In Joie's Arms Birth Doula Services

06/11/2024

Please share with expectant fathers. Happening this weekend!

This weekend is all about dads and their role in pregnancy and birth. We have an IG Live on Friday and in person training in Atlanta on Saturday!

Link to register for Saturday: https://www.sistersong.net/bjprogramming

04/19/2024

12/16/2023

08/10/2023

How are we showing up?

Who can provide postpartum support, loss processing, and healing?

Mental health support?

Is there a GoFundMe or something we can donate to?

Food resources? Meal train?

I’m unfortunately not surprised, this is the second tragically, negligent infant loss from this hospital ‘that we know of’ this year. Awareness is great, but I’m about doing so let’s do. How are we ensuring this doesn’t happen to another family again? Let me know!

DM or email: Chanel.Stryker-boykin@hmhbga.org

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04/29/2023

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12/26/2022

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from my Joieful Family, to yours! 🥰✨🎄Eric Boykin Jr.

12/15/2022

The midwifery class in 1938, Anna Duncan was the senior member with forty- two years in service. Another West Savannah midwife attending the class was Katie Gibbs ofScarborough Street. Front row, from left to right, Maggie Whitfield, Mary Lou Irving, Sara Mars, Amelia Hargraves, janie Fields. Second row, Georgia Barrow, Anna Duncan, Ida Collins, Mattie Cuyler, Lucy King, and Katie Gibbs.

11/25/2022

Overfilled with Gratitude and Joie unspeakable ✨🤞🏾😘

11/18/2022

Huge thanks to my Joieful mama and her husband for contributing to this story 💜😘

We know the statistics, we don’t have to keep telling the story, but if it’ll get them the “data” and “evidence” they need to do something…I’ll keep talking and working.

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In most hospitals, labor and delivery is a one-stop shop. Care for mothers typically ends after birth.

Meanwhile, Black mothers in Georgia die three times more often from pregnancy-related causes compared to white mothers. Most of those deaths happen within the first year after a baby is born.

That’s why doulas like Chanel Stryker-Boykin support families at home, during and after pregnancy, something specialists such as OB-GYNs and certified nurse midwives aren’t really trained to do.

As certified birth support workers, a doula’s main priority is advocating for the wishes and health of the mother.

“Doulas are not going to be able to change the systems that were created hundreds of years ago," Stryker-Boykin said. "But what we can do is we can impact these lives individually.”