Empowered Doula Services

06/02/2025

🌿 Support My Midwifery Journey 🌿

Becoming a Certified Professional Midwife isn’t just my calling—it’s a commitment to restoring sacred, community-based care. Just like a baby registry prepares families for birth, this Midwifery Wishlist helps prepare me to serve life at its beginning.

Your support helps me gather essential tools for hands-on learning and client care, including:
🩺 Blood pressure cuff + stethoscope
👂🏾 Fetoscope + doppler
👜 Travel bags for home visits
🌸 Birth kit & holistic care supplies

📲 Visit the link in here : https://mywishlist.online/w/7wwh4w/alexiss-wishlist?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwKquYZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp_l68v8mRrRmPcN3eqL1PSUEXeSCjoNpFp5fuK7LCbWc7W0u1bHsPaV2NFwo_aem_Q9dXUDCu4NdFsJBi5W-uPw

Every gift, share, and prayer brings me one step closer to uplifting birthwork rooted in culture, tradition, and healing. Thank you, village 💛

05/30/2025

🌿 Stay Connected with Empowered Doula Services! 🌿

Curious about how to work with me, support my midwifery journey, or learn more about what I offer as a community-rooted birthworker?

✨ Whether you’re an expecting family, aspiring doula, or someone passionate about Black maternal health—this link has everything you need to stay connected and get involved!

From doula mentorship and client care to updates on my path to becoming Knoxville’s first Black CPM Midwife, it’s all here:

🔗 https://linktr.ee/doulaalexis

📌 Bookmark, share, and stand with this sacred work rooted in community, justice, and ancestral birthwork.

Holistic Birth Doula | Student Midwife | Maternal Health Advocate

05/11/2025

Carrying each of you was the beginning of becoming me.

Through every kick, craving, and contraction — I was transformed.
Today, I honor the journey, the sacrifices, and the sacred bond that made me a mother.
Happy Mother’s Day to every mama birthing love into this world — in body, in spirit, and in legacy💗💐

04/23/2025

Come and meet other moms of the BIPOC community in a safe environment filled with love, shared experiences, and a desire to build community together. Moms to be are welcomed!

04/17/2025

Closing out Black Maternal Health Week with deep gratitude and powerful connection🤲🏾✨

This past weekend, I co-curating the 3rd Annual Black Maternal Health Conference with my community partner, Femeika Elliott-

These photos reflect more than just moments — they capture the movement.

From tabling and fundraising to support my journey to becoming the first Black CPM midwife in Knoxville, to building relationships rooted in trust, advocacy, and collective care — I showed up freshly postpartum with purpose in my heart.

Being in community with other birth workers, advocates, and families reminded me why we do this work. The barriers are real, but so is our resilience👏🏾👏🏾

Thank you to everyone who stopped by my table, asked questions, donated, and poured into this vision. Thank you for those who showed up at the conference-

Let’s keep the momentum going. Black birth is sacred. Our lives, stories, and traditions matter — and we will continue to show up and protect them❤️

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04/11/2025

It’s Black Maternal Health Week ❗️

This week, we honor the strength, resilience, and sacred legacy of Black birthing people—while confronting the systemic injustices that continue to harm us.

Black women are still 3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes. These are not just statistics—they are lived realities rooted in racism, neglect, and a healthcare system that too often silences our voices.

At Empowered Birth & Midwifery Services, we’re changing the narrative. We’re restoring trust, reclaiming tradition, and building a future where culturally grounded, client-led care is the norm—not the exception.

As the first Black CPM in training for Knoxville & East TN, Alexis is not only making history—she’s making space for justice, healing, and empowered birth.

Because our births matter. Our lives matter. Our futures matter.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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04/11/2025

BLACK DOULA DAY❗️👏🏾

Today we honor the legacy, love, and labor of Black doulas—past, present, and future.

At Empowered Doula Services, we show up with more than just support—we show up with heart, healing, and hope.
We are the calm in the storm, the anchor in the waves, and the fierce protectors of birthing autonomy and joy.

Black doulas matter because Black lives matter at every stage—including birth.

Ways to Celebrate Black Doula Day:

✨Share this post to uplift the work we do

✨Donate to support a Black birthworker’s training or business

✨Book a consultation or birth support session

Tag your doula. Honor a doula. Become a doula.
Because we’ve always been here—and we’re not going anywhere.

04/04/2025

Dear Friends & Supporters,

I’m excited to share that we’ve launched a new Instagram platform as I continue the journey to becoming a Licensed Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) — a path I’ve been walking for the past 2.5 years with purpose, prayer, and passion.

I’m committed to building a midwifery practice that provides accessible, high-quality, and culturally centered care for families in our Knoxville community. But I can’t do this alone
— I need your support to bring this vision to life.

Learn how you can support this mission today:
 https://stg-knoxvilleblackmaternalhealth-staging.kinsta.cloud/alexis-midwifery-journey/

My new platform, Empowered Birth & Midwifery Services, will document my journey from Doula to Midwife and highlight my work as a maternal health advocate. — https://www.instagram.com/empoweredmidwiferyservices/profilecard/?igsh=MWx0dTZybXlzbGN4Zg==

Let’s stay connected👏🏾👏🏾
Follow along on Instagram:

With deep gratitude,
Alexis Alsup ✨

03/25/2025

✨ Happy World Doula Week! ✨

Doulas are the heart of birth work, holding space, offering comfort, and empowering families through every step of their journey. From prenatal support to birth and beyond, we show up with love, knowledge, and unwavering care.

At Empowered Doula Services, we celebrate the transformative power of doulas and the sacred work we do. Thank you to all the families who trust us to walk alongside you in these life-changing moments!

💛 Tag a doula you appreciate! Let’s uplift this work together!

03/14/2025

Guided by the hands of a Black midwife, now walking the path as an aspiring Black midwife myself.

Black midwives have always been the backbone of our communities, reclaiming birth, restoring trust, and nurturing generations.

I am honored to walk this path✨

03/09/2025

Meet Azael 💙✨

On March 1st at 8:31 AM, we welcomed our sweet boy earthside—8 lbs 5 oz of pure love!

I’m beyond grateful to have birthed my baby my way—an empowering homebirth experience surrounded by love and support. Huge thanks to my incredible birth team for holding space for me through this sacred journey!

Black birth stories matter, and I can’t wait to share mine with you all soon. Stay tuned!

With love,
Alexis ✨

Midwife-
Doula-
Assistant- ~Kristin Mejia

02/19/2025

The Sacredness of Lotus Birth ✨

The placenta is honored as a sacred connection between mother and baby—a life-giving organ that nourished your little one throughout pregnancy.

Lotus birth is a practice where the placenta remains attached to the baby until it naturally detaches, allowing for a gentle transition earthside. This process is believed to support emotional bonding, a peaceful postpartum experience, and deep respect for the natural rhythm of separation.

Today, I received a beautiful placenta bag created by a Black-owned business , and I’m in love! Having a special bag to cradle the placenta during a lotus birth adds to the sacredness of the experience, honoring both the journey of birth and the wisdom of the body.