Beautiful Things Midwifery and Lactation

Save the date for our 2nd Annual Nest Fest! August 1, at the Hound’s Rest in downtown Champaign, we’ll be raising funds to continue our mission of helping NICU families in our community. Watch for ticket sales coming soon!

Check out this free resource for labor prep 💗

This is a huge moment for birth access in Illinois.

✨Beautiful Things Midwifery & Lactation is now able to provide Medicaid-covered home birth services for eligible Illinois families.✨

For years, many families seeking physiologic, personalized maternity care have had to pay out of pocket for home birth services. Expanding Medicaid access helps move birth options toward greater equity and autonomy for families across our region.

We’re honored to be part of this change.

If you are pregnant and covered by Illinois Medicaid, you may now qualify for covered home birth care with our practice.

Accepting clients with due dates in October and beyond. Reach out to learn more about eligibility, timelines, and availability.

Beef is one of the best sources of needed nutrition in pregnancy!

Every important macro and micronutrient needed is present in beef, except folate and vitamin c, which you need from other sources
Cheeseburgers and steaks are pregnancy super foods 🍖🍔 Did you know this??!

We ❤️ moms 😘

As midwives, it is a privilege to witness the strength, vulnerability, intuition, and transformation that surround pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and family life. We are continually humbled by the trust families place in us during some of life’s most profound moments.

Sending gentleness and care today to all who are celebrating, remembering, missing, mothering, or being mothered.

With love,
Illinois Council of Certified Professional Midwives

A 2023 "Expert Review” article was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The authors present the case:

"...fully integrating the midwifery model of care in philosophically aligned healthcare teams and institutions is a key strategy for addressing healthcare disparities and the maternity care crisis in the United States. Expanding the midwifery model of care would align the United States with peer nations that consistently demonstrate maternal and neonatal outcomes that are significantly better than those found in the United States."

The authors cite the approach to midwifery that is standard in other countries, especially in wealthy European nations, where women have as much as seven times the access to midwives that they do in the United States. They report that midwifery care has improved outcomes by 56 different measures — including lower morbidity and mortality among mothers and newborns, fewer preterm births and low birthweight infants, and reduced interventions in labor.

Source: Combellick, JL, Telfer, ML, et al. Midwifery care during labor and birth in the United States. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Source: Forman, R. Midwifery Review: Adding Care by Midwives Improves Birth Outcomes. Yale School of Medicine.

Celebrating International Day of the Midwife, and thinking of all of the midwives who have impacted me and led the way in this wild calling.

Thank you for what you do- the hands you hold, the families you educate, and your commitment to women-centered care.

Tag a midwife you love below!

Illinois Council of Certified Professional Midwives (ICCPM) is our statewide organization that promotes midwifery. We are so thankful for the work they have done over the years to help create a reality where every family has a midwife 💜

In honor of International Day of the Midwife on May 5, ICCPM is collecting short stories about what midwifery care has meant to people. If you’d like to share a sentence or two, we’d love to include your voice 💛

Submit here:
https://forms.gle/JLGxCSCcTMCWCU3G8

We think that moms deserve it all and especially on Mother's Day! What better way to celebrate than a beautiful photo with your children?

THIS Saturday, May 2nd from 10:00am -1:00pm at Mad Goat Coffee South Danville Birth Project is hosting a beautiful afternoon filled with love, connection, and fun:

✨ FREE professional mini photoshoot
☕️ ½ off coffee for moms
🎨 Mother’s Day crafts for kids

Sessions are limited and available on a first come, first served basis so come early!

All proceeds support the Danville Birth Project 🤍

Tag a mama who deserves this 👇

💐Celebrate Mother’s Day with the Danville Birth Project at our 3rd Annual Mother’s Day Event

May 2nd | 10 AM – 1 PM
📍 Mad Goat South

Enjoy a free mini photo session with your family and a few sweet activities for the kids while you’re there.

More details coming soon… we can’t wait to celebrate you. ✨