Local Care Midwifery Blog
A blog created to share information from Local Care Midwifery, PLLC with women and families of New York’s Capital District and beyond.
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Michelle’s Down and Dirty Childbirth Ed Tips
The title says it all: Michelle's Down & Dirty Childbirth Ed Tips (aka All You Need to Know for Life)
Chevre Printemps
Sometimes, I just want to eat a baked potato with butter, sour cream and chives. And living with a cow dairy allergy, well that is a bad idea*. But sometimes a craving demands to be heeded. That is what happened for the creation of this recipe. I want a baked potato with butter, sour cream...
Just Midwifery
Recently, someone asked on Facebook if I did “just midwifery or also OB-GYN?” At first I was taken aback: putting the word ‘just’ in front of anything sounds belittling. But I quickly got over myself and realized that she was simply asking a question. What a great question! Do I do just midwifery? Maybe… In...
Black Maternal Health Week 2018
On Tuesday, I took part in a press conference at the NYS Assembly highlighting Black Maternal Health Week, maternal mortality, a racial disparity in health outcomes. Spending time in the Capital with cameras and reporters and legislators puts me way out of my comfort zone but I put on my best face (and some lipstick)...
Food Photos
If you have ever scrolled through my Facebook or Instagram pages, you have seen pictures of my meals. A lot of pictures of my meals. In particular, you will have seen a lot of photos of my husband eating food I have prepared. Several friends have taken to referring to Kevin not as my husband...
Jobs I have had
Like most people that I know, I have had a variety of jobs over the years. Quite a variety. Listing them in one place makes me realize that I have done a lot of things, in a lot of places with a lot of different people.
The mess of home birth
“Home birth? I wouldn’t have a home birth because of the mess. Yuck!” For years, decades really, I have heard similar comments. In the early 1980’s, when I first heard statements like this, I was confused: I had seen of lot of planned home births and they weren’t particularly messy. (But, toddlers eating spaghetti? Now...
Touch
Touch, it is our earliest and our most communal sense. Whether we are a floating embryo, a tumbling toddler or a middle aged midwife, we all sense touch. Even if we are blind, or deaf, or deprived of the sense of smell or taste, we still know touch. From Bali to Bahrain, touch is both...
Birth Stories
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Welcome to the World!
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