Unmedicated birth at Seasons Midwifery & Birth Center, Thornton, CO.

This strong, single, blind mother requested to “see” her baby as he crowned, reaching down to feel. And when the time came, he decided to enter this world with one push the midwives at Denver Health helped her catch him, bringing him up to her chest with grace. He instinctually nestled into her chest and reached up to touch her face, her nose, her lips as she exclaimed, “YES, that is my face!”

It is 2019’s National Midwifery Week (#NMW2019) and I have spent the last several days looking through some of the most incredible images of midwives walking the journey with birthing families. Reading some of the most empowering, ovary-throbbing and tear-jerking birth stories you could imagine.