Courtney’s Hospital Birth Story

My first son was born prematurely at 33 weeks and my entire experience with his birth was so radically different than the unmedicated childbirth I had been hoping for, I really wanted to try and reclaim my vision of what childbirth could be like for my second baby. A Doula friend told me about Anacortes Midwifery and encouraged me to reach out because she had heard so many great things about Miranda and because there is no hospital on the island where I live having a home birth was not an option.

The care Miranda and Kelly provided to me prenatal, postnatal and during the birth of my second son, was exactly what I had been hoping to find in the midwifery care model. Both women are warm, charming, kind and very confident female personalities… everything you want in a midwife and my first impression of both of them was the same… These are the ladies I want on my team, advocating for me and bringing my baby safely into this world. 

My second son was born very quickly, much much faster than I ever thought possible. The birth was WILD and like a freight train and while I had no way of knowing that I would be holding my baby in a very short period of time, Miranda took the reins and guided me through it all. I was able to have a birth without pain meds, no complications to my body and a perfect, beautiful healthy baby boy born on Valentines Day. There is nothing more I could have asked for, and I am SO grateful to Miranda and Kelly for giving me the birth experience I knew my body was capable of and bringing my beautiful baby into the world with such expertise and grace while in a hospital setting.