From when I can remember I've always had a connection with babies and pregnant mothers. I would always volunteer working in the nursery at the community gatherings I attended as a teenager, and felt the need to check in on expecting mothers to make sure they felt comfortable.

Now a mother of two, whom I had at 29 weeks gestation, my traumatic experiences taught me the other side of birth and the challenges many mothers face postpartum with a child in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). It sparked my interest in understanding birth, breastfeeding, and postpartum care.

With the high rate of maternal and childbirth disparities specifically to black women in our current society, I felt a huge need in supporting mothers through their journeys into motherhood and through the beginning stages of motherhood. I hope to help mothers birth abundantly by finding the power in themselves to birth abundantly into motherhood, physically, holistically, and emotionally.

My Birth Story

Blessed to have my life and two healthy children after what I endured birthing my two girls. Both my baby girls were born prematurely at 29 weeks at 1 pound 6 ounces. I experienced infant restricted growth at 26 weeks which really took me for a spin. Thinking I would have a doula and natural birth without any pain medication went completely out the door once I was warned if they didn’t intervene the baby could die. Sitting in the hospital room with the surgical team prepping for my emergency c section, while I sat in the labor and delivery room with a heart doppler beeping loudly to keep track of the babies heart rate had me at the highest point of stress. Not knowing if my baby would survive, or if I would endure surgery had me so scared and uncomfortable. I was willing to discharge myself out of the hospital, because I felt the way the hospital was pressuring me to birth my baby so soon was so rushed and invasive to what I envisioned my birth story would look like. Read More