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The first miscarriage I experienced was over 12 years ago, in between my 5th baby Belgium and before I got pregnant with True. I never really thought it would happen to me, and even as a midwife I felt really unprepared. I remember seeing the first wipe of blood (I was just about 5 weeks […]

My First Miscarriage

Miscarriage and Loss

My 15 year old son takes a prenatal “vitamin”. I put that in quotes, because it’s not a lab made vitamin full of filler (most of them are BTW, even the expensive “healthy” ones), but real food. I wouldn’t put anything else in my kids’ bodies besides real food in one form or another. Since […]

My 15 Year Old Son Takes a Prenatal

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I start this podcast with a mini-rant on blame and shame and miscarriage and why I think we need to shift this old paradigm and way of thinking. It’s literally everywhere; in the foods we’re told we shouldn’t eat to the air we breathe to the studies that say…this causes miscarriage. I am feeling this […]

Why My Kids Don’t Go to Doctors

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Midwifery is unsustainable. I have heard this statement coming from the mouths of experienced midwives; whether I am just hearing it, or whether people have been saying this for a while, I don’t know. I totally agree. Midwifery as it’s being done by most women is unsustainable. It’s a dying profession, this weird half medical-half […]

Midwifery Is Unsustainable

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I really wanted to WRITE my miscarriage story. As in, full on describe it, feel it, and see my lessons on paper. And also to feel as if I have paid my honor to this Soul that came and left. But nothing is coming lately when I sit down with this intention. It’s as if […]

Writing My Miscarriage Story

Miscarriage and Loss

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This episode is an interview and chat with Nikko Kennedy, quantum biologist and doula. I love the wisdom she shares here around light and the Sun and all of the reminders to help us get back to what we know. Being human does come with challenges, but it also comes with built in systems to […]

Why Brighter Days and Darker Nights Matter For Your Fertility, Pregnancy and Mothering Journeys

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It’s been exactly a year since we arrived here with the intentions of staying a few months. I never dreamed of all the things and gifts and blessings that we would receive here, yet it’s been an intense year of lessons and upgrades. If you have the dream of doing something equally as crazy with […]

The Lessons of One Year In Hawai’i

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I’m physically and emotionally feeling a little in between worlds right now, so come with me on a journey here through vaginal steaming, and then birth, death and midwifery! I somehow tied it all together here by sharing my current desire for the definition of “midwife”; one who witnesses the initiation, whether that be life […]

A Neither Here Nor There Blab on Birth, Death and Midwifery

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I have so much to share about my recent miscarriage but it felt easiest in some ways to begin by sharing the experience from a midwifery perspective. It really gets me how many women don’t know what a “normal” loss looks or feels like, or are told lies or shoved into the medical system for […]

How I Used Midwifery Knowledge to Navigate My Pregnancy Loss

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