Friends, I thought you might enjoy another of Serena Salvato’s podcasts, this time with one of my clients, Amye Olivero, sharing her moving story! Click here to listen in! The Push Guide, by Serena Salvato. And be sure to visit and subscribe to Serena’s website, The Push Guide to hear her other interviews and to read an account[…]
I yawned and stretched. I’d gone to bed too late the night before – thirsty to soak up every last drop of time I could with my daughter and my granddaughters – but I’d still managed to rise early enough to start out on my twenty-two hour drive at a decent time. My girls were yet asleep,[…]
It’s an interview with me! Several weeks ago I was contacted by Serena Salvato, a young wife, mother, doctor of microbiology, and the founder of a new podcast called The Push Guide. Serena explained to me that when she moved to the United States from England, she was grieved to discover what a remarkably few[…]
A young woman passionate about homebirth, Shantel Silbernagel, contacted me nine months ago to tell me about a project she was working on and to ask if I could provide a bit of help. Her desire was to present the world with a book of stories about birthing at home. A collection of stories that[…]
So, here I am in Michigan, enjoying my children and my grandchildren and the opportunity to help Hannah, my midwife daughter, with a handful of her clients. Among those I’ve had the pleasure to meet is Sabrina, a mother of two boys, one very newly born. As we sat and talked and admired the baby,[…]
“There’s a sacredness in tears. They aren’t the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They’re the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” Washington Irving So many good things are happening! As you know, my book is safely in my publisher’s hands. I[…]
Hello, friends! As usual, thanks to having been blessed with a husband who has summers off, we spent most of this summertime away, roaming the wilds of North America. We had an amazing time – as usual, but – as usual – I was sad to have to turn mothers due to birth in the summertime away.[…]
Good morning, Friends! I recently made a new friend via social media, Thais Derich, author of the newly released memoir, Second Chance: A Mother’s Quest for a Natural Birth after a Cesarean. I ordered Thais book and devoured it in a day, shedding tears as I was caught up into the moving story of both her first[…]
Here’s my last story about my time in Haiti. Though I’m working furiously on my manuscript revisions, I wanted to be faithful to share about the time I spent there in full. The mamas, the babies, the midwives, the work is worth it. Plus, you all are worth it, too – you were so generous[…]
And so the woman I wrote of last week, that desperately silent, utterly vulnerable soul and tiny son, even as she departed the premises, stowed herself away in my heart as I was caught up into the stream of women that flowed through my stay at MamaBaby. Only a few hours after we’d tended to and erased the traces of that[…]