Birth Planning – Genesis Birthing and Living

Natural Birth During COVID-19

Listen to Janice’s story and learn how, with no doula, Janice’s husband supported her through natural birth during the COVID-19 crisis in NEW YORK where the most rigid hospital restrictions exist.
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Mama Bear Awakened: From Adversity to Advocacy

For me…stories are data. So the more people that will tell their story, and the more people that will listen to others tell their stories, I think that’s really when you start to see change; because as much as we need science, we also need lived experience. We need people who are living this day…
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Supernatural Childbirth

“What can come from trusting God wholeheartedly and being obedient to what he says to do?” According to Kariss Farris: humility, submission, and supernatural birthing experiences! Whether we are talking about Kariss going from 6cm dilated to 10cm and pushing in about 15 minutes…her 3 hour labor from start to finish…or her declaration that her…
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Vaginal Hospital Birth: Insight from a BLACK LABOR & DELIVERY NURSE & DOULA

I’m definitely more confident [now] when I tell [patients] ‘you can do this’…and I feel good being able to tell them I did this so it’s possible for [them]…I also know exactly where their head is when they are trying to go natural and they are being induced [with Pitocin].
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Natural Healer, and Doula Tayler Clemm Overcame Generational Trauma To Have Three Home Births

Despite her family’s doubts and fear revolving around her giving birth at home, Tayler Clemm was determined to go against the grain, follow her heart and have three home births.
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Natural Birth Is Birth Without Pain Medication-Genesis Birthing and Living

I rejected the idea that I needed to use drugs and medical interventions during labor. So I chose natural birth. Here I share what natural birth is and why natural birth is the right birth for you too.
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Doula and Founder of Malawi’s House, Shayla Bryant Encourages Black Women To Birth Fearlessly

When it comes to giving birth, Shayla Bryant wants Black women to realize their power and celebrate the joy of bringing life into the world with the absence of fear.
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PCOS and Endometriosis Diagnosis Fueled Raye the Doula To Heal Herself and Help Others

Though diagnosed in 2016 with PCOS, endometriosis, and infertility, Raven—aka Raye the Doula—was determined to maintain her future and her dream of becoming a mother by healing herself and by extending that healing to her community through a career in birthwork.
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From Slavery to Freedom: Birthing On My Own Terms

The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. Fredrick Douglass— “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” I am a Black woman…
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Unassisted Births Are On The Rise During COVID-19: Here’s Why—Genesis Birthing and Living

Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid closures of maternal healthcare facilities, overextended home birth midwives, and a national housing crisis that left us homeless; my husband and I took refuge in natural, home, and unassisted birth in the urban southwest and in the rural southeast. Here’s how. By Shayla Brown The National Problem In…
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A Black Nurse Midwife’s Natural Hospital Birth

Nicole Diggins is a black birth midwife, black birth mother, and a trainer of black doulas. Read and hear her story as a nurse-midwife birthing naturally and ecstatically a hospital.
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What to Expect: Materni-TEA Mixer for New and Expecting Moms

My goals for Materni-TEA: Mixer for New and Expecting Moms are to:
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Here are 5 Creative Ways You Absolutely Can Afford A Doula

If you want to hire a doula, but think you can’t afford one, take a look at this list of 5 creative ways you absolutely can afford a doula!
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