The Freedom of Homebirth
At home, birth can be intimate, joyful, peaceful, and empowering.
Home is a familiar place where you can birth with confidence, supported by family, friends, and skilled midwives who honor birth and respect your wisdom and power. At home, care is woman-centered and family-centered. You are able to create your own rituals to celebrate birth and becoming a family. Home provides a sense of well-being and normalcy that facilitates labor — you can relax and work with labor and respond to intensity in a variety of ways. Water birth is also possible... Read more. |
Client Testimonials"It would be impossible to overstate how magical the birth experience is. Transformational in every way, it is a process as natural as every breath. And yet, natural though it is, I'm not sure how I would have found my way without the loving assistance of my midwife, Judy Luce. There is no 'how' to birth. It is an experience that is so close in that it cannot be touched by words. How then, did Judy always know when and what to say and do? Read more.
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My Homebirth Story
My decision to have a homebirth was both simple and very complex. It was simple in that from the very beginning of this pregnancy it never entered my head that this baby would be born anywhere but in our home. It was complex because the decision to do this personally represented a stage of growth and awareness of many issues — social, philosophical, political and even spiritual. They related to my sense of being a woman in touch with and responsible for my own body. It had to do with our sense of family, of the naturalness of life, of birth, of sexuality...
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Trillium (Birthroot), pictured throughout this site, is an herb grown in the Midwest that was traditionally
used to ease labor and facilitate birth. Like homebirth midwifery, Birthroot is an endangered species.
It gives me great joy to help facilitate birth, honor women's wisdom and reclaim tradition.
used to ease labor and facilitate birth. Like homebirth midwifery, Birthroot is an endangered species.
It gives me great joy to help facilitate birth, honor women's wisdom and reclaim tradition.
