Miracle Pregnancy & Birth Services

05/25/2025

Stay tuned…I ❤️ NY

The Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act will categorize all prenatal and postpartum expenses as essential health benefits.

02/28/2025

I was on call for four months straight, while working my regular day job, so I took six months off, and now I'M BACK!
Working as a doula, I find myself the most able to make a difference as an objective, but caring support person in a hospital setting.
So if you're planning to deliver this year, consider the support a doula can provide.

Are you expecting a baby and feeling overwhelmed by the choices ahead? Discover how hiring a doula can provide you with the support you need to navigate this life-changing journey, ensuring a more positive birth experience.

02/24/2025

This is a great deal!

Based on the female-centered Midwifery Model of Care and drawing upon her decades of experience, Ina May Gaskin gives expectant mothers comprehensive information on everything from the all-important mind-body connection to how to give birth without technological intervention. Filled wi...

12/08/2024

What a gift, be sure to use it!

New York is becoming the first state in the nation to offer paid prenatal leave! Starting January 1, pregnant women will be able to attend their checkups without sacrificing a paycheck. We’re leading the way to make life a little easier for working families.

08/26/2024

05/10/2024

Thank you for all of your contributions to the field of birth working. Your legacy lives on in so many of us.

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

04/18/2024

"In 2024, over 18% of Fortune 500 companies provide birth doula support through a reimbursement"

/PRNewswire/ -- Fors Marsh, a company comprised of researchers, advisors and communicators working together to shape systems that shape our lives, has expanded...

04/17/2024

Research shows that the labor support a birth doula can provide benefits the pregnant patient and the baby.

The Birth Partners Doula project matches pregnant patients with doulas. Learn more about doulas and how their support benefits pregnant people and babies.

11/12/2023

Wow! This is huge news! In January, Medicaid users will be able to have doula services reimbursed up to $1325 in Upstate NY!
Stay tuned as we make sure we do what we need to on our end to make this possible to increase accessibility to our services.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — New York is facing a maternal health crisis. A measure to help address the alarming infant and maternal mortality rate in the Empire State is now law. Monday afternoo…

07/15/2023

Self-Care & Parenting Workshop: Thursday, July 27, 6:00-7:30 PM

Arden Simon, Services Navigator of The Family Opportunity Center (FOC) at Delaware Opportunities Inc. will be at the library to present a workshop for parents and caregivers on self-care and how this practice builds upon their parenting strengths. The event is open to all parents and caretakers of children in Delaware County. Active FOC clients are encouraged to attend. Children are welcome, as the presentation will take place in the library's play space. Refreshments will be provided.

03/07/2023

“I Won’t Hold Your Baby

…unless you ask me to, in which case, I will snuggle and cuddle your baby as much as you want me to.

I never ask my clients if I can hold their baby. In fact, I rarely ever touch my client’s baby if I can help it. Sounds sort of like the opposite of what you might picture of a doula, right? We must all be birth crazy, baby obsessed women who just want to cover babies in kisses and love and get an emotional high from attending births?

Not this doula.

I LOVE attending births. Call me crazy, but getting those middle of the night calls is one of my favorite parts of this job. I get to listen to someone at their most vulnerable times - the excitement, the hesitation, the nervousness of the unknown. Being able to provide some comfort, reassurance and continuity of care to the people I work with is so important to me (and them!)

Rushing off in the night, quietly getting myself ready, getting in the car and heading off to their home or hospital makes me feel like I’m on a secret birth mission that nobody around me knows about. When I arrive I fall as seamlessly as I can into the rhythm of the birth and start supporting my clients in whatever way they need most.

When the baby arrives I step aside and leave room for the new parents to discover their baby. I try and grab some photos (I’m not a birth photographer though, so keep your expectations in check!) and then I only step in if my client needs me for some reason.

Why does that matter? Why won’t I ask to hold your baby? Simply because: they are yours, not mine. I want you to be able to hold your baby as close as you want, for as long as you want without anyone interrupting that time. There will be enough people coming along in the next few hours and weeks who need to take that baby out of your arms for whatever reason, and tons of friends and family who will offer help by “holding the baby”.

Instead, I want to hold you, whether that’s in my arms, in my heart or my thoughts. By supporting and “holding” you, I don’t need to hold your baby. But if you ask me to, I would LOVE to.”

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09/09/2022

Queen Elizabeth after her fourth Homebirth

Her Majesty was the first royal woman to have her husband accompany her at childbirth when she welcomed her fourth child Prince Edward with Prince Philip present.
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"The Queen, by then aged 37, had asked him to be there; she'd been keenly reading women's magazines that stressed the importance of involving fathers in childbirth and had become fascinated by the idea. Thus Philip became the first royal father in modern history to witness the birth of his child.”
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Like her mother, the Queen gave birth to her first child, Prince Charles, at home via caesarean, after a 30 hour labor, but went on to have three VBACs although with scopolamine.
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Eventually Charles was born by a Caesarean section in a music room in Buckingham Palace which had been converted into a theatre. She was attended by Obstetricians Sir William Gilliatt and Sir John Peel, and also midwife Helen Rowe, who was thought to be present for all the births. Caesarean sections were also less common in the general public at that time; in the 1950s only around 3% were caesarean section. It would have been of some concern that the Queen required one.
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The midwife Helen Rowe was known to be present as letters written to her by the Queen were discovered after her death. There is an irony in this as, in 1970, Sir John Peel, the queen’s obstetrician, was lead author of the report “Domiciliary midwifery and maternity bed needs”, which recommended 100% of births should be in a hospital.
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There have been considerable changes that have taken place in maternity services since the births of the Queen’s children. The accessibility of research and information is only one thing! The Queen, in all her experiences as a woman and mother in the role, has paved the way for royal births to be different and opened the door for many of her subjects to challenge the status quo at the time. The importance of looking back in history to see how we have got to where we are should not be overlooked and I challenge others to investigate history of our profession over the past 70 years.
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