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Natural Birth During COVID-19
Read more: Natural Birth During COVID-19Listen 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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Vaginal Hospital Birth: Insight from a BLACK LABOR & DELIVERY NURSE & DOULA
Read more: Vaginal Hospital Birth: Insight from a BLACK LABOR & DELIVERY NURSE & DOULAI’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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From Slavery to Freedom: Birthing On My Own Terms
Read more: From Slavery to Freedom: Birthing On My Own TermsThe 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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A Black Nurse Midwife’s Natural Hospital Birth
Read more: A Black Nurse Midwife’s Natural Hospital BirthNicole 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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Envision Health: Creative Expression Workshop
Read more: Envision Health: Creative Expression WorkshopSaturday, January 25, local Phoenix organization, Our Mothers and Us (OMUS) held its first event of 2020. The event entitled; Envision Health: Creative Expression Workshop; is the brainchild of OMUS founder and Arizona native, Bianca Comer. The event is “designed to encourage knowledge-sharing, fellowship, self-advocacy, and self-care to ensure healthy pregnancies and transitions into parenting.”…
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