Badas$ Birthing

Badas$ Birthing CPD and CLES providing full spectrum doula support in the Los Angeles area. My name is Melanie Cruz, and I grew up in Aurora, Colorado.

I have been passionate about birth ever since I was supposed to see one of my younger sisters come into the world when I was nine. Although that didn’t end up working out because of an emergency cesarean birth, my fascination with all things related to birth, birthing, babies and our bodies never left. Even in college when I was studying English and Theatre, I found myself spending precious hours reading books on midwifery, birthing and breastfeeding. Right around this time was also when I was able to attend the birth of my baby sister, which only cemented my interest in the birth world. An accomplished actor, I spent years trying to figure out how to combine my two passions. I even went back to college and did all of my prereqs to potentially go to grad school to obtain my Masters in Nurse-Midwifery. In the winter of 2020, I signed up for a DONA birth doula training at Bini Birth and haven’t looked back. I just finished the 15-week CPD course at Allo Doula Academy and will be taking the board exam to obtain my CPD certification in June. My passion is providing empowered and intentional fertility, birth and postpartum services for my clients.

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In Vietnam, this image of a grandmother breastfeeding her grandchild is more than extraordinary, it’s part of a long history of shared nourishment.

Across cultures and centuries, communities have practiced cross-nursing and wet-nursing:
✨ In times when a mother was ill, passed away, or simply needed support, another woman, sometimes even a grandmother, stepped in to feed the baby.
✨ In Vietnam and other parts of Asia, women have been known to relactate, meaning they can restart or continue milk production, even later in life, when there is a baby in need.
✨ In Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Indigenous communities worldwide, shared nursing was seen as a form of survival, kinship, and solidarity.

Breastfeeding has never been just one mother and one child.

It has often been a communal act of love, protection, and survival.

This photo reminds us that human milk is not only food, it’s medicine, comfort, and a living connection that binds families and generations together.

-Love,
Badassmotherbirther

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