One thing that we feel very strongly about at Metro Midwifery is that physical activity is a critical element for a healthy pregnancy and straightforward birth. So… Read more “Walking in Pregnancy”
Author: Gina
The Importance of Interprofessional Collaboration
Facilitating Smooth Transports Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) is simply when providers of different disciplines work together with the families they serve to offer optimal care. Sounds easy, right?… Read more “The Importance of Interprofessional Collaboration”
Home Birth Prep
Making Your Bed When you think of home birth, you might imagine that it is a pretty messy event. The truth is, if you prepare your birth… Read more “Home Birth Prep”
The Wide Range of Normal
Since it’s World Breastfeeding Week, we wanted to write a post about the wide range of normal with breastfeeding. The photo in the post is of two… Read more “The Wide Range of Normal”
Newborn Screening
Midwives are an important part of the newborn screening system. Several midwives, including Gina, and newborn screening experts collaborated to create two videos for midwives: one is… Read more “Newborn Screening”
Precipitous Labor
“You’re so lucky!” is a common exclamation women who labored quickly often hear. But those who have precipitous–or rapid–labors would often beg to differ. A precipitous labor,… Read more “Precipitous Labor”
Video Resources
In response to a client request, we’ve compiled the following series of videos for pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum. We hope you enjoy! Physiologic Changes During Pregnancy… Read more “Video Resources”
VoyageDenver
We feel so honored to have been interviewed by VoyageDenver! We are so honored and privileged to serve Denver’s home birth community. Though we have both practiced… Read more “VoyageDenver”
Beautiful Quote
In all cultures, the midwife’s place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human… Read more “Beautiful Quote”