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Fall Mood: On A Dark September Morning I Birthed a Brown Baby and Telling This Story Is Giving My Family Peace
Read more: Fall Mood: On A Dark September Morning I Birthed a Brown Baby and Telling This Story Is Giving My Family PeaceThis fall blew in like a mighty rushing wind–kind of how my 5th pregnancy unfolded. The times were muddy, but clouded in a fog of oxytocin and birth, we saw bounty and celebrated instead. We invite you to re-reminisce with us this fall.
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Doula and Founder of Malawi’s House, Shayla Bryant Encourages Black Women To Birth Fearlessly
Read more: Doula and Founder of Malawi’s House, Shayla Bryant Encourages Black Women To Birth FearlesslyWhen 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
Read more: PCOS and Endometriosis Diagnosis Fueled Raye the Doula To Heal Herself and Help OthersThough 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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Unassisted Births Are On The Rise During COVID-19: Here’s Why—Genesis Birthing and Living
Read more: Unassisted Births Are On The Rise During COVID-19: Here’s Why—Genesis Birthing and LivingFaced 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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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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Breast is Blessed
Read more: Breast is BlessedBy Shayla Brown by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above,blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. Genesis 49:25 Breast is best. Yes. But furthermore, I suggest: That our Breasts on our chests,…
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What to Expect: Materni-TEA Mixer for New and Expecting Moms
Read more: What to Expect: Materni-TEA Mixer for New and Expecting MomsMy goals for Materni-TEA: Mixer for New and Expecting Moms are to:
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Believe and You WILL Achieve: 1 Mom’s Guide to a Natural Childbirth
Read more: Believe and You WILL Achieve: 1 Mom’s Guide to a Natural Childbirth“Labor is not a medical emergency”, that’s what I kept telling myself before I gave birth. It was a phrase my doula extended to me…
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