Midwife Musings
This is a sacred space woven with wisdom, story, and the quiet power of the feminine. Created by a midwife and keeper of life’s deepest mysteries, this blog is a gathering place for those drawn to the rhythms of birth, blood, breath, and becoming. Here you’ll find reflections, teachings, and timeless truths offered in devotion to the cycles that shape us. Come as you are. Stay as long as you need.
Journal Prompts for Your VBAC Journey
Journal Prompts for Your VBAC Journey
Preparing for a VBAC can stir up a wide range of feelings—hope, excitement, fear, uncertainty, and deep desire. Journaling is a beautiful way to make space for all of those emotions, connect with your body, and cultivate trust in your journey. These prompts are meant to guide you inward, helping you process, release, and reclaim your birth story as you prepare for what’s ahead.
Reflecting on the Past
What feelings surface when I think about my previous birth experience?
What part of that story still feels tender, and what part feels empowering?
What would I like to release from my last birth?
Connecting to Your Body
How does my body feel when I imagine birthing vaginally?
What are three ways I can honor and care for my body during this pregnancy?
What messages does my womb or belly hold for me today?
Cultivating Trust & Strength
What does trust in my body look like, feel like, sound like?
Who or what reminds me of my strength?
Write a love letter to yourself, affirming your ability to birth.
Envisioning Your VBAC
Close your eyes and imagine your VBAC unfolding. What do you see, hear, feel?
Who do I want present in my birth space, and why?
If my birth could be a sacred story, how would I tell it?
Integration & Intention
What lessons from my past birth are guiding me now?
How do I want to feel as I step into labor this time?
What does a healed, whole birth story mean to me?
These prompts aren’t about finding “perfect” answers, they’re an invitation to sit with your truth, to listen to your body, and to honor the fullness of your journey. May your journaling be a companion on your path toward a birth that feels deeply yours.
10 Things I Know With My Entire Being (After 15 Years as a Midwife)
Birth is not a medical event. It is Holy ground. I can feel in my own body the veil thin place where life and death hold hands.
The cervix is not a stop watch. Time bends. Progress is not linear. Slow is sacred too. Patience is vital.
You can’t coach a woman into power. You witness it. You get out of the way and honor her knowing. Trust she will find it.
There is no such thing as “just” a homebirth. The walls have seen prayers, primal screams, orgasms, and resurrections.
The body remembers how to open. Even when the mind is afraid. Even when the culture forgets.
Softness is strength. The bravest thing I will ever see is a woman who softens into the wild rhythm of birth moving through her.
We need less management and more reverence. Less control. More awe. Less protocol. More presence. Less ego. More kneeling as students at the feet of the forces.
Not all emergencies come with sirens. Trust your skills. Read body and energy of womb and room. Listen with your bones.
Birth is erotic. It’s messy and raw and it’s also sensual, sovereign, and fiercely alive.
We don’t deliver babies. We serve women We protect the portal. We remember what the world tries to forget. From the knowing in our bodies, we offer healing and wisdom to the heart of our community.
Loyalty to the Process of Birth.
Loyalty to the Process of Birth
Patiently waiting.
Waiting on a baby for over 24 hours as a midwife is remaining unmoved.
It is trusting that the right actions will arise by themselves.
Trusting that there is a story being revealed.
Trusting in the process and the Fates.
No interruptions of the unfolding!
Maybe the right word isn’t patience then.
Maybe its loyalty.
Patience is waiting for the settling mud to reveal the clearness of water.
It is waiting for something better to happen.
Loyalty is a love and dedication to what you care about.
Loyalty to the process.
Loyalty to the time constructed by the Fates.
Loyalty to that ripening and baring of the fruit, not just the fruit.
Loyalty to the dedication to seeing it through before it’s plucked too soon.
We all know plucking a piece of fruit before it’s time leaves marks on the fruit bearer and blemishes on the fruit.
Birth is like this.
So similar to the fruit trees.
Many things are like this actually.