Dallas Birth Guide

🎧🎧🎧 Heyyyyy! Welcome back to the podcast! This week's guest is Madison Lavey of madaleigh.com. She walks us through her intuitive decisions, standing her ground, and the most beautiful experience of the birth of her daughter, Temple.

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Intuitive Decisions For A Birth Center Birth with Madison Lavey Madison Lavey is a first time mom who has a passion for health, motherhood, green beauty, and fashion. She is a blogger and influencer who stood up for her choices in childbirth while letting her intuition guide her to her best birth.

There is no wrong way to become a mother 💚

Via Genesis Birth Co.

"I feel like I cheated" one new mom said to me as she was holding her newborn in her arms. She had opted for the epidural during labor after she had planned for a drug free birth. My heart broke for her because that's not at all how I saw it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I saw her throughout her pregnancy as she grew and struggled more and more to do everyday things. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I saw the growing pains she had as her baby got bigger and her belly expanded. ⠀⠀⠀
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I saw her exhausted toward the end because no position was comfortable. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

I saw her prepare by reading, practicing, and taking every class that was offered.

I saw her walking, bouncing, and doing anything possible to speed up her labor.⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I saw her push her baby into her loving arms. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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That doesn't sound like cheating to me.

Resharing this incredible birth story in podcast form! BreAnn was so kind to share her birth story with us last year on the blog - and now we have her back on the podast!

Henry and Thea both made an quite an entrance earthside!

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Grapevine Birthing Center
Aly Renee Birth Photography

Henry and Thea - A Twin Birth Story - Dallas Birth Guide Henry and Thea – A Twin Birth Story Henry and Thea – A Twin Birth Story     00:00 / 39:53   1X   Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher Twin babies born at Grapevine Birth Center with midwife Kim Daly and doula Kelly Martin of The Witty Womb. All photo credit goes to Aly Renee Birth Photography. Su...

This is amazing! So happy that options around DFW are expanding!

Texas Health + Plano Birthplace

The Plano Birthplace team is pleased to announce that Adrienne McKinney Jones, MSN, RN, CNM and Jeannine Watson Tate MSN, RN, CNM will be working together to offer enhanced services to their clients.

Jeannine is thrilled to announce that in addition to partnering with Adrienne, she also has privileges at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas. Families can now choose to birth at either the birth center or the hospital and continue to receive personalized exceptional continuity of care from their chosen midwife.

more information:
https://www.planobirthplace.com/blog/midwife-birth-center-plano-texas-hospital-birth-center

was a few weeks ago but it is important to continue the conversation about maternal mental health. Push Prenatal & Postpartum Counseling talks with us about prenatal and postpartum anxiety and depression as well as her work with birth workers who may experience second hand trauma during birth.

She gives us great tips on what we can do to give ourselves a little "mental health boost"!

Listen with the link below - or with iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, CastBox, OpenCast!

Prenatal and Postpartum Anxiety, Depression, and Birth Work with Tiffany Wicks - Dallas Birth Guide Prenatal and postpartum anxiety and depression are much more common that many people think. One in five mothers can experience PPA/PPD. The awareness that maternal …

YOU GUYS. This is BFF goals! 😍



📷 Birth Unscripted

It's not every day that best friends go into labor on the same day, at the same birth center, just rooms away. One delivered first and the other came to visit for a few minutes laboring in between... and one of those babies was born en caul. It was epic and we had the privilege of capturing both!

Nitrous Oxide (laughing gas 😂) during labor is a great option for pain relief. You control how much you use it and you don't need to be hooked up to a machine 🙌🏾

Did you use nitrous oxide during your labor?
📷 Kourtnie Walker Scholz

Podcast Day! We are officially moving podcast days to Saturdays so thank you for listening!

This week's guest with Susan Taylor of Taylor Made Midwifery! She talks with us about her incredible birth - every single one of them unique! Her journey with surrogacy, her work with Family Source Consultants and how to find or become a surrogate.

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Surrogacy and Midwifery with Susan Taylor - Dallas Birth Guide If you are a family who has struggled with getting pregnant or are in a same-sex relationship, the conversation of surrogacy may have come up. …

Happy Mother's Day to every kind of mother out there. You are a force of nature to be celebrated and cherished!

“We experience birth so differently from the intimate spaces of our bodies and minds, it feels disingenuous to strike comparisons and place value judgments. Any woman who experiences the vulnerability of carrying a child in her body (or heart) and bringing it earthside is heroic in my estimation. This idea that there is a special medal dangling on the tree for going without meds makes us undervalue ourselves and depreciate the ordeals we have endured. Loss moms, adoptive moms, cesarean birth mothers…We all open. We all tear, somewhere (body, heart, soul). We all both wildly embrace and struggle to embrace these experiences. It all takes courage and that courage is always worth celebrating.” — Rachel Lorena Brown

📷: Kathryn J Birth Stories Womb Centered Doula KPP Lane B Photography Genesis Birth Co. Caroline Carmack Birth Stories CLJ Photography - Frisco Maternity and Newborn Photographer Amanda Raylee Photography Aly Renee Birth Photography

This gorgeous mama is up on the podcast today to tell us about her birth story! She had a home water birth with Barefoot Midwifery (second birth story in a row on the podcast!), Dallas Birth Doulas, and chiro work with Birthfit Dallas and Pro Motion Chiropractic.

She knew that mindset was super important in pregnancy and birth - special shout out to BIRTHFIT for making this a key priority in their education!

BirthFit Mindset and Home Birth with Kelly and Arrow - Dallas Birth Guide Kelli prepared for her birth by strengthening her mindset with BirthFit and BirthFit Dallas. She knew her options and knew she wanted a water birth …

What a beautiful birth! Thank you Belly Birth & Beyond DFW for sharing!

Birth Story on the Podcast!

An incredible journey of infertility and IUIs, acupuncture, and this mama's determination to find all the information that she needed to have the birth she wanted.

Birth Team: Barefoot Midwifery, Dallas Birth Doulas, Uprise Chiropractic, PLLC, Dallas - Fort Worth Fertility Associates

Special shoutout to Doing It At Home for helping to connect us!

Infertility, IUI to Acupunture, and An Empowered Home Birth with Jennifer and Mako - Dallas Birth Guide After a life-changing accident, Jennifer wasn’t sure if she was able to have children. She researched as much as she could to find something that …