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Post Election Survival Tool (And why I am making myself a PEST)

It is October 2024 and America is about to elect a new president. Donald Trump (and JD Vance) or Kamala Harris (and Tim Walz), that's the choice. Most but not all Americans are planning to vote in this election. A record number already have voted: mail in and early voting numbers are at a record...

By |October 29th, 2024|Midwifery, Mothering & Me|0 Comments

Michelle Joins The Grow Midwives Team

Announcement: Grow Midwives asked me to join their team and I said YES! I will serve as a Senior Consultant furthering Grow Midwives' work to support midwives and midwifery practices across the US. What a perfect time to join -National Midwifery Week. Thank you Grow Midwives for believing in me -I am thrilled, honored and...

LCM in the Time of Corona: Updated

Local Care Midwifery in the Time of Corona… Update March 25, 2020 Hello Dear Ones, The world has changed so much since I posted the letter below on March 14. As of today, one third of the entire world is ‘locked down’ -movements of people severely restricted to slow the Covid 19 Pandemic. People are...

LCM Turned 10!

August 3, 2009, the doors of Local Care Midwifery opened for business. And we have been working ever since -attending births both at home and hospital, doing prenatal, postpartum and lactation visits, also plenty of gynecologic, mental health and primary care visits. There have been office and home visits galore, Spring and Fall Open...

Let go of expectations

  Let go of expectations Sounds like a title to a self-help book, amirite? I never would have thought that this simple, somewhat overused mantra, would be my driving force throughout my second labor, and ultimately be my guiding light over the next intense 6 weeks that followed. Let me elaborate… Here were my expectations:...

By |July 12th, 2019|Breastfeeding, Home Birth, Midwifery, Parenting|4 Comments
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Welcome to the World!

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Sweet Baby Jack James, welcome! (As always full post and more pics on Local Care Midwifery's website at Welcome to The World. Just press on link.) ... See MoreSee Less
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New excellent research supporting the safety of planned home birth in the US with midwives. Come on ACOG, time to shift your position (link in profile). ... See MoreSee Less
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