Happy birthday + Happy International Women’s Day to @blackmidwivesalliance 🎂 Follow and@support their incredible work. • Repost from @blackmidwivesalliance • Three years ago today, National Black Midwives Alliance, a professional ass
Highlighting the work of Black women all month long in honor of #womenshistorymonth • Repost from @frontlinedoulas • Women's History Month is a time to celebrate the Black women and femme Birth Workers in our community! ⁣ ⁣ Black Birthwork
Precious skin to skin time. This simple act of loving kindness promotes bonding and a deep connection between parent and child. It’s so wonderful when Papa’s are open to this experience. Such a surreal moment! • • • &b
Tips for Birth Partners: During prenatal meetings partners are often asking me “what can I do to offer support?” My top tips for offering support during labor include: 🌙 Your presence, showing up 🌙 Knowledge of birth preferences 🌙
Sacred connection and intimacy during birth. This birth story was absolutely incredible. My client’s had set up a massage with me on the mama’s guess date. When I arrived at her house, she greeted me with a huge smile and told me that
Repost from @marchformoms • Call your member of Congress today to let them know you want them to support birthing families via passage of #Momnibus! If you follow us, you probably know that on Monday, Rep. Lauren Underwood (@repunderwood), Con
#MOMNIBUS ACT • Repost from @chanel_porchia • I believe that change for mamas and parents happens a on the community level first then legislatively. In order to make change you have to stand for change and hold folks accountable. I am prou
Born in the caul! After going through weeks of both physical and mental preparation for her birth @lady_rosan gave birth to her son in one of the most special and unique ways. While in labor at the hospital the staff asked @lady_rosan if she’d
Another way to prepare for birth with a #rebozo with this awesome position. Here you can see the beautiful @lady_rosan in a comfortable and supported hands and knees position. Her partner is kneeling behind her as he drapes the rebozo over her hips
Preparation: One of the last births of 2020 that I was fortunate enough to support, was of my dear friend’s @lady_rosan During one of our prenatal appointments, we had the chance to explore some relaxation techniques using the #rebozo A reb