Beyond Birth: 4 Beautiful Ways to Honor Your Placenta
Choosing a homebirth allows you to decide exactly what happens to your baby’s placenta. Rather than treating it as medical waste, many families use this incredible organ to celebrate their birth story, ease postpartum recovery, or give back to the earth. Here are four...
Choosing Your Midwife: Interview Questions and What “Out-of-Hospital” Care Really Looks Like
Choosing a midwife is one of the most important decisions you will make during your pregnancy. Unlike a standard 10-minute hospital checkup, out-of-hospital midwifery care is built on deep relationship-building, mutual trust, and shared decision-making. Here is...
Riding the Waves: Your Guide to Managing Labor Pain Without an Epidural
Choosing a home birth means you are stepping into a profound partnership with your body. Without the option of an epidural, it is completely normal to wonder: How will I handle the intensity? The secret to managing labor pain naturally isn’t about being...
Home Birth or Birth Center – What’s the Big Difference?
I’m often asked what’s the difference between a homebirth or birth center? Before we begin, I’d like to explain the difference between “in hospital” and “out of hospital” birth. In hospital, is just that…in a hospital. “Out of hospital” is birth that takes place...
Amethyst’s Birth Story – Guest Blog
A guest blogger recounts the story of her second birth – a water birth at home.
