Post about home birthing.
I’ve been surprised and so blessed by the reception A Midwife in Amish Country has received. What started as a merrily trickling stream in January with my enthusiastic launch team has become a river! Every day I hop online to find sweet messages on my pages, on my posts, and in my inboxes and they[…]
The last few weeks I’ve flooded your inbox with this and that heartwarming element of my book in attempt to entice you into purchasing your very own copy. Now my husband tells me it’s time for something a little lighter, so I plan now to regale you with I daresay HIS favorite story from the[…]
“The beauty of midwifery care is that it serves Motherbaby in all circumstances and belief systems. In A Midwife in Amish Country, Kim Osterholzer has written her story of becoming. May it inspire midwives of every persuasion to follow their calling as it comes from the core of who they are, because truly, this is[…]
It’s almost impossible to describe the gift it is to be invited to kneel next to folks as they move through one of life’s most profound moments… as they breathe… as they strain… as they breathe… as they groan… as they wrestle… as they breathe… as they cry out… To lean over steaming pools to bathe sweaty[…]
We haven’t done a Midwife Highlight in a while, but after being moved to tears by this beautiful story, I can say I’m truly honored to have the opportunity to share the tiny but mighty Pam Crowl with you. Pam was one of the first midwives I encountered after I moved to Colorado. We met at a workshop and she[…]
One of the things I love and appreciate most about Dr. Sara Wickham besides her wonderfully warm heart is the way she’s able to probe, deconstruct, decipher, and translate the abstruse data and directives that swirl around the childbearing family and their care providers—empowering us to ask our questions and think things through from a[…]
Welcome to the second half of Steve’s Story. When Steve was through watching the film he describes here, he sat up straight in his seat and said through the lump in his throat and with tear-shined eyes, “What are the chances I’ll be able to attend a birth with you sometime?” I smiled as I[…]
My husband, Steve, has joked for a while now about writing an article for my blog about being “The Midwife’s Husband.” One day recently I said I thought he ought to do it! And he sat down with his computer and some four hours later he’d typed out nearly four thousand words! Four thousand words![…]
I’ve shared birth photographs and films here before, but for those of you who’ve never been served by a homebirth midwife, I thought I’d share a short film that illustrates, in addition to a birth, what our prenatal and postpartum visits look like. May you enjoy this distillation of what we do. We’re celebrating this[…]
But those ten weeks of autumn weren’t spent with my children and grandchildren alone. The time began toward the tail-end of a very dry and dusty summertime. Fairly the moment we crossed the line into Amish country on my first trip down, memories kicked up like the clouds of dust Hannah’s car sent billowing skyward behind[…]