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Concierge prenatal care, homebirth, doula support, as well as many other birth related services in the Tampa and St Pete area!

Concierge prenatal care and homebirth as well as many other birth related services in the greater Tampa Bay Area

12/11/2025

I’ve spent the last 2 days visiting lots of colleagues in north east Florida for updating preceptor files, one of which was someone many of you know well- Jenn MF Stone!
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I had the honor of training Jenn up many, many years ago and since she has moved back home and built a thriving practice in her hometown of Jacksonville. Since then she has now trained many other students who have gone on to build their own midwifery practices. What a gift to the world that just makes my mama midwife heart real big.
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Jenn coined the ridiculous albeit hilarious (Charlie’s Always Right) and helped to conceive and open the original . She attended so so many births along side me, held me up in practice when I lost my son, and went along with my crazy ideas with a childlike wonder I will never forget. Anyone who knows Jenn knows she’s one of a kind ❤️
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Midwifery has a 7 year burnout rate. Seeing my previous students make it, seeing communities continue to be served, and seeing the legacy of midwifery in Florida continue to grow is such a damn gift!

11/21/2025

We had a super sweet time at the Great American Teach In sharing midwifery with 2nd and 4th graders.
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Sharing midwifery in this way makes a huge impact on younger generations to know what options they have for care themselves when they’re big AND maybe what they might want to do to help pregnant folks and their babies when they grow up 🥲
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May we all be as curious as the 7 year olds who are baffled by their belly buttons 🤓

11/12/2025

Another magical birth for these first time parents. She made it just about to 42 weeks before she drank the juice and a good 40 hours later, Yuna made her grand entrance.

Choosing your birth team matters! PLEASE find people who truly see you, support you, and help you reach your birth goals. Not a single tear in sight, just a pair of perfectly shaped breastfeeding ni***es ready to kick off their new journey. 💕

So proud of this sweet family and so thankful for the incredible team that surrounded them with love and care. Thank you and for being amazing and taking the best photos!

11/06/2025

One of my favorite things to do for clients on their birthing day is to send them baby’s birth chart.
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Today that big beaver moon in Ta**us brought a lil one who is a Scorpio☀️, Gemini 🌕, and a Capricorn⬆️
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There is magic everywhere and our job as midwives is to capture even just a lil of it for you ❤️✨

11/04/2025

Here is the thing about being a tired, worn out shell of yourself as a mama…. I get it. I’ve been there. It was my constant state for many years. It informs my midwifery practice and it informs how I care for every single client who sits in front of me.
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While common in our culture, it is NOT NORMAL to feel run down, exhausted, depressed, empty, listless, uncomfortable, unable to sleep, tired but wired. These are all symptoms of much deeper issues we’ve learned to hide away or dismiss as ‘just a part of motherhood.’
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I love supporting folks through the entire spectrum of humanness these days. Being someone with ovaries and the hormone waves that comes with that is a gift AND a special dance many of us must relearn.
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Whether you want to conceive, can’t get enough sleep, feel constantly run down, or need extra space held for you in your pregnancy or birth- we’ve got you so you can get you too. Let’s get your hormones happy, your sleep fine tuned, your gut doing its job, and your nervous system a bit more regulated.
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Midwives dig deeper. We listen longer. We support your wholeness without immediately dismissing your concerns or opting for the most invasive approach. You’ve got this mama, and we’ve got you ❤️

10/29/2025

When this mama called at 4:10 to say her water had broken, I knew it was go time! With her history of precipitous labors (less than 3 hours) and nearly an hour’s drive ahead, I headed out right away.

I arrived at 5:04 and baby Riggs joined us at 5:07. Even with the rush, her calm and peaceful energy filled the room; a perfect reminder of the power of instinct and trust in birth. Great job 🥰🥰

10/28/2025

Taking care of colleagues always feels like the sweetest most sacred of privileges. We all suffer from the ‘too much knowing’ when we’re birthworkers who are pregnant. Having someone who understands the depths of that and can swim with you in them is such a game changer in every direction.
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I have been both midwife and mama in so many spaces and iterations. Clients who I get to walk with professionally, personally, and so intimately is a gift I could have never imagined throughout the years in this work.
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Thank you for trusting us with your space, your self, your baby, and your heart ❤️

10/23/2025

Navigating the health care system in America can be daunting at best, absolutely enraging at worst. In our practice we have consistently made it a point to make midwifery care accessible for ALL families. We accept Florida Medicaid (Sunshine and Simply) and have affordable options for self pay folk

10/16/2025

There are 17 years, a few more earned grey hairs, and a whole new midwife between these two photos.
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Had a sweet visit with Melissa and Michelle over at today.
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Melissa was one of the first midwives I ever saw catch a baby. A true mother’s midwife. Heart of a lion, hands of a lady, and eyes of a hawk. I saw in her the midwife I wanted to grow into someday. The one that sits on her hands, who calmly asks a baby to breathe, the kind who makes mamas know to their bones they were made for this. Not because of anything she could or couldn’t do for them, but simply because this was an innate truth within themselves.
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We’ve seen our share of trials alongside one another for years. We’ve disagreed, stomped our feet, and still always come back to a shared vision- midwifery that is safe, respectful, and legacy building. Carrying the torch from those before us gracefully and without fuss. Always choosing to do the right thing even if it’s the hard thing.
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It’s such a gift to ‘go home’ and remember where you came from. Melissa, Marianne, Amanda, and Casey were the first women to drag me into midwifery- truly raising me up all those years in the heart of the swamp. They’re all still saved in my phone with ‘Labor of Love’ as their last names, the birth center in Lakeland where we all worked. Even as the years have passed, practices shifted, and we all continued on- it is something I’ve never been able to bring myself to change. My own little nod to the women who believed in me, who believed deeply in community midwifery, and who mothered me in so many parts of my own journey of life.
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Labor of Love is fittingly Celebrate Birth these days and continues just up the road. Just like me, the families of Polk and Highlands counties are just so lucky to be and have been loved by these midwives❤️

10/01/2025

From the very beginning, this little one was Miss Independent. She carried that spirit from her prenatal journey to birth. She went from 0 to 57 in 2.8 seconds just like the Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster at Hollywood Studios, delivering both baby and placenta less than 10 minutes before we arrived! Her birth was swift and a little messy, but her postpartum has been slow, gentle, and beautiful. I’m so proud of you for taking charge of your care.

09/30/2025

As midwives, we take caring for ourselves as seriously as we do all of our families in care.
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Midwifery has a 7 year burnout rate. We’ve both had to learn the hard way sometimes that if we don’t prioritize our own well being we can’t show up for y’all as fully. What does this mean for each of us?
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For Sarah, she takes time recharge by tending to her garden, cooking for friends and family, going to yoga, soaking in a warm bath, watching her chickens and pups play, and of course treating herself to monthly massages- keeping herself recharged and grounded.
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For Charlie that means lots of time outside. Walking in first morning light, riding bikes or skating with friends, finding play wherever she can. Making her yoga practice, contrast therapy, and prioritizing fueling with real food as nonnegotiables.
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We want our families to see us living the very principals we share with all of you to have your best childbearing lives. It isn’t easy AND it’s the only way we can keep showing up for all of you. For your long labor nights, your visits where things are too heavy to hold alone, and holding you wide berths of space to experience the magic that is being a human with other humans who deeply care.

Address

2740 Florida Avenue
Tampa, FL
33602

Telephone

+18135150825

Website

http://www.barefootbirth.com/

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