I Can't Afford a Homebirth and Other Money Issues

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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

Taking Back Birth

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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Wowee wow wow I have gotten to talk so some cool people lately on the podcast. This week I have Mel from the Great Birth Rebellion Podcast on and we really get into some good stuff. I invited her on after I saw the clip that the birth world was resharing like crazy, where some […]

Inside the Great Birth Rebellion with Dr. Melanie Jackson

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Today I have spent a lot of time in personal reflection about what the midwifery path BEHIND me has looked like and what the path ahead might have in store for me. This is partly because we are smack in the final days before a new cohort of midwifery school students begins, and with that, […]

What Might Happen If You Choose the Midwifery Path

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I was so blessed to record this conversation with Hannah Penaluna that was a long time coming! She is an experienced midwife who moved from state controlled midwifery landscape of Australia to the wild west (ok she is in the south but still) of Georgia, an unregulated state in the U.S. The episode delves into […]

From Australia to the US: Hannah Penaluna on Navigating Midwifery Autonomy and Regulation

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This episode is SO MUCH FUN. I have really enjoyed stepping out of the normal birth circles and talking about birth with “non-birthy” people lately. The same old conversations are tiring and frankly boring. So this episode is an interview Jake and I did on Mother’s Day for the spiritual community called Aldea that I […]

The Mystery of Birth: An interview with Margo & Jake Haber

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Some updates here first and then a ramble about considering what your soul desires for birth rather than your ego or mind. Take a listen and see if you can feel for yourself what I am talking about.

Your Birth Desire

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In this episode of Midwifery for the People, I’m sharing a recording of an interview where Kristen Nagle of the Reclaiming Birth Conference asked me about my journey into radical midwifery! Different things come out when different people ask me questions, so this was a lot of fun 🙂 I chat about my background in […]

Reclaiming Birth: An Interview with Kristen Nagle of the Reclaiming Birth Conference

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In this episode of Midwifery for the People I have a quick chat with doula Elisha Anderson about her experience trying to accept state medical care funds for her doula services in Oregon. She had reached out to me about midwifery school and shared a little about her experience, and I invited to come on […]

Mixing Doulas and Insurance: One Woman’s Take

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