Our little boy was born on June 4th, 2008 at 11:02am. I first started feeling irregular contractions on Sunday, June 1st around 1:45 pm. These irregular contractions lasted the rest of that afternoon and all of the next day, but would stop and start, and weren’t really getting intense at all; just annoying… Finally, around […]

One day I was working on a flyer for my holistic birth and wellness services. I was googling images of pregnant bellies when my 5 year old daughter came over to see what I was up to. She stood next to me and quietly watched as I experimented with different images, until I stumbled upon […]

(This is my story. It’s taken from my blog, mybumpandgrind.blogspot.com, which chronicled my pregnancy in the Netherlands, where home birth is the norm.) There are few absolutes when it comes to labor. There’s no way to know just when it will start, how long it will last, or how it will feel. But one thing […]

March is almost over… it’s been a long and short month at the same time. Lots of birthy stuff went on, and I wanted to note some really cool things that I either learned or was reminded of or just got plain old proof about. Sharing them here, whether you are mama or midwife or […]

Name: Kristi Zittle Website: www.hisgraceherbals.com www.hisgraceherbalssharesjuiceplus.com How would you describe yourself: mother, birth activist, AAMI Midwifery SkillsLab Instructor; Trust Birth Conference Coordinator 1. What change(s) do you want to see in birth? For our families to recognize that birth is a physiological process, not a medical event. And to understand that mothers and babies rights […]

After a disappointing first birth at the hospital, I knew I wanted to have my second at home. I recruited two amazing midwives once I got the green light that I was low-risk. The pregnancy was great, and by the time I was 36 weeks, the baby was basically hanging out of my pelvis. However, […]


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Let’s start on Friday, December 3rd, shall we? 

Kim, my good friend and fantastically talented midwife was flying in from Vegas on Friday. I knew when we moved to Utah that I *could* find a great midwife here, but I didn’t want to. Plain and simple. Kim knows me, she knows my family, she knows my […]

Not all doulas are the same. True. Just like all birthing mothers are not the same. Most people outside of family in our lives are there because we have chosen to share our special moment with them. We tend to migrate towards people with the same interests or beliefs. Not everyone is going to be […]