Student: Elizabeth D My feelings around complex birth are…complex. I’m excited to provide the option ofsupport to women who fall outside of commonly set parameters for homebirth andhave in the past served VBACs, one set of twins, a couple breech babies, and manylong labors and mothers in their forties. I am the only option for […]

Interview by Alisha Meyer It seems our whole industrialized medical system is based on machines. Patients are machines, Practitioners are machines, we use machines on machines. When do we get to the point where we start being treated as humans? Birth left to its own devices will result in death, or without my expertise there […]

interview by Alisha MeyerThis was an interview with apprentice/student midwife Kristen Rud 1. What aspects of being on call may be challenging for me?  For me, navigating my other business and work has been the most challenging part of being on call all the time. Before apprenticeship, I would take birthing clients during certain months […]

My name is Evan Louise Golem. I am a student of midwifery. I am learning through apprenticeship as well as through the Indie Birth Midwifery School (IBMS). I am mother to four amazing children: Lily, Ellis, Ayda- and Zander. I am married to an amazingly supportive, freedom loving man named Eric. Together we live in […]

This is an excerpt from a truly infuriating Facebook thread recently about dogma around which tools midwives “should” carry or not. This was in response to a post about using a simple and inexpensive contraption that can help reduce bleeding in a postpartum hemorrhage – I agree that it is not ok to experiment on […]

A Peek Inside the Life of a New IBMS by Kristen Spears I feel a deep sense of accomplishment as I wrap up this final project for the Intro to Autonomous Midwifery course. I completed this during a time of transformation in my life, while also stepping into my new role as an apprentice. I […]

On Finding an Apprenticeship by Megan Ojeda As an Indie Birth graduate with no intentions of acquiring a license, ever — (do I need  government approval – AKA a “license” – to menstruate or share my skill/education/ experiences in menstruation with other women? no. same thing.) — I was faced with a  built-in challenge of […]

Jaden Graham Jaden Graham is a birth worker serving pregnant women and families in coastal, rural Northern California, a Western folk herbalist, a writer, and forever student in the mysteries and teachings of this infinite abyss. When inspiration moved her brightly during her powerful journey into motherhood, she, influenced by her midwives, Lily and Jami […]