The story that comes below is written by Sarah, a beautiful Indie Birth mama and beloved virtual midwifery client. She is so brave, and smart, and cool, and I just love her so much! I hope you find her words, photos and birth video as inspiring as I do. – Margo …………………… My partner and […]

Hello Birth Friends, Margo here! Let’s talk about radical ways of relating to money and economy. I’ve been learning and thinking a lot about money for a long time, but especially the last few years as my family shifted to me being pretty much the sole income provider. Manifesting, budgeting, self worth, abundance mindset, I’ve […]

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] This is the story of my fourth pregnancy, and second full term birth (you can read my first birth story here or in our book. It is long, not because the labor was long this time, but because how can you condense such an epic experience? That and I am apparently incapable of […]

“My name’s XYZ and I’m from XYZ. I’m really interested in becoming a midwife after being a doula for a few years now but have some questions regarding taking the course here. Would I be able to receive clients here in XYZ? Which countries accept the credentials of this course?” We get emails like this […]

Unpopular opinion of the day. You don’t need permission to be who you are. You don’t need anyone’s blessing. You don’t need approval from us, even if you’re our doula or midwifery student. Just because you have a teacher doesn’t mean that teacher controls your self expression. We are all students. We are all teachers. […]

An edited transcript from one of Margo’s Live Youtube Sessions Talking about Midwifery Skills, Persecution, Licensing, Emotional Work and More! You can watch the video here, or read all the good stuff below. ———— Something that came up during the weekend, last weekend — which honestly comes up every time we do a skills workshop, […]

An hour before birth, I still was not sure this was “it” because I was not experiencing pain. 10 minutes before, I knew she was in position to be born even though I was not pushing at all. All of the sudden, her head emerged in one strong fetal ejection reflex contraction, before I could […]

Interestingly enough, this is a question we get somewhat frequently (sometimes indirectly), and every time we do, it is surprising all over again, because we don’t feel like we hide or separate out our spirituality from our work. Well, we felt like it would be worth finally putting an answer in one place. This is […]