Bridge Midwifery

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Are you pregnant and looking for holistic childbirth support? Do you dream of giving birth on your own terms? Do you believe that birth should be a sacred and safe space?

Childbirth Education is for anyone who wants to be prepared and well-informed about labor, birth and the postpartum period. Whether you are a first time parent and or an experienced one, childbirth education could be helpful to you and your family.

Join Courageous Birth: Holistic Childbirth Education for essential information and resources needed to have an empowered birth. This evidence-based online class will cover:

- Self-care in the 3rd trimester and preparing your mind, body and spirit for labor
- The stages of labor
- Labor management and medical interventions
- Comfort measures and support in labor
- Developing birth and contingency plans
- Self-advocacy tools
- Identifying our community of support
- Postpartum and infant feeding resources
- Healthy nutrition and herbal support for pregnancy, birth and postpartum
- The impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy, birth and postpartum care

Saturdays, April 17th & April 24th from 10-2pm, via Zoom

Registration: https://linktr.ee/TheBloomCollective

For registration details:

https://linktr.ee/TheBloomCollective

Join us to discuss having "the talk" with the young people in your life. Participants will learn about developmental milestones, practice actually having the conversation in a safe space, examine beliefs that keep us from having the conversation, and be given tons of resources and guidance to continue having the conversations for years to come.

This workshop is for parents, youth serving adults, and caretakers to equip and empower them to have conversations about s*x with the young people, of all ages, in their lives. Join us for group activities and practice in having the important courageous conversations!

http://thebloomcollectivebaltimore.eventbrite.com/

Support Haitian midwives who provide essential care to pregnant women and families. with
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Midwives save lives. Help save a Haitian midwife’s life. They are in dire need of PPE!! This campaign appeal ends in 5 days (DONATE link in bio). Please help us reach our goal. Together we can help keep birth safer in Haiti by decreasing the rampant spread of COVID.

https://www.globalgiving.org/microprojects/covid-19-midwives-on-the-front-line-saving-lives/

We hold everything. Pain, joy, hope, liberation. Truly honored to be a part of this phenomenal collective. Join us on Sunday!

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We are Black Mamas in Baltimore. We are cis, trans, gender non-binary and disabled. We identify as mothers, parents, aunties, grandmothers, sister friends and caretakers. By blood and by love we nurture our communities with ancestral knowing and fervor. We are enough!

In a world that is finally paying attention to state violence against Black people in the form of police brutality, and economic, health and educational inequities, we continue to center justice and liberation. We call on our neighbors and elected officials to sign on and advance our call to action for Black liberation in the City of Baltimore. We choose to stand in our power along with our partners, our children and our communities. We choose art. We choose joy. We choose love. We choose freedom. We are enough!

Join us on Sunday, July 5, 2020 with our children, families and community! Child centered activities will be provided by Orita’s Cross Freedom School. Come be in community to help build Baltimore’s Black policy agenda as we center justice & liberation.

Masks and appropriate distance are requested for the safety of our families. Please respect the space and others around you. Masks and sanitizer will be available during the assembly until supplies run out.

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Coming up Monday 5/11, 5/18 & 5/25

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-bloom-collective-25486671535

Looking for holistic childbirth support? Join Stephanie Etienne for Courageous Birth: Holistic Childbirth Education and get the essential tools and support to help you with an empowered birth.

This is a condensed online session to help you and your family prepare for an informed and grounded birth experience.
This holistic and evidence-based online class will cover:

- The impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy, birth and infant feeding

- The 3rd trimester and preparing your mind, body and spirit for labor

- Creating a birth plan and contingency plans

- The stages of labor

- Labor management and medical interventions

- Comfort measures in labor

- Postpartum resources

This class is geared for folks who are going to be giving birth in the time of Covid-19 and beyond. This intimate gathering is not intended to be a training/workshop for birthworkers to gain more tools and insights.

I hope my story can help someone on the path to midwifery. 🖤

Nelson Mandela said courage is not the absence of fear but action in the face of it. Birthing families are living in some fearful times. We all are. Courage is possible.

The National Association to Advance Black Birth has developed a bill of rights promoting empowered birth and birth justice. Check it out.