Simply HomeBirth Midwifery Services

11/07/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/health/electronic-fetal-monitoring-c-sections.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE8.OBYA.c1ExIS9iVha8&smid=url-share

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns, The Times found.

08/03/2025

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced it will no longer accept government funds due to “recent changes in federal funding laws and regulations.”

08/03/2025

The author worked as a nurse midwife in the 1960s, helping women deliver their babies in the mountains of Kentucky. This photo was taken during the making of a film about the work midwives were doing in Leslie County, Kentucky.

The author worked as a nurse midwife in the 1960s, helping women deliver their babies in the mountains of Kentucky. This photo was taken during the making of a film

02/11/2025

“Why is it so hard for our society to grasp the realness of birth?”

11/19/2024

https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/columnists/maternal-health-care-must-be-improved-not-politicized-column/article_5a32a660-a288-11ef-8fa1-6ba27657e274.html

In a nation divided — where 76 million American citizens voted for Donald Trump’s reelection while 73 million Americans voted to keep Kamala Harris in the White House — I

06/27/2024

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2024/06/27/midwifery-maternity-care-desert-health-birth-center/stories/202406270033

Babies are our future, and that means our nation's future depends on every expectant mother having access to quality maternity care. Unfortunately, many...

04/26/2024

“…Penny’s biggest gift was daring people to imagine the childbirth care we all deserve.
Penny’s work inspired everything I do,” said Dr. Neel Shah, now chief medical officer at the Maven Clinic, the world’s largest virtual clinic for women and families, and a former professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Harvard Medical School.

As a childbirth educator and maternal advocate, she promoted a profession that provides comfort to women giving birth and offers postpartum care as well.

12/18/2023

Abby Phillip reflects on her midwife-attended home birth, amidst the maternal mortality crisis that disproportionately affects Black women and demands multifaceted solutions.

03/31/2023

Most twins do not need to be born via cesarean section. Period. You have choices and deserve explanations when those choices are resisted.
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We need to normalize photos like this and take fear out of twin birth!
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Link in bio for one of my blogs about a birth center twin birth.
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03/31/2023

The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers has announced its 12th annual contest winners.

03/17/2023

As women continue to die due to pregnancy or childbirth each year in the United States, new federal data shows that the nation's maternal death rate rose significantly yet again in 2021, with the rates among Black women more than twice as high as those of White women.

09/20/2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/magazine/high-risk-pregnancy-dobbs.html

The photographer Stephanie Sinclair captured the newly unsettled world inside the Cleveland Clinic, where Ohio’s abortion laws have drastically changed maternal care.