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,’ host Margo Blackstone shares deeply personal experiences exploring her evolving relationship with death, both in her personal life and professional work as a midwife. She reflects on the profound impact of attending a birth where a baby unexpectedly died, which contributed to her first panic attack and ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1w ago
Birth is in our bones. It is in the minerals, the marrow. It is in our skin and our organs. It is in our brains and our blood. Birth is something every cell of our body remembers. We remember being born, and we can recall the births of our grandmothers in felt sensation (and their ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
2w ago
The value of a midwife or doula is in the relationship. Not in the results of a client’s birth experience. Let’s sit with that. RELATIONSHIP vs. OUTCOME. What I offer, what you offer, is YOU. There is no guarantee of anything other than I will show up, authentically. If we are midwives or doulas, the ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
2w ago
What a pleasure to hold space for Alyssa as she shares her intimate journey through the death and birth of her baby in the middle of her last pregnancy. I know you will be inspired by Alyssa’s way of choosing to experience death and live life. You can find Alyssa on Instagram at: @alyssarafidi_ ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
2w ago
“A return to all that is human, sacred and ancient” -Alexandra Kisitu I loved talking to kindred spirit and author Alexandra about her book, “Back to the Womb: Claiming Birth Sovereignty”. I really loved this discussion with such a kick-ass, smart woman who has dug deeper into the culture of home birth here in Hawai’i ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1M ago
What is embodiment? Listen in on some musings around what this is and isn’t; I also share some personal stories around learning to feel in my body, honoring where I am at and following what my body is feeling. I definitely see this as (one of) the missing links in abundant and joyful birth work ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1M ago
Deva is 7 today! Her majorly watched birth video is below for you to watch again and share. Otherwise, I share a short recent story and celebration of my womb in the event that you feel inspired and are led to do something similar. I am being shown more and more that ritual in one ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1M ago
This past week marked 8 years since my son Sable died in my womb and was born 4 months later. I share how I am feeling now, and how this experience has shaped me and changed me in the last bit of time. Then, I share an older podcast with readings from my journal during ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1M ago
Join Margo on this exploratory first part of a series on death and navigating our relationship to it as birth workers. If we want to shift the cultural narrative so that we honor birth as a right of passage, we will also need to reimagine death as a right of passage. The Western medical perspective ..read more
Indie Birth Blog
1M ago
This is an expansion on an email I wrote recently about going through pregnancy and birth alone, SPECIFICALLY from the lens of trauma and safety. This isn’t a commentary on why all women choose “wild pregnancy” or freebirth but is a perspective on choices being made from the bodily sensations of lack of safety. This ..read more