The newest edition of Nourish + Thrive is FINALLY finished and available!!! I’m really thrilled with this edition! It’s now nearly 400 pages spanning three parts! Part One includes an excerpt from Homebirth—Safe + Sacred detailing the safety of birthing at home, a chapter describing the care generally provided by homebirth midwives, a complete listing[…]
Mom! I’ve been thinking! Four words I’ve heard more times than I can count… Four words that’ve greeted me at doors, roused me from sleep, disrupted our homeschooling schedule, and interrupted my own train of interesting thoughts… Four of my very favorite words ever ♥♥♥♥ And so Paul’s doing a thing! He’s wrestled a[…]
legacy /ˈleɡəsē/ …the long-lasting affect of a particular set of events, actions, etcetera that occurred in the past, or the impact of a person’s life… …something imparted by or received from someone or something from the past… I recently learned when a midwife attends to a birthing woman whose birth she also attended, it’s called[…]
It’s Sunday afternoon—it’s a granddaughter’s first birthday, my son and his wife’s seventh wedding anniversary, and Father’s Day! I updated this three days later on the first day of summer so I could capture our final spring birth ♥ I’ve held off updating my statistics as I’m sooo close to attending my 700th birth, but[…]
CFT Training in Colorado Springs!
“This therapy follows the flow and needs of the body that is unwinding. It’s gentle and effective for any age, from newborns to the elderly. It’s based around the concept that you always work with the body and never against it.” Betsy Richards, CFT Practitioner
Betsy Richards, our practice’s senior apprentice, recently completed her Craniosacral Fascial Therapy training with the Gillespie Approach! She’s able to work with babies, children, and adults and, as a client of Betsy’s myself, I can say she has a lovely touch and does truly excellent work! Here’s what Betsy has to say about it! Have[…]
Anti-D Explained is the much-anticipated, updated version of Dr. Sara Wickham’s very first book, Anti-D in Midwifery, Panacea or Pandora? The essential issue associated with possessing a blood type absent the rhesus factor (also known as being of a rhesus negative or Rh negative blood type) while carrying and bearing babies is the same issue[…]
Christmas this year was truly so wonderful! Our two oldest children, Hannah and Paul, came all the way from Michigan to Colorado with their families to celebrate with us! As I described in my post, “Watching For, Waiting For, Welcoming the Light,” the unique way we came to observe Advent when the children were little[…]
When my first husband, Brent, and I began to explore the secrets and dreams of our hearts through the burgeoning of our relationship, we discovered, young as we were, we’d both given a lot of thought to the sort of marriage we desired to enjoy and the way we intended to rear our children. From our courtship to[…]
“To everything there’s a season… A time… And the Lord’s made everything beautiful in its time…“ Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11 This season… Since I was of cognitive thought I’ve experienced the span of days from ThanksGiving through Christmas to New Year as a single, wondrous season… A season brimming with the very warmest of memories… A[…]