Your journey through Parenthood starts here.
Experience a nurturing and supportive environment with Ruth Bailey, specializing in midwifery care for home and hospital birth and doula services for birth and postpartum.
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.
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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.
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One of her favorite passages in the Bible is:“For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy work s; And that my soul knoweth right well. My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, And curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! ” (Psalm 139:13-17) This is never more true than in the event of pregnancy, birth and motherhood. Helping a mother see this about herself and her baby is the greatest honor one could have.
D. Swiatek
If you’re having trouble deciding who to include in your birth team, go with Ruth. You won’t regret it!
Our story: We initially hired Ruth as our doula to assist with our planned epidural/hospital birth with an OB. We wanted more information than we were receiving in our 15 minute OB appointments, and Ruth recommended a natural childbirth class. The more we got to know Ruth as our doula and learned about natural birth, it was only logical to ask Ruth to serve as our midwife!
We switched to a home birth with Ruth officially in “midwife mode” at 30 weeks. We were blown away by the quality of care we received. Ruth went SO FAR above and beyond the “job”. Our appointments, texts and phone calls represented the highest level of clinical care.
For example, weekly checks for any indication of preeclampsia, several minutes of monitoring/charting my baby’s heart rate at each appointment so she’ll know a normal/healthy heart rate range for my baby to make informed decisions during the birth. Ruth cares for not just the Mom and baby she’s delivering, but the whole family.
She served as a trusted confidant for my husband and I as we navigated our marriage transition to parenthood, and remains a close friend. We have seen her midwife for several close friends and family members during excruciating multi-day labors, providing exceptional emotional care and informed clinical recommendations throughout.
PS: Ruth hugs are therapy. She has the strongest arms of any woman I’ve ever met. If you are #blessed to have Ruth has your doula, she sets the standard for the best counter pressure in labor contractions. And if you need further proof that this isn’t “just a job” for Ruth Bailey… she established a nonprofit and put 4 casitas on her property to give families access to stable housing before, during and after birth. She’s the real deal!
C. Lanehart
Ruth was truly an answered prayer; many times over.
This was my third baby but first experience with midwifery care, and while I believe we experience everything just as we are meant; I don’t see myself letting anyone but Ruth walk alongside future pregnancies.I knew with this being my first unmedicated home birth, I needed someone who would hear my worries and not necessarily diffuse them, but entertain them with added value. Every time she helped me to understand the origin of that fear and pointed me back the Lord; the one who created me to deliver this baby. Her confidence in me and my ability to do this was unwavering and contagious.During the actual birth, when moments of fear or seeds of doubt seeped in, she was a rock; nothing shook her, and that was so necessary for me to feel. The mountain I was climbing was so foreign, so different from my hospital births, and having her light hearted energy brought me peace.In all of our birth pictures, she’s either smiling or has a calm proud smirk; almost that of a proud mom who’s gently coached her child for months and is now watching the fruits of her labor (literally) unfold.It was even more valuable having her there postpartum. Leaving the hospital after our first 2 babies were born felt like a breakup with my Obgyn after 9 months of dating. I felt unseen, unwanted, confused, scared, and lonely to a degree.I felt the opposite with Ruth. She was always only a text away. And she received a lot of my texts (many involving pictures of baby poop…..sorry). Even as a third time mom, I was still confused and so fragile at times, and she met those texts with open arms…errr willing fingers to respond with yet again her contagious confidence in me and now my baby.I looked forward to her home visits. As strange as it sounds, my body and mind felt safe around her, she became a calming presence, and anyone who has been postpartum knows the importance of only allowing people of that nature into the bubble.While I don’t know what the future of our family holds; if this was my last journey along the miracle of carrying and birthing life, I will be so grateful to hold fast to the experience I was able to have with Ruth by my side.
S. Cavendish
With Ruth’s support, I went from fear and trauma to having the most magical, healing, and redeeming home birth—I can’t wait to have another baby with her.
If I could give more than 5 stars, I would. Ruth is exceptional. I found her originally seeking a doula after an immensely traumatic hospital birth with my oldest and was scared to have my second out of the hospital after having such an intense experience with my first. She met me where I was and was the first healthcare professional to actually sit with me and ASK me about what my first birth looked like. She helped me peel back layers of trauma that I didn’t even know were there and was the best support system; she empowered me and never once pressured me to do anything I wasn’t comfortable with and truly made me feel like my desires and needs were priorities in my care. I ended up completely walking away from my OBGYNs office and fully embracing a home birth and had the most magical/healing/uneventful/redeeming home birth last October. Her support of me and my husband’s needs means the absolute world to me and I can’t wait to have another baby with her! She is constantly offering her expertise and advice to families even if they’re not clients and it’s so evident that she is using her spiritual, God-bestowed gifts to serve moms and families during such a special, personal time in our lives. We love you, Ruth!