Consultations with Friends and Family
In these virtual sessions we discuss how to give full spectrum support to loved ones.
There will be education and details about the intricacies of this experience, information on how restore birth and postpartum to a community event as it was meant to be. We will discuss long term healing and care, food, cleaning, and emotional support.
We will also discuss how to decide which roles each love one could take on so that no one ever feels like they need to do it all. But rather, feels the honor to be included in this experience, and the opportunity to see a care model shown to them that hopefully they can feel comfortable asking for themselves in the future as their own age, family, health, and ability ebbs and expands.
Love ones include everyone - partners, friends, extended family, etc.
Mostly in these sessions I’ve worked with partners, soon to be grandparents, close friends, and siblings of the pregnant or postpartum person.
Consultations with medical staff/birth workers
In these virtual we will discuss how to better listen, advocate for, and guide clients/patients. How they as workers can address their own biases, and understand the interconnectedness of birth/postpartum with race, ethnicity, culture, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, disability, etc.
We will discuss goals they can make as providers to leverage their privilege in birth spaces, how to better prepare patients/clients for postpartum and better monitor all clients but especially those with marginalized backgrounds that face higher complication risks in postpartum.
And we discuss how providers can center and uplift the parents and their communities in this experience and de-center the mentality, language, and lens of the white supremacist created medical industrial complex.
In these sessions i work with OB’s, Midwives (both hospital midwives and homebirth midwives), Pediatricians, Doula’s, those that don’t use the title of Doula and prefer to be called Birth Workers, Nurses, Medical Interns, Pelvic Floor Therapists, Lactation Consultants, CPS workers, Physical Therapists, Mental Health Therapists, Etc.
Education on these topics should be for any worker that exists in any field that serves babies, children, and parents - particularly those in early postpartum.