Log Cabin Baby

The midwives… THE MIDWIVES!!!

Our midwives are the best. I admire and adore these three women. We are eternally grateful they have been in our lives over the last 3years or so.

You can check out their website if you want: Sacred Birth Midwifery

Tanya is great! This promo photo of her is clearly from the 1990’s, but Tanya is a bad-ass lady who has lived through (and delivered through) an even more off-the-grid lifestyle than the one Lia and I have. She has stories of living off the coast of Washington state on one of those remote islands giving birth with no running hot water or electricity. She makes our cabin and set up feel luxurious. She trains horses and I imagine she does so by flexing her biceps and simply staring them down till they yield to into submission.

Rebecca falls into the category of more like a mother you’d meet in Northampton or western mass. Not seriously crunchy, only sensibly crunchy; graying hair, comfortable clogs, that kinda lady. Her kids at this point are middle school or junior-high age so she gives off the vibe of a lady who’s packed a few school lunches earlier that day and probably going to a PTA meeting with a clipboard later that day.

And Anna is a younger (closer to our age) apprentice who’s been with them since we first started seeing them back in 2017. Anna is sweet and a lil more hip than her bosses. She’s a lil more fashionable and artsy seeming, as well being a young mom herself currently. You’ll see her below with the stethoscope checking on baby’s heart beats.

All three of them just came over on Wed (2/5/20) for our official week 35 home visit! I ran around in circles for three days prior yelling, “The midwives are coming! The midwives are coming!!”

A couple of bad pictures from midwife appointments in their Brattleboro office.
Lets see, these are from two separate visits in their Brattleboro office. They have a enough customers in the area that they rent one of these shared office spaces with a local homeopathic practice. Rebecca is wearing red in one of the photos and Tanya a grey cardigan on. I have been hesitant to do too much photographing during these meetings so my pictures aren’t great. These are from our 11/13 and 12/11 visits. Lia’s belly pic is from the Dec visit.
The Northampton office.
  • Anna and Lia
  • Tanya
  • Lia is trying to listen as Anna taps her fingers to the pace of the baby’s heart beat.
These photos are from our Jan 3rd visit to their official office in Northampton.(it feels fancy cuz we take an elevator to the top (5th) floor 🙂 Anna is wearing stripes and pinching her fingertips together to the baby’s heartbeat. Lia and I have had mixed results in hearing the baby through the stethoscope. Its a very sensitive tool (the stethoscope) and getting it lined up with our own eardrums is hard. Sometimes I just hear gurgles and nod politely that I think i hear something.
Rebecca is wearing red and can be seen doing a lot hand-pressing. All the midwives seem to really relish the chance each appointment to knead Lia’s belly. And then they say things like “oh, I feel the head, theres the feet and this is probably a forearm.” They figure out pretty quickly the baby’s position. They push and knead Lia’s belly beyond what I would ever do, and again, I often just politely nod. And Anna does a blood pressure test each week on Lia and they take out a tape measure and measure Lia’s abdomen and say positive things like “this is good!” We do or did pee tests each visit so its not just all sitting around talking about our feelings 🙂 As midwives they have all kinds of access and take-home options to the testing done with a normal doctors office.
Here’s Tim reading a pamphlet pretending to be useful and involved 🙂

Midwives Visit the Cabin- Feb 5th

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