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 ...
Interview for Birth Justice podcast 11/4/2020
Got a few a minutes? If so, watch this! Amanda DeSalvatore created this amazing piece of digital storytelling for a class project. Amanda initially met me when she was pregnant with her first child in the summer of 2006 while I was working at St. Mary's Hospital in Troy, NY. In the fall of 2019, she asked if we could sit down together to reminisce and ...
In October 2019, I was interviewed by Dr Benita Zahn for her biweekly show Health Beat on WNYT. I had so much fun! Give a look -Benita is delightful. And, please let me know if you learn anything new. (Midwifery is so cool!)
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. ...
Let go of expectations Sounds like a title to a self-help book, amirite? I never would have thought that this simple, somewhat overused mantra, would be my driving force throughout my second labor, and ultimately be my guiding light over the next intense 6 weeks that followed. Let me elaborate… Here were my expectations: Second pregnancy, walk in the park. Conceive on attempt #1 just ...
Here are the 2018 LCM stats and Michelle's musings
Update on Baby Abby
Ok folks a big, long, nasty hot spell is arriving as I type. The forecast puts us above 90 degrees every day in the next week. Here are some requests, suggestions and miscellaneous tips to help you survive the swelter. Please, please, please stay hydrated this coming week. Dehydration can lead to all kinds of nasty things ranging from feeling rotten, to preterm labor, to death. ...
Evidence based care (aka evidence based practice) is a phrase that gets tossed around a lot. It is frustrating to me, a health care provider that aims to provide evidence based care, it is frustrating when I hear other providers say that their patients ‘refused evidence based care” as if evidence were the only part of the equation. Nope. Evidence based care has three parts: the evidence, ...
