Tag Archive for: Doula

CALL: What We Are Talking About This Week
Notes from our weekly Changemakers Alliance newsletter

Revisiting the Healthy Start Act
Of 23 people eligible for the program so far, four have been approved.

Breathing In and Out: Another Era of Care
What could have been, had the biomedical model not been held up as the only legitimate pathway to healing?

Real-World Solutions to Adverse Childhood Experiences
More than half of all Minnesotans have had one or more ACEs, according to the most recent Minnesota Department of Health study.

VIEW: Prioritizing Black Mothers
When we say we cannot afford quality child care for all, culturally supportive birth options, and fair housing, we are being disingenuous. What we are saying is that we prefer to spend the money in other ways.

Reform Within Shakopee Women’s Prison
From 2013 to 2020, women imprisoned while pregnant had not committed a new crime — 77 percent had been incarcerated for a technical violation, such as violating parole by not checking in with a probation officer.

In the News: January 2020
Increase in Midwife Care Could Result in Savings
Childbirth…

Failing Mothers and Children
“For Black women in America, an inescapable atmosphere of societal and systemic racism can create a kind of toxic physiological stress resulting in conditions, including hypertension and pre-eclampsia, that lead directly to higher rates of infant and maternal death.” — Linda Villarosa

The Caretakers of SPIRAL Collective
SPIRAL Collective teammates in front of the now-closed Cafe…

Culturally competent midwifery
Jennifer Almanza has become the midwife she once looked for. "Our womb as female is connected to an entire line, an entire collective female body."

What a doula can do
For expectant mothers behind bars, Isis Rising offers much-needed support. "I absolutely believe that every single woman, regardless of her place in life or the choices she made, has the right to have a healthy, positive birth experience for herself and for her baby."