I am teaching our Writing Class for the first quarter of the Indie Birth Midwifery School! While most of the 10 weeks is being spent on strengthening their more academic writing, we started the quarter off with more creative writing assignments. Here are a few of the poems that students submitted as assignments. I asked […]

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This birth story was written and shared by Hannah Juul-Borre. “I’m coming Momma I’ll see you soon; I know just how, I’ll follow the moon, and the stars will be my guide tonight, as I find my way to you.” During the last few weeks I was pregnant, I thought you would be coming with […]

In this episode of Taking Back Birth, I talk about how to keep hospital rituals out of your homebirth. Download this podcast transcript  

In this episode of Taking Back Birth, Maryn talks about how your uterus “practices” for birth! Download this podcasts PDF transcript In this podcast Maryn discusses how and when the uterus warms up for birth, the fear around these practice contractions, the variation in women’s experiences, what you can do for comfort and prevention if […]

In this episode of Taking Back Birth, I talk what’s in a midwife’s birth bag and why Download this podcasts PDF transcript

In this episode of Well, Actually… Margo interviews Jena la Flamme about instinctual eating in pregnancy, getting in tune with your “female animal” and other sexy stuff! Jena has devoted her life to showing women around the world how to be in tune with the innate wisdom of their bodies and how they too can […]

Fear is the most powerful torture of all. -Lisa Lister, Witch This blog post is in support and solidarity of Lisa Barrett; a mentor and friend who is being persecuted in Australia for supporting women in birth. Lisa is/was one of the most genuine, humble and brilliant women I have ever met. I want her […]