birth has the space to unfold in a calm, powerful, beautiful way.

Our goal isn't to manage your birth.
It's to prepare you so well that when the day comes, we can step back.

We want to be on the sidelines - steady, watchful, ready It needed — but mostly just your cheerleaders. Watching you trust your body. Watching you move through labor with confidence. Watching your partner step in strong.

Watching your baby arrive into a room that feels peaceful.

That kind of birth begins months before labor.

Intentional care.
Strong mamas.
Calm spaces.
Beautiful beginnings. 🤍

02/11/2026

Let's Talk About GBS - And What True Informed Consent Actually Looks Like
Group B Strep (GBS) is a bacteria that about 1 in 4 pregnant women naturally carry. It's not an infection. It's not an STD. It's simply part of normal flora for many people — and it usually causes no symptoms at all.
So why do we test for it?
Around 35-37 weeks, most providers offer a GBS swab because, in rare cases, GBS can pass to baby during labor and cause serious infection. The standard medical approach is:
→
Test in late pregnancy
• If positive, offer IV antibiotics during labor © Reduce the already small risk of newborn infection even further
For many families, that feels like a simple and reassuring plan.
But not everyone chooses that route.
Some families decline testing because:
• They don't feel comfortable with routine antibiotics

• They want to avoid IVs in labor
• They plan to use a risk-based approach instead (treating only if certain risk factors show up in labor like fever, prolonged rupture of membranes, etc.)
• They've researched absolute risk numbers and feel comfortable with watchful waiting
Some families test — but decline antibiotics.
Some decline testing - but agree to antibiotics if risk factors arise.
Some fully follow the standard recommendation.
In our practice, we also have a supportive, natural protocol that we offer to all clients regardless of GBS status. It focuses on supporting healthy vaginal flora and immune balance in late pregnancy. It is not a replacement for antibiotics when indicated, but an added layer of support that many families appreciate. As always, participation is optional — and decisions are individualized.

And here's the key:

✨ True informed concent is not everyone making the same decision.

It's everyone making a decision they understand.

True informed consent looks like:
• Knowing your actual risk (not just hearing
"your baby could die")
• Understanding benefits AND downsides of antibiotics
• Understanding alternatives
• Understanding what supportive options exist
• Being given space to ask questions
• Not being pressured
• Not being shamed
It looks like a provider saying:
"Here's the evidence. Here are the risks. Here are your options. What feels right for you?"

Because autonomy doesn't disappear in pregnancy.

Whether someone tests or doesn't, accepts antibiotics or declines — the goal isn't compliance.

The goal is informed, supported, empowered decision-making.

02/07/2026

This is our suture practice as Midwives 🫶🏼

We don't get the same volume of tears and repairs that a busy hospital might see — and honestly, we're okay with that. Fewer interventions is kind of the goal. But when our clients do need us, we want our hands to be steady, skilled, and confident.

So we practice.
We review.
We take extra trainings.
We critique each other.

We stay humble and keep learning.
Because being "low risk" providers doesn't mean low standards. It means we work even harder behind the scenes to maintain them.

Every stitch matters. Every repair matters. Every mama matters.
Our commitment is simple: if you need us, we're ready.

Not just compassionate — but competent. Not just supportive - but skilled.


This is part of loving our clients well.

02/03/2026

We're lucky enough to have one of our lovely Midwives
able to do cranial sacral on our
clients.
Craniosacral therapy is a very gentle, hands-on bodywork that supports the nervous system by focusing on the head, spine, and sacrum. For babies and birthing bodies, it's all about helping the body release tension from pregnancy and the journey through birth.
Birth—no matter how it looks-can be intense on a tiny body. Tight spaces, long labors, fast labors, positioning, interventions... all of it can leave little areas of restriction.
Craniosacral offers soft support to help babies unwind and settle.
For babies, it may help with:
• Difficulty latching or feeding
• Tension in the jaw, neck, or body
• Reflux, gas, or fussiness
• Trouble settling or sleeping
• Preference to turn the head one way
• Supporting overall regulation and calm
For birthing & postpartum parents:
• Gentle nervous system regulation
• Support after long, fast, or challenging births
• Emotional processing after birth
• Relief from tension held in the pelvis, spine, and jaw
• A deeper sense of grounding and rest
This work is never forceful. No cracking. No pushing.
Just slow, intentional touch and deep listening to the body.
Because sometimes what babies (and parents) need most after birth... is space to soften, integrate, and feel safe again fr
is this something you have tried? What has been your experience with it?