By rssfeeds-admin Wingo’s company is called Beautiful Blessings Birth Services, and she has helped nearly 100 moms with at-home births. She is a mom to six children, five of whom were delivered at home. Wingo’s first child was born in a hospital, and the experience led her to further explore home births and eventually gain more interest in midwifery.
“My husband and I have often talked about that if things had gone a little differently with our first, it could have changed my trajectory because I was so close to having a c-section. That would’ve changed probably the amount of children I would have ended up having, and where I had them,” said Wingo.
Wingo has always considered herself natural-based and knew of a midwife in the area she lived in at the time. She added that her husband was raised in the more medical model of care and felt like a hospital would be a good place to start their family journey.
“In hindsight, he would tell you that’s one of his biggest regrets,” Wingo added. “All the things I said I didn’t want to happen, happened. Internal fetal monitoring. I didn’t want an epidural. I wanted to do it naturally and feel all the sensations. That didn’t happen. I ended up using forceps to get her out. The doctor was like, if we don’t get her soon, we’re headed back. Get the room ready.”
Wingo also said the postpartum period was extremely hard.
“I had heard about all these beautiful birth stories that happened, and that was not what I got at all,” Wingo added.
When she became pregnant again, Wingo and her husband were determined to do things differently this time. Wingo recalled interviewing a midwife for more than two hours, leaving her feeling empowered, which was a stark contrast to when she says she felt like a machine being monitored with her first baby.
“My first labor was 24 hours, and we had been pushing with forceps for over half an hour as well. There were so many things. Then, my second birth, which was at home, was a five-hour labor. two pushes. It was just so different,” said Wingo.
Wingo, originally from Arkansas, has called Texas home for 13 years. When she became pregnant here, she started looking for midwives to consider and was surprised to find out they were spread out across the state.
It was during her fifth pregnancy that she felt called to be a midwife.
“It’s one of the oldest professions. The first time you hear about a midwife being mentioned, it’s in the bible. That’s pretty amazing to think that it’s been around this long and it hasn’t, really, since the last 100 years, hasn’t shifted from midwifery care from being a natural home environment, women in the community coming and helping,” Wingo explained.
Wingo added that it’s a completely different mode of care, calling it apples and oranges when comparing hospital births with home births.
“The model of care in midwifery is based in that everything is at home and that this is a natural process,” Wingo said.
Wingo shared the different options mothers in the Big Country have when it comes to midwifery. Wingo’s car is her office, and she brings everything she needs to a mother’s home, as she wants the moms to feel comfortable.
“Everything you see in a labor and delivery room, I have. It just looks different. It’s in a different form, ” Wingo said.
Wingo also addressed common misconceptions about home births.
“We bring a trained birth assistant with us. We’re all trained in CPR, neonatal resuscitation. We’ve all got extensive training and continuing education all the time for the safety of mom and baby,” Wingo explained. “‘I’m not like a hippie and just doing sage around and doing some herbs over here. We are medical professionals. We are bringing that to the space, but we also respect the body and the way it was designed.”
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