The Birth of Nesia

A quick birth center birth... I started timing contractions at 6am Sunday morning and stopped recording them at 7pm since they were getting more intense. (I don't know how many times I called Kristy Hammack [...]

By | February 15th, 2017|Categories: Birth Stories As Told by Families, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Favorite Memories

Last night, my daughter was sharing her favorite memories of her family members. Her favorite memory of me was a story about when she was little (around 6) and I was still a student midwife. [...]

By | October 2nd, 2015|Categories: blog|0 Comments

The Birth of Gwenevere

On Sunday, we had spent the day hanging out with a friend while our four and a half-year old son was with his grandmother. My husband (Chris) had gone to get Tristan (our son) from [...]

By | December 9th, 2014|Categories: Birth Stories As Told by Families|0 Comments

The Very Best Thing

To be a midwife is to hear stories. Women come to appointments and they tell me stories about creating their families or growing their families; they tell me their mothers' stories and sisters' stories. I [...]

By | November 19th, 2014|Categories: blog|Tags: , , |0 Comments

The Birth of Joon

Watch the video of this birth here. I went into labor around 3am on Monday morning. I’d had maybe 3 or 4 contractions in the previous 6 hours but nothing very different from what I’d [...]

By | November 10th, 2014|Categories: Birth Stories As Told by Families|0 Comments