Welcome

My name is Erin Sweeney. I am midwife and herbalist in Hailey, Idaho. I have been attending births for twenty-five years. My practice centers the continuum of matrescence from fertility through seasoned motherhood. I offer comprehensive maternity services for women planning to give birth at home. Additionally, I provide breastfeeding and postpartum education and support to all women and babies in the community.

My practice is rooted in fierce commitment to women’s ways of knowing and maternal-child attachment. Midwifery is my devotion to the wildness of life, to unwavering holy mother love. My other services include western herbalism, women’s health, pelvic work, and death accompaniment for the dying and their loved ones.

To schedule an appointment with me, please visit my scheduling page, or call me.

May love and laughter light your days and warm your heart and home!

Erin

Midwifery + Homebirth

Giving birth at home feels right for many women and families. Homebirth honors the continuum of our innate, female wisdom and the sacredness of birthing and welcoming a child. It is a commitment to self-responsibility and to being receptive to the initiation of birth. Good midwifery care nurtures a woman’s entire being as she becomes a mother, addressing her physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual process. This kind of care leads to the best outcomes, the most satisfying births, and the most supported and connected postpartum time.

Idaho has the highest homebirth rate in the country. Some counties in Montana, Utah and Idaho have out-of-hospital birth rates of 6-20%.

Homebirth may be a good fit for you if….

• Being in the privacy and comfort of your home feels like the best place for you to deeply surrender into the work of labor and birth.
• You want a maternity care provider who understands that birth is an instinctive and wild process that usually works best without interference.
• Who protects and celebrates the physiologic blueprint of birth and the joy and safety it offers, who holds space for the transformative rite of passage, who respects that sometimes medical tools are helpful and necessary.
• Who is committed to guiding you with love and reverence as your motherhood story unfolds.

Click here to learn more about my midwifery services.

Botanical Medicine

My women and family health practice centers utilizes western herbalism, nutrition, and constitutional balancing. New clients can choose a 30 or 60 minute consultation from my booking page.

Most of my medicines are custom blended for each individual client, the old fashioned way. My office dispensary contains western, bio-regional plant medicine including tinctures, elixirs, syrups, teas, medicated oils, salves, and flower essences. I produce small-batch plant medicines in the Wood River drainage with plants that I have either grown, ethically wildcrafted, or obtained from other advanced herbalists. 

My approach to women’s health includes the principles and treatments of western herbalism, vitalism, ayurveda, connective tissue biology, somatic movement, visceral manipulation, traditional and contemporary abdominal therapies and womb work, and the wise woman tradition. After a two hour initial intake, clients will have a sustainable and actionable treatment plan with easy to implement steps for deep repair and increased vitality.

I work with women who:

• Are struggling with chronic symptoms, pain, or disease.
• Are ready to take make space in their lives for deep nourishment and lifestyle changes to support their vitality.
• Are curious about how the medicine of plants can transform a woman’s experience of herself and her life.
• Are ready to prioritize their physical and emotional bodies.

Some of the more common conditions I work with:

• Anxiety, depression, and mood disturbances
• Exhaustion / Burnout
• Cognitive changes
• Chronic pain
• Immune dysfunction, Autoimmunity
• Fertility + Pre-conception
• Miscarriage and pregnancy loss
• Endometriosis, PCOS, fibroids, cysts
• Menstrual pain and irregular cycles
• Menopause symptoms
• Pelvic organ prolapse
• Gastrointestinal symptoms
• Long covid symptoms

*Please note: My women’s health intake is open to current clients only and the wait list is approximately 3 months out. Please contact me to inquire about this service.

Abdominal, Womb + Pelvic Work

My manual therapy and pelvic healing practice is open to all women of any age, from menarche to elder wise woman care. Opening up the flow of blood, lymph, nervous system communication and organization, and the vital life force pulsing through the ovaries, uterus, and entire pelvic bowl. Creating resonant patterns. Awakening the cellular memory of our female lineage. Women are the creative center of life. She creates, and she is that which she creates. This is the understanding I bring to my care of women.

My pelvic work includes:

• Maya Abdominal Massage
• Holistic Pelvic Care™ created by Tami Lynn Kent, MSPT
• Internal, Bone, organ and soft tissue work
• Medicinal oils and moxa
• Pregnancy loss & grief work
• Cesarean recovery
• Hysterectomy support
• Vaginal and vulvar pain