I showed this to my PACE students who were teen mamas and inspired one girl to get a doula and midwife. The other girl was able to have her baby natural even past all the doubt. I am so grateful you shared the black and aboriginal indigenous views too
This was Very eye opening to me as a Mixed women who wasn't told about a lot of this History an Pain. As I step back into my Doula work I'm finding a strong calling to learn more about the African American side of Me an my family. So I can share it with my Daughter an Son!!
I have so much gratitude for this video. Thank you 💜 I myself have not birth a child. I have however always provided support to my sister through her pregnancies and my friends. I would come and clean the house, wash the laundry, dishes, sanitize the breast pump and bottles. I’d cook meals for them, care for the baby so they can bathe and sleep. Recently I’ve started my own healing journey. It’s made me realize the importance of the melanated Wombman. I had no idea what a doula was even though I was already actively partaking in such services. I feel a pull to support my fellow Wombman in postnatal Doula support. Thank you for this video 💜✨
While black people decended from slaves (not all blacks are decended from slaves) have had a rough history. The victimization of black people that many blacks are taking on i disagree with. 90-96% of the white population didn't own slaves in the United States. So most of the baby's born to white mother's in the United States were delivered by white midwives. Only the rich benefits from the labor of black people not the general white population. Many rich white men saw a money making opportunity and created doctors and pediatricians and mislead generations of mother's which included both white and black mothers and families and got us to stop holding our babies, called midwives dangerous and got our babies on formula.
Oh, my goodness. This is where I belong too! Thank all of you ladies that found it important enough to share and post this invaluable information. You were truly God-sent to cross my life's journey at exactly this time. I'm in for a Doula at End-of-Life finale.
Thank you for reinspiring me to become a doula or midwife. I teach at PACE CENTER for Girls and will share about Black and African women of color and their contributions to midwifery and births and wet nursing. The Black excellence and cultural community ❤💛💚💚
To become a certified doula do I need to take class ,if the anser is yes send me the website I can register on it , am relly interested to become doula . Thanks
When she ran up and blew them out I caught so much emotions 🥺🥺 I’m finding my way with literally nothing and no one but my three daughters. I know it’s no accident this video played on its own ✨ thank you for this. It’s healing my whole soul. Thank you ✨
Why aren't there more blacks becoming medical professionals as to create hospitals that are black focused?? only curious. If there are far more issues of autoimmune. For as if you have one autoimmune, you are at risk for more. If blacks have a need of more focus than their counterparts, why aren't blacks creating these special hospitals. This doesn't need racism focus it needs extra specialized medical focus for the black race. 6:30, the woman speaking, she is saying she needs special focus as a black women. Serious as serious can be, why aren't the black community going into creating these special places. Even your colleges for this purpose could be a focused care college. Get yourselves together and make it happen!!!
Firstly (I am black) part of the problem is we're only a small portion of the population and not only that not every black person would want to be a medical professional. Not only that even black medical staff are getting misinformation on birth and have never seen physiological birth either. I had a horrible black nurse and a pushy black doctor before so to me it doesn't matter your color when it comes to health care. Black people are also predisposed to certain health conditions that increase our risk of death in childbirth. Part of the issue being that a lot of black women don't breastfeed which again increases problems for our predisposed Diseases like high blood pressure.
Also while black people defended from slaves (not all blacks are defended from slaves) have had a rough history. The victimization of black people that many blacks are taking on i disagree with. 90-96% of the white population didn't own slaves in the United States. So most of the baby's born to white mother's in the United States were delivered by white midwives. Only the rich benefits from the labor of black people not the general population.
Not to mention all of the disparities that black people face. They are less likely to have access to a quality education. Also, when they had "black Wall Street" which consisted of a bunch of black owned businesses, white people burned it down. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems that the black community is still dealing with as a result of slavery, Jim Crow, civil rights movement, the government pushing drugs (cocaine) into their communities to fund wars overseas, etc. They have a lot of catching up to do and they don’t have all of the resources to do it. These are facts. Yes, there are many black people that make it out, do well, become successful, etc., but that’s still a very small subset of their overall population. Even if a group of black medical professionals wanted to do this, the fact of the matter is they would still have a harder time getting a loan or any support for a hospital than their white counterparts.
Speak! I just want to personally say thank you for sharing this was very informational to me and so many others, I appreciate all the information that you took to the time out share on so many levels.
Why is that to become a midwife you gotta go to nursing school tho? Why can’t I just become a CPM and be looked at the same as a CNM. End of the day I still have delivered a baby safe and that’s healthy. My ancestors didn’t have school for this it was natural for them. But soon as another race steps in to take over what my ppl taught them we gotta go to school just to become what we already are! Something we already knew to do!
you def dont need to go to nursing school to become a midwife. only if you want to be a certified nurse midwife... otherwise CPM is a thing. I wish I knew this, I wouldn't have wasted my time in nursing school.
Any tips on how to deal with a baby that keeps waving his hands and waking himself up during the transition stage. Our baby loves and sleeps so quickly in the full swaddle but now we’re trying to transition him he just keeps crying. Help or tips much appreciated!
I can sit and talk with this sistah for hours and I love how she talks over the room and voice rings and it’s calming❤️❤️❤️ She has really gave me that push and I mean that push to become a Doula and be there for my sistahs and let her know I got you and be that advocate!!! So thank you Dr Doula
I'm only 17 but I've been working in a nursery for 3 years and seeing all those new parents come in I realised i want to be more of a part of birth and now I'm watching these videos and I really think I'm meant to do this and become a doula. Thank you for inspiring me!!!
I needed this so bad. As you spoke my spirit lifted. It's like you gave me a hug through your words and your spirit. I cried and it was a release that was life changing. Thank you, thank you, thank you Queen!
I was trying to find evidence based information on validating the benefits of unmedicated birth and stumbled upon this. I just want to say that I have seen the prejudice against black/African American women and anyone who identifies as such. On behalf of every medical professional and every other prejudice american that has ever caused you grief - I am sorry. That's all. I am so sorry.
I'm a nursing student(LPN) and future nurse midwife. I will be beginning my doula certification next year. This video touched my heart so deeply. I have so much respect for the African American doula/midwife community. You are a community of incredible women with roots deeper than the Earth. As a Filipino American woman, I know what it is like to belong to a people whose history has been erased. I've known for a long time that my life purpose was to reconnect with my ancestral roots and to serve and empower ALL women.
If a doula doesn't deliver the baby who does at home? Are only medical gynecologists qualified to deliver babies? Who is the individual who is not a medical doctor that can deliver a baby at home naturally?
Tears flowed as knowledge poured from this QUEEN! I am encouraged to complete my studies as a doula, and am applying to nursing school so that I can become a midwife. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!
