Sister Birth Blog

combine the following ingredients in nearly any order. But the first two ingredients must always go in first, as all the others depend upon them.

If you’re new here, you might not know that I was a birth photographer before I was any other thing in the “birth world.” Before that I was a family photojournalist sort of photographer. The raw, unscripted, unposed stories of people’s authentic lives together at home has always captivated me, so it wasn’t too much […]

Here’s a pro tip: Don’t be too hasty to call in your birth team.

We may become too quick to automatically write off midwives with such credentials without considering the whole picture. We have demonized certification and licensure and lost all sense of nuance around the subject.

reexamining our relationship with “need” as freebirthers and self-sufficient homebirthers by Sister Birth

Have you had a labor that felt like it took much longer than it ought to have taken? (I’m raising my hand!) You may have done all the “right” things in pregnancy to set yourself up for quick and efficient labor: Ate the right things, diligently moved your body, did some spinning babies or other […]

Pointers for first time moms planning a home birth.

Have you seen this? This peaceful, unassisted water birth on a porch at the edge of a meadow… the one where the baby received a little assistance from her mother to finish being born? It’s worth watching. And have gratitude for the brave and bold @thealliewoods for livestreaming and sharing her very personal moments with the world. And […]

Over the years, I have shared in a rather raw form about my postpartum journeys, often with the hashtags of #takebackpostpartum or #honestpostpartum. Here below I offer a smattering of those posts about my 3rd postpartum time collected in one blog post, to paint a portrait of the multifaceted adjustments that a mamababy dyad goes […]

Old IG posts chronicaling some of my postpartum journey with my fourth baby, a winter baby.