Car seat safety is a passion of mine and is often times over looked by well meaning parents. Even parents that have a toddler or older child can and often DO make car seat mistakes. The American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending that babies should remain rear-facing until they reach the maximum height and
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Friendship Is Key
Friendship among student midwives can be hard to find at first but even introverts need friends in their corner, Here is where to find them.
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How To: Pick Your Midwife
Thankfully, in the DFW area we have lots of options but it does not always make it easy to pick your midwife. Picking your midwife can be hard and overwhelming Yay! You just found out you are pregnant and know you want to use a midwife. Or maybe you’ve been receiving care from another provider
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Organization Tips for Student Midwives
When you think about being a student midwife, organization does not typically come to mind but it should. We dream about catching babies, palpating tummies and sweet newborn toes. What we do not dream about is the piles of paperwork that log every. single. thing. we. do. This is why we need organization. The amount
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Lending Library at Fort Worth Midwifery
Why are books important to pregnancy and childbirth? I believe in education here at Fort Worth Midwifery and want all of our clients to make the best choices for their families. This is not possible if families are not educated in their many options. To help my clients learn more about childbirth, pregnancy and life
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Sign offs for Student midwives
Without obtaining your sign offs in a timely fashion, you could loose everything. Student midwives need to be better about getting sign offs/ signatures from your preceptors. Do not go 6 months without getting your signatures or you may have to start over. Let that sink in You could loose months or years of your
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Tummy Time
Today’s guest post is from Jessica Bryant from Sleep Happy Consulting LLC. Jessica has helped over 350 helping sleep deprived parents create the sleep routines of their dreams in DFW and across the country since she opened her practice in 2015. Jessica lives with her husband of 20 years and her three happy sleepers, including
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The on call life
Midwifery is a rewarding career but the on call life, stress and the conditions you put yourself in takes a toll on your mind and body. Are you prepared to live the on call life? Have you ever been up for 72 hours with minutes of sleep, no shower, 3 day old clothes and a
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Evelyn’s En Caul Water Birth
The beautiful story of the En Caul water birth of Evelyn as told by her mother.
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Student Midwife Bag
What bag you have and what’s inside it is hot topic on all the student midwife pages. We all seek to find that perfect bag that holds all the things we need. Each practice requires their students to have different supplies with some supplying them all and others wanting you to build up your birth
