Jua Birthing Services

10/16/2023

Join us every Monday from 1-3p where we gather with other expecting and breastfeeding moms, birthing people, and their partners to provide lactation info, classes, resources, and answer any questions or concerns. All are welcome!

06/19/2022

Dads, we love you, we need, and you are important to us! Enjoy your day!
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06/19/2022

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04/12/2022

Pushing pause to focus education and a few other things. We will see you soon! 😘✌🏽🌻

04/03/2022

Baltimore!

Black Maternal Health Week is fast approaching and we are ecited to announce one of many of the events taking place.

Join us for a night of community building and honoring the ways we mother and center liberation in our parenting and community building. Honoring the beautiful and intentional anthology Revolutionary Mothering we will build together, and reflect on the ways we celebrate our mothering journeys. Come share collective space with other mamas and engage in thought provoking conversation as we work to uplift, build up and support one another along this beautiful journey.

Our panelists are:

Abyssinia Washington, Licensed Professional Counselor

Danielle Torain, Director of Open Society Institute - Baltimore

Kanika Harris, Director of Maternal and Infant Health, Black Women's Health Imperative

Khalilah Harris, Managing Director, K12 Education Policy, Center for American Progress

Nikki Osei-Barret, Owner of Osei PR and Co-Founder of District Motherheud

This event is part of the official Black Maternal Health Week events, which was founded by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance. This year marks the fifth year anniversary of the Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW) campaign.

The campaign and activities for Black Maternal Health Week serve to amplify the voices of Black Mamas and center the values and traditions of the reproductive and birth justice movements. Activities during BMHW are rooted in human rights, reproductive justice, and birth justice frameworks.

04/02/2022

Hey Sunshine,

Spring is here, and we are finally stepping out into the sun to meet up with you! Starting April 14th Jua will be hosting the Mama Meet up Sessions for all Mamas. We will have guest speakers, round table discussions, and learning opportunities for everyone. Our goal is to empower, cultivate, and support mothers beyond what they ever thought was possible.

In our first meet up, we will introduce our host Kelly aka Kelz the Jua Doula.

Slots will fill up fast, RSVP today as space is limited for more intimate dialog.

If you would like to be a guest speaker, or if you have a topic that you would like to discuss, please feel free to contact us.

You can register, contact us, or book a consultation on our website or the link in the bio:

https://www.juabirthingservices.com/events

04/02/2022

Thanks Milky Mama, LLC for providing facts and a prep plan, nutrition throughout pregnancy is important, but I can't stress enough how much snacks while breastfeeding is essential. If you don't remember, you body surely will!

We can help with meal prepping snacks, breakfast, and quick/easy meals for dinner.

Let us know how we can help!

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Did you know on average a breastfeeding mom needs approximately an additional 500 calories per day?

Most moms notice they are hungrier when they are on their breastfeeding journey. It is important to listen to your body and fuel it with foods that will keep your energy level up.

SAVE this list for later to refer back to!

03/11/2022

We are live!!!

03/10/2022

Set your alarms for 10am!

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03/01/2022

Every Day, Every Client, and Every Birth! We want to make our history with our Mamas! Your pregnancy and birth will be one event that you will want to look back on to reminisce about how beautiful it was. Let us help you make it memorable!
Contact us to schedule a consultation!

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02/20/2022

We are accepting new clients!!
It’s never to early to choose a doula to support you through pregnancy.
Our plans include:

🌻 1 free consultation 🌻 2 Prenatal Sessions 🌻 Labor Support 🌻 2-4 hours of Postpartum Support
🌻 and More

02/19/2022

Looking to help more families with good old traditional support.

I have seen some mothers that can’t even get a good meal in because there are so many other things to be done.

Let me help you Mama! My services include:

🌻Baby Laundry
🌻Meal Prep
🌻Bottle Cleaning
🌻Organizing/Light Cleaning of baby room
🌻And a couple other things!

Contact us today!!
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02/19/2022

Kelz the Jua Doula here,
I am a full spectrum doula and certified breastfeeding specialist specializing in Postpartum and Nanny support. I love helping parents navigate parenthood, providing tips from my own experiences and coaching from a doula perspective. Some families just need an extra pair of hands that can help relieve some stress and anxiety that comes from trying to get it all done. We are not super heroes, we are human!

Finding a reasonably priced and experienced professional to help is not hard to find...I am here!

I love what I doula!

My services include assistance with the following:

• Light laundry

• Basic meal prep

• Organization/light cleaning of children rooms

• Bottle cleaning/prep

• Light dish duty

• and more...

Please see my certifications below:

🌻Doula Trainings International Certified

🌻 CPR certified

🌻Certified Breastfeeding Specialist

🌻 Postpartum Support

🌻 Labor Support

🌻 Nanny Services

JUA LLC is a certified and insured Doula Service

Contact me today!
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02/06/2022

JBS believes that Self Care is essential for all parents. Everyone needs time aways from the demands and unconscious guilt of parenthood. Let us help you plan out what this looks like in one of our mini postpartum planning sessions.

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A solo grocery trip is great, but it's not self-care for moms. Here are ways to help achieve self-care, and some products that help, too.

01/31/2022

Congrats Riri and Rocky!!!

01/25/2022

Please take a moment to understand why Doulas are so essential. Doulas will be the person that stands in the gap. Slows down the pace when you don’t have the words. To advocate for you when all the health professionals are doing the job that they have been trained to do but are leaving your feeling, needs, and wants out of the equation.

Unbiased care and compassion are apart of the training, but we are often seeing that it’s being eliminated for various reason.

Hey Mama, You can bring your support with you! Let us help you by standing in the gap and holding space for you.

Thanks Birth Uprising for such an eye opening and beautifully written post.

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There’s a huge disconnect in medicine, and mothers are paying the price.

So many people go into hospital work (I’m not going to call it health care, because it’s not about health) truly wanting to help people. They see their profession as one of healing, where they take something broken and nurture it back to health. And medicine can be that if, for example, you’ve been in a serious accident. But birth is a natural, physiological process, not an accident or something to fix.

Over time so many hospital staff get worn down - they’re overworked, under-appreciated, and their facilities are under-staffed. They have high student loan debt from their education, and can’t afford to leave their position, even if it’s sucking the life out of them. They started out with good intentions, but have become disillusioned along the way. The patients they once saw as people deserving of compassion and true care, become numbers, become just a job.

Birth is one of the most important and life-changing events that ever happens to a woman. Even if a c-section becomes necessary, it doesn’t have to be a cold, callous procedure where the woman giving birth is afraid, crying, and not even acknowledged. No one should ever be treated this way. It costs no more time or money to look at someone as a person rather than a case number and to ease their fears.

01/23/2022

Thanks for providing the research .ruddle.ibclc!!!
Lots of moms believe that their baby is going to sleep all night by six month! Ha!! We should normalize telling the truth birthworkers! Our babies should be waking up for feedings at night. Let’s talk about how we can make this work in your life Mama. Let’s stop trying to fit baby into our schedules and normalize slowing down our lives for babies just a little. 😘🌻✌🏽

01/21/2022

You have every right to decline, walk out, and find a new provider. PERIOD!!!

Let’s us know if you need help finding one.

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Your cervix is not a crystal ball, & cervical checks prior to labor are useless.

If you’re treated like the woman in this quote PLEASE find a new provider. Please.

Unless you are about to be induced, there is no reason to check your dilation prior to labor (and there’s no real reason when you’re in labor as well, but that’s another story).

You could not be dilated at all one minute, and have your baby an hour later. Or you could progress from 1 to 5 centimeters in an hour, and then your labor could “stall”. No two births are the same.

Cervical checks can’t predict the future, but here’s what they CAN DO…

🔆 Introduce bacteria into your body, increasing your likelihood of infection

🔆 Make you feel inadequate

🔆 Decrease your confidence in your body

🔆 Increase the likelihood that your provider will suggest interventions

🔆 Increase the likelihood that you will agree to interventions because you’re feeling pressured.