Wildflower Midwifery Care

11/01/2026

The sun was setting as I arrived at a home to welcome the 3rd of the week. A few hours after sunrise, baby was born and prayers were answered. I am so blessed to witness such beauty, strength and love in the work I do.

10/31/2026

Do your research!!!

10/22/2026

Once again I was invited to speak to the Exploring Medical Careers class at Anoka STEP program. I shared the differences between home and hospital care, midwife vs OB care and the autonomy I enjoy as a homebirth midwife here in MN. I brought photos and a birth video (you can see them on my website) as well as my birth bag so all the tools I carry could be visualized. These high school students learned that there are many skills to being a midwife but the number one skill is knowing when they are really needed. AI created the photo for me because these students asked so many excellent questions, we ran out of time for me to ask for a photo!

10/19/2026

Their support is so helpful to so many!

💚 It all began with seven mothers, 70 years ago today. On October 17, 1956, the first La Leche League meeting took place at Mary White’s home in Illinois, USA. Seven mothers came together to share breastfeeding support, information, and encouragement.

Seventy years later, La Leche League continues to connect mothers worldwide through breastfeeding support.

To celebrate this anniversary, we are sharing a special edition of LLL Today that looks back at our history and 70 years of mother-to-mother breastfeeding support.

🌍 Available in seven languages.

📖 Read the special edition: https://llli.org/lll-today-12/

10/16/2026

Everyone says there isn’t much to do between Christmas and New Years……💕

How common is your birthday?

🎂 Babies born on leap day (February 29) had the least common birthday in Canada from 1995 to 2025, while those born on September 20 had the most common.

Explore more live birth trends here: https://ow.ly/GMzz50ZY2Wf.

10/08/2026

It was Sheila Kitzinger who inspired my love of midwifery, homebirth and honoring nature’s methods.

Born in Taunton, Somerset, in 1929, the daughter of a tailor, Sheila Kitzinger would go on to change the way women across the world experience childbirth.

She trained in drama and voice production before studying social anthropology at Oxford, then turned an anthropologist's eye on the most human moment of all.

She campaigned against the medicalisation of childbirth and advocated for every woman to have the information she needs to make her own choices.

In 1958 she joined the advisory board of the National Childbirth Trust as a teacher and trainer, and she went on to lecture everywhere from Canada to Japan.

She believed women not at high risk should be offered the choice of a home birth, and some of her writing proved controversial for its time.

She wrote over thirty books and was appointed MBE in 1982 for her services to education for childbirth.

Sheila d*ed in Oxfordshire on 11 April 2015, aged 86, but her legacy endures in every woman who is informed, heard and trusted to choose.

Remember her name.

10/07/2026

Celebrating National Midwifery Week 🤍
For more than 13 years, I’ve had the incredible privilege of walking alongside families through one of life’s most transformative experiences—welcoming their babies into the world.
I’ve been honored to welcome more than 550 babies! Every birth has its own story, every family its own journey, and every baby has left a little footprint on my heart. 👣
Being a midwife is so much more than catching babies. It’s listening, supporting, advocating, educating, reassuring, and holding space for families through some of their most powerful moments.
I’m incredibly grateful for every family who has trusted me to be part of their story. And I’m proud to be part of a profession that believes in respectful, personalized, evidence-based care for every family.
Here’s to the midwives who show up, hold space, speak up, and care deeply. 💛
Happy National Midwifery Week!

09/30/2026

I have been repeating this for years—your baby does not need processed cereal products. Babies can eat what you are eating once they meet the milestones of sitting on their own, pincer grasp and loss of auto tongue thrust reflex. Until one year their number one food should be breastmilk and other foods are secondary.

Yes, this is real. Consumer Reports tested 48 packaged baby foods from 11 brands for heavy metals and plastic chemicals. Ge**er Rice Cereal averaged 63 parts per billion of inorganic arsenic, over the level Consumer Reports' scientists consider safe for a baby to eat every day. It was one of only two products flagged for arsenic, and by far the highest.

Consumer Reports' advice: limit Ge**er Rice Cereal to half a serving a day (a serving is a quarter cup).

Inorganic arsenic is the more harmful form of arsenic. The World Health Organization's cancer agency lists it as a Group 1 carcinogen, meaning proven to cause cancer in humans. To***co smoking and asbestos are in the same group. Rice soaks up arsenic from soil and water more than almost any other crop, which is why the pediatricians Consumer Reports spoke to say to skip or limit rice based cereals and choose oat, quinoa or wheat instead.

The FDA's limit for arsenic in infant rice cereal is 100 parts per billion, so Ge**er is under it. But that limit is not mandatory, and Consumer Reports has said for years that it is too high.

Ge**er told Consumer Reports: "All Ge**er products are safe as well as nutritious, including our rice cereal and rice-based snacks. These products meet all applicable FDA limits for heavy metals, as well as our own strict standards."

The good news from the same test: 96% of the baby foods were below Consumer Reports' level of concern for heavy metals, the best results they have ever seen.

Source: Consumer Reports, "We Tested 48 Baby Foods for Heavy Metals and Microplastics," published September 17, 2026. Full results at consumerreports.org.