07/09/2026
My first fourpeat client welcomed their sweet son this morning. 🥹💙
This family is so incredibly special to me for so many reasons. We've shared four birth journeys together, along with walking through a few heartbreaking losses.
She has a history of VERY fast labors...for example, her last labor was only about 30ish minutes long. She called me around 6:40 this morning to say she'd had two contractions about 40 minutes apart and was leaking fluid. (To be honest, if any other client had told me this, I would have suggested they go back to sleep, and done the same)
I trusted her instincts, got up & started getting ready to leave. I arrived a little over an hour later, and her labor was still incredibly mild. She was exhausted from a poor night's sleep, so we encouraged her to rest. I slipped out to their backyard to pick fresh raspberries for her postpartum oatmeal & as I headed back inside, her husband came to get me because she began vocalizing. I quickly joined her, and after about 20 incredibly intense minutes later, their sweet baby was born.
After more than 200 births, I am constantly humbled by just how powerful women are along with each experience being soooo unique.
She also put together the sweetest little kit for me to bake a birthday cake so her kids could decorate it later once they got home. Their new little brother is already so very loved. 💙
