Normalizing Breastfeeding or Breastfeeding Problems?
This week, a new commercial by Frida Mom hit the airwaves during the Golden Globes. This ad is being applauded for normalizing breastfeeding. It certainly shows a real, raw glimpse of those early days...
3 Mar 202132min
Community Birth and Cultural Norms
Despite the increased popularity of community birth (which includes home and birth center births), it still represents a very small minority of births in the US. In this episode we discuss a number of...
24 Feb 202130min
Practical Advice for Midwifery Practice: Naming Your Birth Business
While we all have personal preferences and opinions, this week Gina and Nedra share some of the considerations they've taken into account as they've named their businesses in the past. From cliches to...
18 Feb 202127min
Finding Support During COVID
Being well supported during pregnancy and postpartum is hard enough during normal times. But getting the support you need to feel confident and connected during COVID has been beyond difficult. In thi...
10 Feb 202123min
Statistics from Year One
In this week's podcast we review our practice statistics for our first year of practice (plus the only four births from 2019). We cover everything from number of clients in care to specific outcomes i...
3 Feb 202123min
Practical Advice for Midwifery Practice: Managing Your Client Load
One thing we didn't mention in the podcast was that even if you schedule one person's due date each week, there is no way to predict when people will deliver (with a 5 week window of "full term"), and...
26 Jan 202126min
Midwives in the Media
After the recent release of the Netflix movie, "Pieces of a Woman," Gina and Nedra decided we simply had to watch it and discuss on Mod Midwives. Whenever a loss in a home birth is portrayed, we are a...
19 Jan 202148min
Ask the Midwives-Part 7
We're back with Ask the Midwives! This week we tackle some of your questions, including: *Where to should we up the birth tub? *Is there any danger of the birth tub falling through the floor? *Should ...
12 Jan 202138min
