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View original blogpost: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/birthworker-baes"Every other culture has no problem or shame in unifying and promoting their people. I feel like it's my duty and responsibility to uplift my people, m
View the original blogpost: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/aysen-adelle-farag"When you take something away from its ceremonial use & spiritual significance, it can no longer feed your soul & it turns into something that is
View the original blogpost: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/shayla-brown"If you say a lie enough times, people will believe it's the truth. You will be out here thinking and operating inside of lies. [Homebirth] is not new,
View original blogpost: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/our-mothers-light"Every baby that is born comes in with its own blessings and its own bag that's going to help them accomplish their destiny in this life. | We've acc
View original blog post: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/christina-jemine"It's like rhythm, it's very rhythmic for me... like someone's playing the piano for me. If I'm in the birth room it's almost like I can hear music an
View original post at: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/christa-fatoumata-sylla"The awareness of my body definitely had a lot to do with my experience with homebirth. [My midwife] would always bring me back to ME... bringing
View the original blogpost at: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/yael-b-yisrael"Our mores and cultural norms are not just nice or cute. Our ancestral science and indigenous customs were encoded with life saving science, ritua
View original post: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/brittany-tru-kellman"You're piecing [the call to birthwork] together... How do you piece together the whiteness that you are seeing with the Blackness that's in you and ma
View original post: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/samantha-olivia-griffin"I want us to get to a place where we are no longer working from lack in ourselves or assuming lack in each other, that's what I want and that is cr
View original post at http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/candace-smith"[My midwife] didn't touch me unless it was welcomed. I loved the hands off thing... [I asked], 'What are your thoughts on just leaving me alone... being t
#DrDoula #BlackBirth #SankofaBirth #IAmTheAnswer #WeSaveOurselves #WeBuildLegacy Dr. Doula SPEAKS about the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, HOW, and WHY of what it means to be a PROTECTOR of Black women.Learn ways to become a PROTECTOR at www.DrDoul
View the original post at: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/coming-home-to-get-back-to-the-healing-work-of-birth-for-black-families"Why do we have to live in states of deficiency...? We can live abundantly, but the way our s
View the original post at: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/reigniting-a-path-to-connection-for-wise-african-women-throughout-the-diaspora"The medical system has changed women. We feel like we can control everything and we c
View the original post at: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/advocating-for-vbac-moms-and-helping-pregnant-moms-experience-pregnancy-without-fear"There's so much that we've lost and we are now regaining. There's so much we've
See the original blogpost at: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herst... "Ultimately, if we are going to be reclaiming the systems that our people have created, there is no equivalent role called “doula.” That role is wrapped up in mother, gran
See the original blogpost: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herst... "Find other women who have given birth [at home]... Women around the world have been doing it for years... giving birth without a hospital. They’re doing it right now. You ha
To see the original post on the Birth HERstory Blog, visit: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herst..."[I want to] bring the wisdom of the grandmothers [abuelas] into modern birth... It's not about being 'the leader'. For me, it's about legacy,
"When we try to put all of our energy and time toward unraveling white issues, [we're] not gonna really deal with the Black issues. You need to heal yourself... learn your people, your culture. Learn what fits you. You are gonna be chasing some
View the the Birth HERstory blogpost about Brandi Jordan here: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herst..."Show up as YOU. Take that foundation [and] run with it, but show up to every client as yourself because that's the thing that's going to p
View the blogpost here: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herst..."You can never, ever, ever be excellent and comfortable. Excellence and comfort do not equate. If you think [that by] being comfortable, excellence is gonna come... Honey, I'm te
View the original post at drdoula.com/aa-birth-herstory-traditions/from-being-the-only-black-woman-in-the-room-to-breaking-down-walls-in-birth-for-black-women "The knowledge... it's in you. It really is. Do what God has called you to do and d
View the original post at this link: http://www.drdoula.com/aa-birth-herst... "I could not go back to accepting everything [they told] me, because I broke out of that paradigm and I saw another way... When you don't know another way, you think
Dr. Doula SPEAKS w/ Stephanie Mitchell, Use YOUR SUPERPOWER 2 Change Birth & Disrupt a Broken System
INCOMING!!! That is what I think every time I see a notification that @Doctor_Midwife is live on Instagram. I told her once, "I must admit... I LOVE your disappearing IG LIVES... Everytime I think about it, I think to myself, "This woman blows
While Black women represent an educated demographic within society, many are entering birth work from a call or a heart or spiritual place. I hear from women frequently that are responding to "a call" to enter birth work as a result of the way
In this blogpost, Christy is sharing her birth stories. She has very dynamic birth stories - from the hospital to a driveway to the comfort of her own home. And I believe they will provide additional insights for those who are seeking to know m
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