Indie Birth Blog
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Indie Birth is a collective of women committed to disproving this myth. We believe the family and the community should honor birth on every level - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. It's our mission to make sure you have the education and support you need as a mama exploring home birth or as a birth worker supporting mamas on their journey.
Indie Birth Blog
1w ago
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 ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1w ago
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 ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1w ago
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 ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1w ago
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 ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1w ago
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 ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1w ago
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 ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1M ago
In this podcast, Margo and I dream about the new version of “midwife” that we are helping to create in this world and through our Indie Birth Midwifery School. It is truly time for a change; away from the drastic, static versions of what exists and has come before. We are imagining a world where ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1M ago
This podcast was inspired by a student considering working with a mama who’s had a prior cesarean and wanting to birth at home. I realized how much goes into this for me as a midwife, and what helps me understand and fully believe in a mama who I’m supporting after cesarean. I told her that ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
2M ago
In this podcast, I talk about some of the ways that our school is unique and special…plus, she (Indie Birth Midwifery School) is almost 8 years old!!! I share my take on this question of knowing, between stories from my own life and further thoughts for your own inquiry. We are accepting applications and enrolling ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
2M ago
I have been interested in learning about bees; entry level information is where I am at but yet so much of it is actually really “radical”. I have no idea how to actually keep bees, or any of that, at this moment. But I have been learning that there is a way of bee-keeping where ..read more