As we prepare to leave the Red Rocks of Sedona, I imagine what I will take with me to remember this land. Yes, the visual memory and the photos; but something tangible. Wanting something “useful”, I eye our mama juniper tree in our front yard. I suddenly have a new appreciation for her berries, and […]

After a moving update and a post-vacation summary, I’m back! I’m calling this “part 1” because I know there will be more ideas and a creative plan that come to be eventually as we settle down in our lives and I get back to birth work. As I share, this is the “burn it down” […]

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 being succinct. […]

Kimberly is a certified high performance coach, bestselling writer, health junkie, freedom-lover, wife, momma, and unsinkable optimist. After 24 hours of natural labor and childbirth, and dismissing the camera that was intended to document the event, Kim, feeling like Wonder Woman, gained the powerful truth that fearing life’s contractions keeps you contracted, along with the […]

“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 […]

Join Margo and this 2nd trimester mama who had a postpartum hemorrhage with her first home birth, and is looking for ways to refind her confidence going into her second now. They also talk about hyperemesis gravidarum, the emotional aspects of vomiting, anterior cervical lips, coached pushing, placenta birth, and more. In other words, they […]

Important Links Guide to Radical Midwifery Indie Birth Midwifery School

With 5 children of her own, Francoise ‘ Mamacita’ Souverville, a Certified Childbirth Educator since 1982, began practicing midwifery in 1972, has assisted more than 2000 births in hospital, home, and nature, and created ‘Preparation for Men’ as a means to transform the attitude of birth in the family. After playing a decisive role in […]