Midwifery Wisdom Collective

I remember the power! What do you remember?

New episodes of Don’t Listen To Us (our advice podcast) every week! On our show we take your questions, ponder your experiences and sometimes just talk about whatever comes to mind! You can listen to the whole boomtooty wherever you find podcasts or watch on our YouTube. Link in bio. New episodes every Wednesday with Lemonada Media

Link in bio to write into the show or call in as well. Tell us what you are going through or thinking about and we’ll think about it with you.

Thanks to Lemonada Media for hosting us and our great team for making this with us: Katrina Onstad, Debbie Pacheco, Welterweight Sound Bellows Media



Reshare Mandy Patinkin & Kathryn Grody & sometimes Gideon

So many of us have been taught that the goal is to feel calm. To not be triggered. To hold it together.

But here’s what nervous system science actually tells us: if there’s no activation, your nervous system isn’t working. The goal was never to eliminate activation. It was always to move through it — fluidly, accountably, and with support.

This is the kind of education that doesn’t fit inside a textbook or a clinical rotation. It lives in community, in conversation, in the work of becoming not just a skilled midwife, but a sustainable one.

And it’s just one piece of what we cover inside the Midwifery Wisdom Fellowship — alongside building a financially viable practice, claiming your professional identity, navigating preceptor dynamics, and creating a career that actually sustains you.

Cohort 2 Applications open this month.

Comment FELLOWSHIP and get the Early Bird Tickets today! 🌿

Here’s something that might change the way you listen in labor.

Baseline doesn’t need to be reestablished every two hours. It needs to be reestablished when something changes.

The clock doesn’t tell you when to reestablish. The baby does.

This is the kind of thinking we work through in the FHT Lab on June 27.

📅 June 27 | 7–9 PM EST | Early bird last chance - $89

📚 Bundle with the 4-CEU course for $199 (reg. $275)

Comment FHTLAB to register today!

Why did 17th-century men have these tiny pregnant dolls?!



Reshare

I would like to see AI try.

I’d like to see AI suture a second-degree tear by the light of a bedside lamp. Resolve a shoulder dystocia in the middle of the night. Hold a trembling mother’s hand when fear creeps in. Pray over a family. Offer reassurance when things don’t go according to plan. Celebrate alongside parents as they meet their baby for the very first time.

Birth work is more than information. It’s presence. It’s intuition. It’s skill. It’s human connection.

Our job is safe.

No matter the advances in modern technology, there will always be families who will seek out this kind of love, care, and attention as they bring their babies into the world. No technology can replace the comfort of a trusted hand, a calm voice, and someone who is fully present in life’s most sacred moments. 🤍

Reshare Home Birth Midwife | Spokane & CDA

What’s the damage? 😜

Urzila — Stream now on ABC iview.



Reshare ABCQueer

Gender, Birth, childbearing and patriarchy.
You’ll learn a lot in college


Reshare Murphy Roscher

comment “portal” if you’re ready to switch the channel back on and I’ll send the free portal practice to your DMs to train fascia and breath to hold that ancestral frequency when the rest of the room forgets it exists…



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Reshare karissa | creator of WaveWork birthing