Earth's Natural Touch: Birth Care & Beyond

05/22/2026

May 22 is National Preeclampsia Awareness Day 💜 Know the signs. Speak up. Save lives.

05/15/2026

The HHC annual Maternal Health Conference registration has opened!

Join us for Embracing Birthing Heritage: Elevating Latino, Indigenous, and African-American Traditional Knowledge, a powerful conference exploring the cultural and historical foundations of childbirth practices and how traditional wisdom can help shape more equitable maternal health systems today.

This conference will feature nationally recognized leaders, scholars, practitioners, storytellers, and advocates committed to advancing culturally responsive maternal health approaches and reducing disparities in care.

Featured speakers include:
✨ Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, Founder & President of the National Birth Equity Collaborative
✨ SciHonor Devotion, CPM Founder of Earth’s Natural Touch: Birth Care & Beyond
✨ Madeline Hutchins, Mohegan Storyteller & Scholar
✨ Dr. Isabel Córdova, historian and author of Pushing in Silence
✨ Moderator Bertha Coombs, public health leader and maternal health advocate

Register today: https://fundraise.givesmart.com/e/zEGD1w?vid=1qfu26

The HHC annual Maternal Health Conference registration has opened!

Join us for Embracing Birthing Heritage: Elevating Latino, Indigenous, and African-American Traditional Knowledge, a powerful conference exploring the cultural and historical foundations of childbirth practices and how traditional wisdom can help shape more equitable maternal health systems today.

This conference will feature nationally recognized leaders, scholars, practitioners, storytellers, and advocates committed to advancing culturally responsive maternal health approaches and reducing disparities in care.

Featured speakers include:
✨ Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, Founder & President of the National Birth Equity Collaborative
✨ SciHonor Devotion, Founder of Earth’s Natural Touch: Birth Care & Beyond
✨ Madeline Hutchins, Mohegan Storyteller & Scholar
✨ Dr. Isabel Córdova, historian and author of Pushing in Silence
✨ Moderator Bertha Coombs, public health leader and maternal health advocate

Register today: https://fundraise.givesmart.com/e/zEGD1w?vid=1qfu26

05/15/2026

No matter where you are in the world, or where you are in your breastfeeding journey, join us at the weekly Mocha Milkshake Café, a FREE Virtual Breastfeeding Support Group. This is a safe, supportive space to learn, share, and decompress with other parents and our ENT birth and lactation professionals about breastfeeding.

See you every Saturday at 10am! FREE Admission! All you pay is your kindness.

💜🌻Providing Free Education and Support to Breastfeeding Families for more than 5 years! 🌻💜

Mocha Milkshake Café Registration Link in Bio or
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This breastfeeding support group is designed to fill in the gap and provide much needed breastfeeding support to black and brown families. If you don't identify as being black or brown and still require lactation support, please email us at mochamilkshakecafe@gmail.com with the subject title "Non-bi...

05/05/2026

Today, on International Day of the Midwife 2026, I am holding deep gratitude for the midwives who have walked alongside me on this journey.

Too many women are still dying from preventable causes during pregnancy and birth. Too many babies are struggling. We know that skilled care before, during, and after birth saves lives, and midwives are uniquely positioned to provide that care. Why are we still investing in systems that were never built to care about us?

Midwives, OUR Midwives, were systemically and very intentionally pushed out and criminalized. And although we have survived, the truth is, the world is short at least one million midwives.

That is why I am deeply committed not only to serving families but also to strengthening the next generation of midwives. We cannot close this gap without mentorship, community, and intentional investment in those coming behind us.

When will this country submit to the fact that other industrialized countries do better than we do in infant and maternal health because they use midwives, not OB/GYN obstetric surgeons to care for normal pregnancies?

We cannot wait for businesses like hospitals and insurance companies to tell us what we already know. Why would they?

Midwives save lives. It's proven globally, and we are behind. It's time to catch up and go beyond!

05/02/2026

Peace Featured Doulas,

Please join us on Monday for our monthly meeting. May 4, 2026 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm. This month's theme is: Considering Safety, Ethics & Risk: Protecting Clients & Ourselves.

Zoom Invites have been sent out via email ! See y'all there💜

04/24/2026

Peace Cohort 9 and Featured Doulas,

Our 4th study hall facilitated by Cohort 9 will be held this upcoming Tuesday 4/28 at 5:00pm via zoom. It will be led by Student Doula Zakiya. Please join if you are available to connect. The zoom link has already been sent out via email. As a reminder, this is continuing education for Featured Doulas.

The topic is: Doulas Supporting Black Mothers with Gestational Diabetes

04/22/2026

“The Power of Nurses” is not just in clinical skill. It is in your presence, intuition, and advocacy.

To our ENT doulas who have stepped into Labor & Delivery as nurses, you carry your training, your heart, and your commitment to families into every birth room and on every shift.

We are deeply proud of the way you bridge worlds by holding space, speaking up, and bringing compassionate, person-centered care into hospital settings where it is so needed.

You bring community-centered care into clinical rooms, and that matters more than words can hold.
You didn’t leave doula work behind. You expanded it. 🤎 Your work is changing outcomes. Your presence matters.

We know that is not always easy. We know you get pushback when you speak up. And we know you can’t help yourselves. You are TRUE advocates for families.

Your sisters at Earth’s Natural Touch: Birth Care & Beyond are incredibly proud of you for stepping into these roles and transforming birth spaces from within. We knew you would. 💜

04/18/2026

Caring about Black Maternal Health does not end when Black Maternal Health Week ends. Justice and Joy never ends. Shout out to our Doulas & Perinatal Health Advocates at Earth's Natural Touch: Birth Care & Beyond, inc. 💜 and all the other Birth Professionals who do this EVERY day. ✊🏽 Shout out to the Black midwives who turn tables over and shake things up. ✊🏽 Shout out to the Black midwives who support learning midwives on their path. ✊🏽 Shout out to the Black midwives who are learning to remember to care for themselves while they care for others. ✊🏽 Shout out to the Black midwives who have sacrificed and lost so much, but also gained this beautiful life of a midwife. ✊🏽 Shout out to the Black midwives who show up in spaces outside of the birth room to make change, even if it's uncomfortable. ✊🏽 Shout out to the Black midwives who understand the value of true community. ✊🏽 Shout out to the Black midwives who understand the mission and are on it. ✊🏽

"You will be held and provided for because you will be supporting the community", Midwife Kimberly Durdin at once said this to me, and I hold it as a reminder when things get tough. 💜

There is no mystery. If we don't do it for ourselves and each other, it won't be done. ✊🏽

Support Black Midwives!!! ✊🏽

Thank you Kandice for the shirt. Get Yours and more: https://www.bonfire.com/store/rooted-beginnings-birth-merch/

04/16/2026

This week we continue celebrate and honor Black Maternal Health Week. ✊🏾💜

“This is about care. Addressing bias, inequity and access to support”

04/16/2026

We have been training ENT Interdisciplinary Doulas for 10 YEARS!

Our 10th cohort started this week, during Black Maternal Health Week 2026!

Our doulas have profoundly impacted countless families through the care they provide.

Doulas have benefited from the advocacy and policy work that we have done.

And now, a new group of doulas is rising with us during Black Maternal Health Week!

To our newest students and all of our graduates, you have answered the call to do this purpose-driven work, which is rooted in advocacy, love, dignity, liberation, respect, knowledge, justice, and joy.

We appreciate you!

Let’s continue to improve Black Maternal and Infant Health! Together we go far!

04/14/2026

Peace Cohort 9 and Featured Doulas,

Our 3rd study hall facilitated by Cohort 9 will be held this Wednesday 4/15 at 6:00pm via zoom. It will be led by Student Doula Lex. Please join if you are available to connect. The zoom link has already been sent to emails. As a reminder, this is continuing education for Featured Doulas.

The topic is: Doula and Lactation Support for the Gender Non-Conforming: How to Assist Trans and Non-Binary Parents Through Birth and Postpartum