Madrone Midwifery

Welcoming Finn

Kathleen — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:28:37 +0000

Thank You Madrone!
We can’t thank our midwives Olympia and Caroline enough for helping our baby Finn out into the world! We live in
Petrolia and wanted to have our baby in our home so we started looking for midwives who would be willing to do a
rural birth. Through the entire pregnancy they supported our desire to have our baby at home and helped us have a
healthy pregnancy so we could make our desire a reality. For the birth they brought with them incredible labor support
skills and very proficient medical knowledge. We were so confidant in their ability as birth attendants and comfortable
in our own home that it allowed us to open up to the experience and have natural loving birth. They were also able to
provide all of the postpartum care that we needed. Finn didn’t even leave our yurt for the first two weeks of his life.
We can’t imagine what our birth would have been like without them.

In Loving Gratitude

Caroline — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:23:14 +0000

During my first pregnancy, my partner and I knew we wanted a homebirth with the assistance of skilled midwives. Yet we also wanted to broaden our prenatal perspective, so we chose also to receive care at our local clinic. (Parallel care.) At the clinc, we would wait, wait some more, then be checked, tested, analyzed and sent away.

What a difference a little Love and tea can make.

From the moment I stepped into their office, I felt comfortable, empowered and at home. After “shopping around” for midwives, what really struck me as different from the rest, was their unwavering presence.

They were each so nurturing, open, wise, and compassionately curious about how I was processing ALL aspects of my pregnancy. My health, baby’s health, questions I had, home life, nutrition, life choices, partner relationships, sex, and all things concerning birth and postnatal support. My partner and I both LOVED that they consistently checked in with him as well, and he felt supported by them equally.

In the end, due to placenta previa, I had to have a scheduled cesarean birth, followed by a rough and extended healing process. And even though we ended up not needing their assistance during the birth, they stood by us like rocks during our 3 month recovery and were there for me in ways I can’t truly explain. I was primed for postpartum depression, and in many ways felt very down. But I attribute their love, friendship, and unconditional support as the guiding force that helped me steer clear of that.

Hiring them is worth every penny for just pre/post natal care alone. A lovingly supported birth is just a bonus!

Zion

-SarahSita, Joshua and Zion

Welcome Sweet Layla!

Kathleen — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:34:25 +0000

This was Rachel’s second homebirth, but first waterbirth. Rachel was amazing. She was able to receive Layla into her own hands with grace and ease. We were blessed to be witness to such a sacred event.

It's a girl!

Rachel catching her sweet baby Layla!

Bryson and Rachel

Little Miss Talula Now!

Caroline — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:47:08 +0000

Some words of appreciation

Caroline — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:12:28 +0000

To begin, thank you for your guidance, support and care during our pregnancy. The three of you are all amazingly intuitive in your abilities to grasp at a basic level where an expectant parent is coming from with his or her questions and concerns. You all couple this intuitiveness with a professionalism and a thorough-going knowledge of all aspects of pregnancy, birth and post-partem. You view pregnancy and birth as an organic process, and consequently, enable expectant parents to do the same by providing them with a gentle direction that has behind it years of training, first-hand experience, and research that brings in line alternative approaches to medical attention and treatment. Personally, I feel that the three of you guided me and Nicole to a birth experience that was profound, personal and constructive in the sense that it at least allowed me to begin on the long path toward becoming a father to my new-born child. I am truly grateful for the attention and care you showed us, for your patience, and for your ability to maintain a nurturing environment during a home birth with all of the crises, fears and small and large joys that are constantly, literally bursting onto the scene. I thought my job as continuation high school teacher was challenging and rewarding; I had no idea. You three are real-life heroines. You begin the process of providing personal meaning to parents around the birth experience, and set them on as good a path as can be hoped for towards fulfilling their hopes for and responsibilities to their children, and at the same time, reminding them, through your patience and listening and attention, to honor the hopes and dreams of their children. -Pete

Thankyou from the center of our hearts. Birthing has been THE most amazing experience of my life. And now, being a parent. Gavilan is the brightest light in our lives and I remember each day when I look at her the every day miracle of birth and all that is involved in bringing one person into this world…truly mind blowing. Again, thankyou. Lots of love, Nicole, Pete, and Gavilan

A day at the beach for baby Kona!

heather — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:59:56 +0000

It’s great to see Ben and Melanie with their growing son, Kona, having fun at the beach.

Announcing Nadya!

heather — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:54:07 +0000

Nadya was born at home to Tara and Aaron on April 23, 2009 and weighed 6lbs13oz. Now, at 5 months old she is nearly 17 pounds of pure love and joy!

Welcome Eli Cove!

heather — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:43:15 +0000

Eli Cove was born at home to Jodi and Josh on July 30, 2009 at 9:31am weighing 7lbs1oz. Eli was also welcomed by his big brother Ben who shares Eli’s birthday! Ben was born July 30, 2007.

Happy Birthday Nallia!

heather — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:32:28 +0000

Madrone Midwifery is happy to announce the first birth to be featured on our New Baby Blog! The following excerpt is written by Kit Meyer, who gave birth to Nalllia on June 22, 2009. Congratulations!

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What a day! Happy Birthday Nallia!

By Kit Meyer

http://www.drewmeyer.com/gallery2/v/NalliaMeyer/thebirthday/

“Here we are. Just 24 hours ago we were calling the midwives to come. After a day or so of on and off contractions things really got going around 10pm last night, one of our lovely midwives got to the house about 10:45. I labored in the birth tub and the shower for just a short time. My water broke at 1am and here she came at 1:18am.

“Drew caught her and as you can see from some of the photos she was happy and wide eyed from the start. We woke Bryson up shortly afterward and he was very happy to see a new sister. He had tons of fun roaming the house in the early morning getting away with just about anything while I was cleaned up and Nallia was checked over.

“After all calmed down about 5am, we got just a few hours of sleep and B was off to school. Drew checked-in at work and we made a few phone calls. This afternoon was filled with super helpful visits from Brooke and the boys, Jamie and Debbie. Now Bryson is fast asleep and poor Drew has worked his tail off all night and day to help me and care for Bryson, he has even managed to get pictures ready to upload!

“So we are off to bed our first night as parent of two! A crazy boy and sweet little girl. How wonderful!”

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