A lovely birth in pictures!

Birth Report   Parent’s Names  Patti and Andy Skinner Baby’s name and birthday   Sophia Charles Skinner June 11, 2013 This baby was your     first   baby and your      first        home birth. Address   7182 Crescent Dr. Pentwater MI.   Why did you choose to have your baby at home? I chose to have a home birth because…

A Home Birth Story  Background: Despite living in St. Louis, we had made the decision to have our baby in Michigan during the summer of 2013 before we knew how the remainder of the year was going to play out.  I wanted to have continuous care with one provider the entire pregnancy and know who…

Birth Report Parents Names: Breanna & Andrew Kulikowski Baby’s Name and birthday: Brinley Louise Nov 3, 2014  This baby was your first baby and your first home birth.  Address: 511 E Main Fremont, MI 49412   Why did you choose to have your baby at home? We choose to have our baby at home because…

Something I wrote a couple of years ago after a home VBAC….. Yesterday I was a midwife more than a baby catcher. Some think that the 2 are always the same, but I know that they are not. Most of the time I catch a baby as the mother pushes him out into my hands….

It was an easy labor.  Easy, because I welcomed the ebb and flow of the contractions.  I  thought of how in yoga I breath deeper into each stretch with a long exhale and did this with the peak of each contraction.  I also found counting helped remind me how long I had to put up…

Mitch and Jordyn Anes This was our 2nd baby and our 1st home birth  Fremont, MI 49412                 Early in the week I had been experiencing regular contractions which were not very strong and thought that my water had broken, by the end of the day my contractions had faded and hadn’t had any more gushing of fluid.  Then…