Announcement: Grow Midwives asked me to join their team and I said YES! I will serve as a Senior Consultant furthering Grow Midwives' work to support midwives and midwifery practices across the US. What a perfect time to join -National Midwifery Week. Thank you Grow Midwives for believing in me -I am thrilled, honored and humbled. And so excited to get started! Note: I am still ...
Local Care Midwifery in the Time of Corona… Update March 25, 2020 Hello Dear Ones, The world has changed so much since I posted the letter below on March 14. As of today, one third of the entire world is ‘locked down’ -movements of people severely restricted to slow the Covid 19 Pandemic. People are working from home. Kids are no longer going to school, or ...
August 3, 2009, the doors of Local Care Midwifery opened for business. And we have been working ever since -attending births both at home and hospital, doing prenatal, postpartum and lactation visits, also plenty of gynecologic, mental health and primary care visits. There have been office and home visits galore, Spring and Fall Open Houses, and the ongoing LCM Moms & More semi monthly meetings. ...
Here are the 2018 LCM stats and Michelle's musings
Since early September 2015, I have had admitting privileges at Bellevue Women's Center in Niskayuna, NY. And as of today, I am listed on the website. Yay! There is a new push in the marketing team to get things 'cleaned up'. One of the side effects of this is that I am now have a provider profile that is searchable and published. And thanks to Ashley Wilbur for my headshot:
Update on Baby Abby
Babies babies everywhere and not a minute to mention. Since Thanksgiving Day, LCM and yours truly have attended five births. All lovely home births as planned, with healthy moms, thriving babes, and all relatively efficient. Thanks abound for every bit. The baby blogs will be appearing shortly on the Home Page of the website and on the Welcome to the World page. But in the meantime, ...
I did a Thing! I wrote a chapter for a book entitled 'Nobody Told Me About That! The First Six Weeks'. Come celebrate with us on Sunday Dec 9 from 3-5 PM. We will have books for sale, pens at the ready for me to sign said books, a fire in the fireplace, some hot cider, and a few delicious nibbles. Join us if you can! ...
Today is Local Care Midwifery's 9th birthday and the beginning of our 10th year. Can you believe it? Our doors open 8/3/2009 and the first LCM Baby was born just a few weeks later. Now we are up to 254!
As a midwife in private practice, I am almost always on call. From the time any client is within three weeks of her due date until she births, I am at the ready. That means that I always am within earshot of my phone, my Apple-watch strapped to my wrist, that my gas tank is at least a quarter full, that I do not drink a ...
