Ruth Bailey
Co-Owner, Midwife, Doula, Spinning Babies Parent Educator and EC Training
Birth Doula
Ruth Bailey, CPM, LM, is a licensed midwife in the state of Texas and a multi-trained doula with over 15 years of experience supporting families from conception through the first year postpartum. Her work is grounded in the Midwifery Model of Care and the philosophy of being “with woman,” offering compassionate, trauma-informed, and evidence-based care across all birth settings—including home, birth center, and hospital.
Since 2008, Ruth has served families in the Austin area as a doula and began her Midwifery training in 2022. Her heart lies with offering nonjudgmental care for all birth choices including planned cesareans to limited-unassisted births.
Her holistic approach includes building a nutritionally healthy pregnancy, facilitating mobility of the body for easier birth and postpartum. Each client receives a course on nutrition, community groups for postpartum planning, pelvic floor PT and parenting groups.
She is a mother of two herself and inspired daily by the strength and wisdom of the birthing body. Ruth believes that comprehensive, support for all facets of the parent’s lives is vital in their journey into parenthood.
In the Spinning Babies® class, Ruth teaches how to balance the mother’s anatomy to create more comfort and ease in pregnancy and birth. This class is a thorough overview of birth anatomy and the path a baby takes to navigate the pelvis as they are born through baby optimal position and movements to make room for baby.
Ruth also provides consultations in pregnancy and labor when needed. Situations include a persistent breech baby, stalled labor, helping a baby that is ‘high’ to engage, getting labor started after water breaks.
For herself, postpartum was a very difficult time. Based on working with postpartum families since 2008, decades of experience and apprenticing doulas, she has found a set list of useful techniques and tools to ease the transition after coming home with baby. Ruth offers consultative postpartum care for Village families. Families who choose consultative care, usually have less overall visits and focus on assessment and education.
Consultative care starts with a prenatal consult and then weekly postpartum as they build confidence and learn their new rhythm.
Ruth was determined to get her first child out of diapers as soon as possible, and against all belief of possibility she potty trained her 15 month old. She began the process of what she later learned was called Elimination Communication (or Elimination Control). Her next baby, she trained at 8 month. She found early potty training not only practical, but a way of deepening her connection with her children. She now offers to share the joy and wisdom she learned through potty training your little one! This approach works great for babies 9mo-20mo.
Homemade Formula
Breastfeeding did not come easy. Her first child began developing, allergies, intolerances, and recurrent ear infections, until the day she took him off commercial formula. With her second child, to avoid the formula roller-coaster she went on with her first, she chose to give her daughter a homemade infant formula. She attributes her daughter’s healthy immune system largely to the quality nutrition she received from the Weston A Price homemade infant formula.
When breast milk isn’t an option, this is always her first recommendation to clients. Because she has used this herself, Ruth is happy to talk with families about different options they may have and either guide them through the process themselves or do an in home tutorial. Some families opt for a weekly visit from the ‘Milk Fairy’ to make and freeze enough formula for 1+weeks at a time.
