Empowering Women's Health With Amanda

Have you ever thought, Can I Have a Homebirth? - You were made to do this one thing without a doubt!!! Many women are more than capable of having a homebirth, EVEN when they don’t think so... If you have been thinking about having a homebirth and are wondering if it is something that you can do, I want to encourage you to seek out as much information as you can before deciding that you can’t...

You Decide, It’s Your Choice!! - Did you know that you have the ability to decline or delay any tests, ultrasounds, or checks that you don’t want during your pregnancy and childbirth experience? It’s TRUE!! Western medicine is trying to change this by changing the conversations and removing words that give their patients a choice...

One of the things that keeps coming up in conversations that I find extremely disturbing is how our medical system is dictating our care and how they are training their labor and delivery teams on how to handle having a doula attending and assisting their patients in the birth of their baby....

In today’s medical world women are not getting the care they deserve or desire and many are turning to homebirths with midwives to get what they are looking for. I was one of those women and I have now had three children at home surrounded by my family. If you have been thinking about having a homebirth and are wondering if it is something that you can do, I want to encourage you to seek out as much information as you can before deciding that you can’t. See a lot of times our mind will tell us that something is too hard or too scary and that stops us from moving forward towards our desires. 

God gave me a supernatural belief in my ability to birth our child naturally.....I have a FIRM belief in the ability of all women to be able to do this........Can we tell our body to get pregnant?.......We have little control over when we will get pregnant, how that pregnancy will go, or what our baby will look like in the end......I believe that this is true for anything you are drawn to learn or do in life!

So he agreed to having the homebirth I wanted... Having Jonathan (my husband) on board with contracting a midwife and having a homebirth was the answer to my prayers and everything I wanted. I didn’t tell my OB that I was going for a home birth because I wasn’t going to give him any opportunities to speak negatively into what I WANTED!

Being pregnant again was such a blessing and looking back it still amazes me that it was soooo easy. After trying for so long for our first and having to get fertility help, getting pregnant right away when trying again and then losing that baby…….So there I was realizing that I didn’t want to take my chances with this medical group and have someone I didn’t trust involved in my care in any way.....This time around I didn’t let the doctor dictate to me how or what I would be doing...

If you have ever suffered through the loss of a pregnancy you know the mental battle that comes along after that loss.......I also came to realize how different the experience was from my first miscarriage. I barely had time to process because we had a toddler who needed me........I had, however, started supporting my progesterone balance.

A little over a year after our daughter was born we decided that we wanted to have another baby... Since we were unable to conceive on our own the first time, we weren’t sure what trying again would look like. We hoped for the best of course but again, would it work or would it be a challenge again?.......there wasn’t a fetal pole and had to get some bloodwork done to determine if I was in the process of miscarrying...

I didn’t know what I didn’t know! - But I do know now! Have you ever been at a point in your life where you follow ALL the things, don’t question the ‘experts’, and just go with the direction others are TELLING you is the best way? That is what I did with my first pregnancy and by the end...