Reproductive Justice
Seed ̴ Birth ̴̴̴ Growth ̴ Transition
Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum Care
(Birth)
Most colonizers would not touch our babies unless it was for profit or other insidious behaviors. In some ways this allowed us to keep some of our rituals. The invention of modern hospitals would eventually happen, pushing out the birth keepers who had taught these same institutions most of what they knew. They would also make it illegal for birth keepers to practice without a license and for mamas to give birth at home.
While there is so much more that could be said about these great tragedies, we would much rather share with you the folks who are continuing the legacy of their ancestors:
Black and Brown
Shafia Monroe
Shafia Monroe Consulting (SMC) provides training, webinars, keynote presentations, motivational speaking, and consulting for health professionals to reach their goals in professional development, cultural competency, and better birth outcomes.
Sista Midwife Production
Sista Midwife Productions is a birth advocacy organization based in New Orleans, LA. We provide education, training and consultations for communities, birth workers and organizations that work with child bearing families.
Sista Midwife Directory
Find a Black Doula/Midwife
Indigemama
Deepen and strengthen your wellness practices with Indigemama: Ancestral Healing womb massage, herbalism, traditional foods, and educational courses.
Saul’s Light
Saul’s Light was founded in 2015 by Kimberly and Aaron Novod after the passing of their son, Saul, in a New Orleans NICU. Today, we partner with hospitals, local organizations, and healthcare professionals to provide resources and support so that no parent endures the NICU experience alone.
Beehive Birth Consulting
Beehive Birth Consulting is owned and operated by RaShaunda Lugrand the Mindset Midwife. Our mission at Beehive Birth is to help you establish healthy reproductive habits, for safe and natural family growth plans that are sustainable.
Divine Birth Wisdom
Divine is a trained Doula, Certified Lactation Counselor and Traditional Herbalist in the Southern Tradition. After years of teaching and sharing herbal knowledge locally, she now brings her lessons online to reach a wider community in the comfort of their own home.
New Orleans Breastfeeding Center
The New Orleans Breastfeeding Center provides high quality, holistic, and evidence-based lactation and infant feeding support to families in the New Orleans metro area and surrounding parishes.
Milky Mama
Milky Mama was created by Krystal Nicole Duhaney, a Registered Nurse, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and breastfeeding mommy of two.
Ancient Song
Ancient Song is a national birth justice organization working to eliminate maternal and infant mortality and morbidity among low-income Black and Latinx people.
Commonsense Childbirth
A non-profit organization was founded in 1998 by Jennie Joseph who has dedicated her life to helping women and families have better birth experiences.
Collectives
Birthmark Doula Collective
Pregnancy, labor, birth & the 4th trimester - the people who are Birthmark Doula Collective offer support, education, services and community during the perinatal year and beyond
Cihuapactli Collective
We came together in 2015 after experiencing a lack of community support for families & womb health. Since then we’ve humbly led the effort in Phoenix to bring Indigenous families together to share knowledge, wisdom, and provide care for those in need.
Birthing Advocacy Doula Training
BADT courses are socially conscious, culturally appropriate, diverse, and action-oriented. We not only train our students to serve their clients using the best practices available, we also provide them with a wide perspective of disparities, inequalities, policies and rights, and prepare them to be active partners in the movement to change birth and reproductive health culture locally, nationally and globally.
Southern Birth Justice
Our vision is to make this care accessible to all peoples- especially Black, Brown, youth, immigrant, indigenous, LGBTQ+, low- income and other marginalized communities. Our mission is to expand Birth Justice by using story telling, popular education, and community organizing to improve access to midwifery and doula care.
Alaska Native Birthworkers Community
The Alaska Native Birthworkers Community seeks to formalize and grow a network of Alaska Native birthworkers who feel confident, competent and grounded in cultural values to support Native birthing families for better health and wellness outcomes for parents and babies, while also advocating for systemic change to better support Alaska Native birthing families.
Mama Sana Vibrant Woman
We are a 501c3 non-profit organization founded in Austin, TX by a collective of Black and Hispanic mamas determined to make a change. We provide culturally resonant and quality prenatal and postnatal care in Austin and Travis County.
Uzazi Village
Through education, support, and advocacy, Uzazi Village works to improve perinatal health in the Kansas City community and around the country. We work every day to build a respectful and supportive healthcare system that fosters equitable and sustainable outcomes in maternal and infant health.
Allies
The Matrona
The Matrona was started in 2001 in Asheville, NC as an educational program for birth caregivers. In 2004 we became a non-profit, The Matrona Foundation, in response to the growing numbers of women and families without reasonable access to childbirth education, childbirth support services and mediation/conflict resolution options.
Innate Traditions
Innate Traditions exists to midwife a cultural shift- where innate wisdom, personal authority and the sanctity of Life are centered and honored.
Regeneration Springs
"I use my extended training in Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy, visceral manipulation, chi nei tsang, craniosacral, diet and herbal remedies and integrate this knowledge into comprehensive massage sessions."
Indie Birth
Radical education and support for modern mamas and birth workers.