We were supposed to travel to Michigan for the holidays. Instead, we are moving to Palm Desert, so this Christmas will be surrounded with boxes and big feelings, and we will, hopefully, be moving into our first home on New Year’s Day, which also happens to be Ian’s fifth birthday. I hadn’t been feeling the […]Read Post ›
A doula as photographer. A promised midwife as doula. A promised midwife as new mother (for the fifth time). A mother midwife who guides us all. We were on a tropical island as mama made her own waves, listening to ocean sounds from an iphone with a ceiling fan as the breeze. The birth was […]Read Post ›
He was in a hurry, but was born patient and smiling. So happy this mama got her home birth!
My sixteenth birth. Six hours. Rocky born in the caul (THAT was magic). Mama, papa and baby the most veteran newbies I’ve witnessed. Your love story has inspired me. Thank you for bursting into my life a mere three weeks ago. I’m gonna be stalking you for life.
An honor to attend my fifteenth birth and my third home birth. I’ve never seen Kristi’s husband and daughter so happy, and Kristi was her usual sweet, sweet self. PS: This babe lifted his head, latched by himself, and found his fingers in the first hour of life. And had the longest cord I’ve ever […]Read Post ›
Beautifulest Jamaica gave birth to Bowen James Crist on June 13, 2014. Her husband and mother were once again a dream team (I was lucky enough to attend Jamaica’s first birth with them in 2012). Same hospital, same midwife, same amazing can-do attitude amidst some rough moments. The best shot of the day I can […]Read Post ›
Mama Mandy 