Listen to the second episode of the Birth Warrior Podcast, hosted by Tina Fulton and featuring mama Regina on this episode. Storytelling is a powerful agent of change. We are so excited to be offering a new podcast series of inspiring stories of birth from our Indie Birth Community. Listen in and learn from these…
Emmy’s Story on the Birth Warrior Podcast
Listen to the first episode of the Birth Warrior Podcast, hosted by Tina Fulton and featuring Emmy Kissinger on this episode. Storytelling is a powerful agent of change. We are so excited to be offering a new podcast series of inspiring stories of birth from our Indie Birth Community. Listen in and learn from these…
Kid’s Ask Questions About Midwifery
I talk to groups of high schoolers about midwifery once or twice a year and it is SO MUCH FUN. I am going again next week and their teacher sent me a list of questions they had. I felt inspired to write up my answers to share with them and figured I’d share them with…
The Impact of Social Support on Postnatal Mood Disorder
Guest Post by Sara Philkill I have the pleasure of teaching our Speaking Your Truth: Content Creation for Birth Workers course once a year for the Indie Birth Midwifery School, and I love sharing (with permission!) some of our standout pieces that students create. It is so exciting to see awesome content generated, and to…
Abnormal cord insertions and assessing true risk
A guest post by Jaden Graham I have the pleasure of teaching our Speaking Your Truth: Content Creation for Birth Workers course once a year for the Indie Birth Midwifery School, and I love sharing (with permission!) some of our standout pieces that students create. It is so exciting to see awesome content generated, and…
Episode 17: Actually You Can Observe and Tend Your Own Fertility
On this episode of Well, Actually, Margo talks with Lisa Henrickson-Kack of the Fertility Friday podcast! Fertility Awareness was the way that Margo became interested in women’s health and bodily autonomy, and has the potential to capture the imagination and excitement of a whole new generation of powerful women. Listen in as she and Lisa…
Well, Actually Episode 16 – Talking with Jessie Harrold about the MotherSHIFT, the Two+ Years of Transitioning into New Motherhood
This time I get to sit down with Jessie Harrold and talk about how the shift into motherhood takes way longer than the typical 6 weeks that we think of in our dominant culture. Join us as we explore – how this looks – what this means for us as mothers – how we can…
I’m a Self-Proclaimed Midwife
**I actually wrote this awhile ago and hadn’t gotten around to posting, when this week I was quoted in an article and radio piece on unlicensed midwifery. It is quite clear to me that we will need to tell our own stories, and share our own perspectives. So I was inspired to share this now,…
Spiritual Midwifery Side Eye
**I wrote this back when I was a student midwife. Someone mentioned the book again recently and I recalled that I had wrote this, and decided I should share it publicly so next time someone bring it up I can point them here! I am guessing Ina May has since revised her position on many…
Let Your Birth Spark Joy: The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Birth Vision
I was on Facebook and came across a post where an essential oil company was trying to market one of its gadgets to “KonMari lovers”. This made me laugh, and I thought “how silly to use this craze for click bait!”. 5 seconds later I realized it was genius, and it gave ME what felt…
