East Texas Midwives Association

Looking for a Midwife? The ETMA ladies are here to serve you.

Midwives (alphabetically)

Priscilla Brickey
Motherly Transitions

Heather Carmody
Rose City Midwifery and Wellness

Holly Clayburn
East Texas Birth Co

Diane Dreier
Fair Flowers Birth Services

Sarah Friberg
Beautiful Blessings Midwifery

Kristin Green
Seeds of Grace Midwifery

Gabriella Gunter
In a Family Way Midwifery

Megan Loewen
Stella Midwifery

Rosetta Pettyjohn Midwife
Homebirth Haven

Colleen Shulenberger
The Midwife

Rachel Solly
Moxie Midwifery Tyler

Vicky Wells
Birth Center

Birth Centers:

Flowers Birth Services- Mt Pleasant

Longview Birth Center - Longview

Motherly Transitions - Nacogdoches

The Tyler Birth House - Tyler

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East Texas midwives all together now! "Yes, we do!"

What every midwife knows so well!

What does it mean to walk as a Midwife?
Well first my love, you better grow thick skin. The purposeful propaganda that started centuries ago is still strong today. Walk in a room and say you are a home birth midwife and watch what happens. Projections, reflections, traumas, and ignorance. You will become a mirror. Remember to reflect back love and grace for you represent the thin veil between life and death. You will grow to know it well.
Being a midwife means gentle hands and whispered tones even when your heart is beating loudly in your ears and you haven't turned off your vigilance for hours/days. It's a full bladder, dehydrated mouth, and growling stomach that gets pushed aside because your presence means something.
Midwifery is stopping a hemorrhage that people don't even know is happening because youre smiling and cooing at the baby to keep up the oxytocin.It is sitting on a living room floor helping a baby cry while telling everyone, "Oh my goodness look how cute she is! Her color is getting so pink! Her heart is so strong." It is sometimes being the voice in the room that says, "I think you would benefit from an epidural." Then at the next birth you are nodding along as a woman cries she can't do it as you guide her to the tub because you know her baby is arriving soon. It is jumping for joy at that first latch and each ounce of baby weight gained.
It is knowing that these truths will be seen as sacrilegious to some and not "true" Midwifery. Then on the other side, you will have people shocked that you know how to take a blood pressure and amazed that you understand how to manage emergencies. You will not win over them all. You have to accept this.
It is knowing you are not God and you humbly submit to the understanding that you will never predict or control it all.
It is missing date nights and apologizing that you have to keep getting up to answer the phone. Saying no to activities you so desperately want to do but there is no cell service and a baby is arriving soon.
But mostly, its hearing the voice in your head saying after each moment with a mother, "If that is all I ever did, it is more than enough. This is what it means to work for the Divine"

A great way to spend a day!

Birth Emergency Skills Training (BEST) Workshop and NRP are coming to Tyler in November 2022. Space is limited — 18 participants for BEST Workshop and 12 participants for NRP. For more information about BEST you can visit the website https://www.birthemergency.com. For more information about the BEST Workshop and NRP in Tyler, see details below.
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Tyler, Texas (BEST/NRP) - November 18-19, 2022
Nov. 18th (BEST) 9-6:15pm, Nov. 19th (NRP) 9-1pm
Location: Collins Complete Familycare, 805 S. Broadway, Tyler, TX 75701
Cost: BEST $500 + $35, NRP ($175 for BEST participants and $200 for others) + $35
* $35 fees are paid online when accessing online components of each program *
To Register: Send a $200 deposit via PayPal (friends and family) to [email protected] or Venmo -Jimenez-7
Payment in full is due by October 15, 2022
Registration commitment includes completion of 8-10 hours of online training prior to workshop.
Bring your lunch to eat at the venue. Lunch, tea, coffee and snacks will be provided for all participants.
Contact Host: Tammy Jimenez at [email protected] or +1 903-246-2046

www.birthemergency.com

Birth Emergency Skills Training HOME Birth Emergency Skills Training® (BEST) is the longest-running emergency skills course for out-of-hospital midwives, proudly educating thousands of participants since 2008. Participants build on core competencies and apply current evidence to clinical pra

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A huge THANK YOU to our precious, Moxie Midwifery for hosting a lovely brunch for us midwives while we did peer review. Rachel is a stinking fabulous midwife and friend to all.
We had a great time visiting and learning more ways to grow as professionals and servants to our community. Thankful for this group!
- Midwife Colleen

Birth Emergency Skills Training (BEST) Workshop and NRP are coming to Tyler in November 2022. Space is limited — 18 participants for BEST Workshop and 12 participants for NRP. For more information about BEST you can visit the website https://www.birthemergency.com. For more information about the BEST Workshop and NRP in Tyler, see details below.

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Tyler, Texas (BEST/NRP) - November 4-5, 2022

Nov. 4th (BEST) 9-6:15pm, Nov. 5th (NRP) 9-1pm

Location: Collins Complete Familycare, 805 S. Broadway, Tyler, TX 75701

Cost: BEST $500 + $35, NRP ($175 for BEST participants and $200 for others) + $35

* $35 fees are paid online when accessing online components of each program *

To Register: Send a $200 deposit via PayPal (friends and family) to [email protected] or Venmo -Jimenez-7

Payment in full is due by September 1st, 2022

Registration commitment includes completion of 8-10 hours of online training prior to workshop.

Bring your lunch to eat at the venue. Lunch, tea, coffee and snacks will be provided for all participants.

Contact Host: Tammy Jimenez at [email protected] or (903) 246-2046

Birth Emergency Skills Training HOME Birth Emergency Skills Training® (BEST) is the longest-running emergency skills course for out-of-hospital midwives, proudly educating thousands of participants since 2008. Participants build on core competencies and apply current evidence to clinical pra

Midwife Sarah offers her clients SneakPeek Clinical Early Gender DNA Test! For those of us who just can’t wait to know who are baby is! ❤️

Can't wait to find out your baby's gender?? I now offer Sneak Peek gender blood testing as early as 7 weeks! Contact me to schedule an appointment! Results within 48 hours!

Kids at prenatal appointments??
Absolutely!
Midwifery is for the WHOLE family! Kids, grandparents, partner, auntie… everyone but the cat. 🤣
Midwife Rachel was hosting some sweet little guys!

Bring your big kids, your BFF, your mom or your partner! You choose who comes with you to your prenatal appointments! Your kids are always welcome!💗

We are community midwives - With Woman. No matter what.
Love this, Kristin.

Sometimes we get called for baby day and it isn't. Sometimes we sit and wait or even spend the night and baby decides to wait for another day. Sometimes a tired or exasperated or embarrassed mom will empathically announce they will wait before calling the next time.
Please don't! I can't help but remember all those births I missed or barely made because mom was afraid to bother me again for a reluctant baby.
A midwife is "with woman". Midwives spend a lot of time waiting with woman. We wait for baby to decide a birthday. We wait in labor and we wait with you when baby is reluctant. Sometimes waiting is like a brief chat and sometimes waiting is like a long in depth heart to heart conversation. In times like these, it feels more like a dropped call waiting to be continued later. But none the less, we will wait with you.
It's not a inconvenience. It's our calling to wait with you!

Did you know your community midwives gather every couple months to do peer review, encouragement, updates on State regulations, and coffee? 💕
East Texas is incredibly blessed to have a tight group of midwives who support one another in this service of others.
So thankful!

East Texas Midwives Association updated their business hours.