LCM’s 9th Birthday!
Today is Local Care Midwifery's 9th birthday and the beginning of our 10th year. Can you believe it? Our doors open 8/3/2009 and the first LCM Baby was born just a few weeks later. Now we are up to 254!
Baby Abigail Grace
Welcome Baby Abigail Grace. Your last week inside your mommy and the two weeks since you've been born have been way too interesting! Dire diagnoses (bilateral pleural effusions, severe hydrops, chylothorax) and even worse prognoses (70-90% chance of imminent death), a high risk delivery at Albany Medical Center (with more than a dozen people scrubbed and waiting in the OR just for you), over a week in the AMC Neonatal Intensive ...
Midwife on vacation 2018
As a midwife in private practice, I am almost always on call. From the time any client is within three weeks of her due date until she births, I am at the ready. That means that I always am within earshot of my phone, my Apple-watch strapped to my wrist, that my gas tank is at least a quarter full, that I do not drink a ...
Baby Sally Joy
Welcome Baby Sally Joy, and what a joy you are! Cute as a button, just a perfect bundle of, well joy. Welcome, Sally. Welcome! Michelle May all babies be born into loving hands
Baby Karla Jean
Welcome Baby Karla Jean. You are a just a picture perfect baby girl. The next Gerber Baby! Welcome, Karla. Welcome! Michelle May all babies be born into loving hands
Beat the Heat? More like Survive the Swelter
Ok folks a big, long, nasty hot spell is arriving as I type. The forecast puts us above 90 degrees every day in the next week. Here are some requests, suggestions and miscellaneous tips to help you survive the swelter. Please, please, please stay hydrated this coming week. Dehydration can lead to all kinds of nasty things ranging from feeling rotten, to preterm labor, to death. ...
BANI Childbirth Classes Offered this Summer
Birth as Nature Intended (BANI) Childbirth Education is offered at LCM this July Classes will start on Thursday July 5 They will continue on Tuesday July 10, Tuesday July 17 and conclude on Tuesday July 24 All classes to be held at Local Care Midwifery, 35 Dearstyne Road, Troy, NY 12180 Class held from 6:00 PM until ~ 8:00 PM $200 for the series (covers birthing person ...
Postpartum Rest and Recovery: My Recipe
Postpartum, the time after birth, is a period of change and integration where rest and recovery are necessary. As a midwife, I work with birthing families to help plan for this period during prenatal care. I also do many postpartum visits with every client, some visits at homes, some at my office, visits at the hospital when needed. Mother and baby are the obvious focus of ...
Baby Henry Logan
Baby Henry Logan, when I was greeted at your labor with a skull and a snake, I should have realized that you would arrive on the Solstice, the longest and most magical day of the year. For your journey earthside there were so many surprises in store: several sunsets, travel to the hospital, a surgical delivery, your first blanket fort in the Recovery Room, and last ...
Chocolate Bites
Here is a recipe for a quick, easy and delicious treat. They are so quick and easy, we made them, froze them, and ate them at LCM Moms & More this week, all while half a dozen moms chatted, four babies nursed, and a gazillion toddlers/preschoolers ran around in circles. Try these. They are yummy!