Dare Alla Luce Doula - Katharine Deeb

06/13/2026

Good news for St. John’s County families!

06/05/2026

🎉 EXCITING NEWS FOR THE BIRTH COMMUNITY! 🎉

First Coast Midwifery & Birth Center is thrilled to announce that we are once again accepting VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) and HBAC (Home Birth After Cesarean) clients! 🌊🤍
Thanks to recent changes in our liability coverage, we are excited to reopen these care options and support more families in achieving the birth experience they desire.

✨ As a reminder:
• FREE consultations
• FREE insurance verification
• Personalized midwifery care
• Birth center and home birth options available for qualifying clients

We are currently in-network with major insurance plans including:
✔️ Blue Cross Blue Shield
✔️ Ambetter
✔️ Sunshine Health Medicaid of Florida

Interested in learning more or seeing if you’re a candidate for care?

📱 Text 904-990-3619 with your email address and our team will be happy to help you get started.

We can’t wait to serve more growing families throughout Northeast Florida! 💙

04/27/2026

🚨🚨 BREAKING: Research catches up with physiology....

Don't want to push for a long time in labor? Just don't push for a while and use gravity. Then you might end up pushing less than 15 minutes!

Is purple pushing FINALLY on its way out? While many facilities and providers have stepped away from strong and forceful purple pushing, variations of it still exist. This often leaves parents pushing for 1, 2, or even 3 hours - especially in first births and with epidurals.

Despite awareness of the fetal ejection reflex and birth being a normal physiological process, modern obstetrics left many believing we MUST push as soon as we reach full dilation.

Yet this often leaves moms pushing for hours.

Research from Besançon University Hospital, France looked at over 10,000 term singleton births.

Their research concluded: Under a delayed pushing policy of up to 3 hours, active pushing remained less than 15 minutes, supporting high rates of spontaneous vaginal birth and potentially reducing the need for instrumental delivery.

While there are occasional situations where directed pushing might be indicated (baby showing signs if distress, signs of cord compression, etc.), research is showing what midwives, many l&d nurses, and doulas have observed: birth needs patience.

👇🏽 Did you labor down or push as soon as you were fully dilated?

Study below.

04/12/2026

Please pay attention to what’s happening in Georgia

03/31/2026

Jennie Joseph 👏👏👏

Midwives save lives – and that’s exactly what Jennie Joseph-Midwife has been doing through Commonsense Childbirth Inc. since 2003.

We began our grantmaking in the United States in 2013 following reports that the U.S. maternal mortality rate was worsening. As the founder of Commonsense Childbirth in Florida, Jennie is a national role model and movement leader, and was an obvious first U.S.-based grantee.

Jennie’s work is rooted in the midwifery model of care. She developed her guiding philosophy, “the JJ Way”, that centers the birthing person in their experience of care, ensuring they are heard, respected, and met with quality, dignified care. Jennie also founded the first Black woman-led, nationally accredited, midwifery school in the U.S., Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery.

Jennie often says that midwifery is more than a profession; it is a calling. She is deeply invested in restoring and sustaining the next generation of culturally congruent providers who, she reminds us, “stand in the care gap” for their communities, offering a higher standard of care that is transforming maternal health outcomes.

We are proud to have partnered with Jennie for so many years, supporting her extraordinary work.

📰 Read the 2022 TIME article honoring Jennie’s work: https://bit.ly/4rCW7kj
🎥 Watch our film, Giving Birth in America: Florida, which features Jennie in action: https://bit.ly/3ND5lPw



Photo: Jennie Joseph holds a baby at Commonsense Childbirth in Winter Garden, Florida. (Commonsense Childbirth, 2023)

02/13/2026

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01/17/2026

Great hack!

12/26/2025

This.

Ask your OB what they think of midwives.

12/21/2025

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Beautiful birth with a repeat client of mine this am and was able to be with us at the end!

Will we have anymore 2025 babies?

11/24/2025

“What we’ve been seeing, especially over the last few years, is that all three of these factors – getting to a provider, being seen by a provider, and feeling safe, seeking care – are all systematically breaking down at the same time.” - Divya Sooryakumar, Every Mother Counts

First-trimester care is a key predictor of healthy pregnancies. Yet, for four years now, early access has been declining. A new report from March of Dimes reveals that systemic factors are keeping 25% of pregnant women in the U.S. from accessing prenatal care in their first trimester.

🔗 Learn more in a new article from Jacqueline Howard and Asuka Koda for CNN Health, featuring insights from our Vice President of Programs and Impact, Divya Sooryakumar: https://cnn.it/49yvGHk