HEART OF A WOMAN MIDWIFERY SERVICES
We are located at 601 High Street in Oregon City Oregon 503-655-2021
Her Philosophy on Birthing
“Children are a gift from God”
Where and how you choose to have your baby can either enhance the life experience or diminish it. I believe that midwifery care is highly personal and empowering.
Women have the capability and the right to birth their babies their way. I believe that women have better and healthier results if you let nature take its course. Birth without drugs is better for you and your baby. The world would desire to use fear and tension to make birth more difficult. Statistics show that homebirth is as safe as a hospital birth for low risk women with adequate prenatal care and qualified attendants. Birth is a natural and life changing experience. A homebirth is a non-invasive way of giving birth. God knew what he was doing when he made the birth process.
"Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?" says the Lord. ""Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?" says your God. Isaiah 66:9
You should be able to decide how you want your labor and birth to proceed. We allow nature to take its course and allow pregnancy and labor to develop without intervention. Everything we do is for the comfort, health and well-being of our moms and their babies.
Many families choose to birth at home. At home a woman can labor and birth in privacy and in the comfort of her own surroundings. You do not worry about when to go to the hospital. We come to you. We don't leave when our shift is over or show up "just in time" to catch your baby. We are there from beginning to the end and you are never separated from your baby.
During labor you are encouraged to drink, eat, change positions, walk, and make noises, bathe, and shower or do nothing. Dads are just as important too. We support you through your hard work of labor. We help you with pain management techniques and constant positive reinforcement.
Waterbirth
Kori Muth is a Midwife. She has been married for 29 years and has six children and 3 grandchildren She has been attending births for over 20 years. In December of 1997, she graduated from
How I came to be a Midwife
Most midwives will tell you all their life they have always wanted to be a midwife. I was just the opposite. I went to college. I earned an AA in Business Administration. I was all set for the University and then my high school sweetheart came home from the Marines and we got married. The next few years brought us three wonderful boys. All my births were unmedicated natural childbirth.
About the same time some friends of ours were having babies also. Only they were having their babies in some cabin in the woods or something. I remember thinking, “that was like having your baby in a cave. Who would ever choose that over a hospital”? I knew nothing about Midwives or Nature Paths. Becoming a Midwife had never crossed my mind. Besides, I hated blood and needles. However, whenever there was a baby to be born and room in the labor room, I was there. If there was a baby around, it was in my arms. I was a baby fanatic!
In 1992, a friend of mine was going to have a baby and she was having it at a birth clinic. She asked me to be her labor support person. I was ecstatic! A birth clinic, not a hospital? Well to make a long story short, it was awesome. She squatted her baby out. Imagine that! I couldn't stop talking for weeks. It changed my life. I knew right then and there I had a calling.
I found out there was going to be a midwife convention in
A year later these women held a “so you want to be a midwife” meeting. I went. Holly had decided to start a school for midwives. I applied, prayed, interviewed, prayed, interviewed again, and prayed again. I was accepted. I prayed again.
I learned a lot during those next three years. I learned compassion, diversity, acceptance, patience and love. I learned that birth came in many forms.
In my second year I began to apprentice with two wonderful Christian Midwives, Nancy Bordeaux and Sue Erickson. Over the next 8 years they taught me so much. I am grateful to them for their love, patience and words of encouragement.
Both Nancy and Sue retired in 2000.
As I look back on my life so far, I am thankful to my husband, children, friends, family, co-workers, clients, and God for helping me become the person I am today. They have shaped my belief of birth.
This page was last updated on: February 7, 2008.