In this episode of “Well, Actually…,” Amy and I talk about how self care has looked and changed over the course of her many pregnancies. We talk about challenges Amy has had, nutrition, sleep, community support, as well as the experience of doing prenatal visits with herself and preparing for unassisted births. Download this podcasts […]

As someone who went from a research heavy semester in an Applied Criminology master’s program to becoming an apprentice midwife, I feel that I have a duty to this crazy birth world to put some research methods information out there. We talk a lot about evidence based care, but it is silly to assume that […]

It seems like the intense focus we at Indie Birth have had on education has started to pay off in a lot of ways locally and in far off lands. Lots of women are more knowledgeable and more confident about birth. Some of them are doing their own prenatal care in lots of different ways. […]

I didn’t write much about my second miscarriage in 2013, a few months after the first miscarriage, and a few months before getting pregnant with my daughter Celosia. Two years later, I still found myself thinking about it, and was looking to see what if any photos I had saved, and came upon one that […]

My baby just turned one and is still exclusively breastfed (has had maybe a total of 4 ounces of my milk from a bottle or sippy cup, though I admit I would likely do this more if she was interested) and co-sleeps with me. I don’t think this is a competition or a “see who […]

I’ve been think a lot lately about the notion of “control” and how it relates to pregnancy and birth. So much of the focus in life in general is on controlling the process, or keeping up the myth that we can control the process, and the time of pregnancy and birth is no exception. In […]

In this episode of “Well, Actually…”, Margo talks all about the cutting of the cord. But Who Cuts The Cord

I was excited when a friend sent me a copy of Microbirth to watch recently. I had seen a preview of it and it was on my list of new birth related documentaries to check out. Most of the information in the film was not super new to me, but I think it was packaged […]