Nur Midwifery

07/17/2023

Friday night NUR space hosted a fundraiser for the community meal train. The threat of rain had me nervous all day but it held off until we were cleaning up.
Our people showed up with food to share and made donations. We laughed, ate passion fruit ice cream, snuggled each others babies and connected. It took me a few days to really let it all sink in. We are blessed to have one another.
Thank you to everyone who donated to the raffle (tagged) and to all of you who bought tickets.
Shout out to Kayla who pulled this together with me while deep in midwifery school.
Head over to .space to join the volunteer list to get baby announcement and make donations when you can or a one time donation link on the website.
To many more garden parties! 🎉🌳

06/06/2023

Happy International Homebirth Day!

Today made me reflect back to this birth just a month ago. This mama worked so SO hard to push out her sweet boy. As we went into the night, I looked at her affirmation wall with love notes from friends guiding her through. Friends whose babies I’ve caught 💕I love how connected my clients are. Even though homebirth continues to be a small percentage of births in this country, it is growing! Fast! Shout out your homebirth today and every chance you get. Shout out your homebirth midwife!

I hope many of you catch the homebirth bug 🐞.

06/06/2023

Happy International Homebirth Day!

Shout out to Martine! Now retired from homebirth and living a sweet life of staying up late and off call!

Tag some love for Martine if she caught your baby!

05/05/2023

Happy International Day of the Midwife! Ready to witness another little human make their way onto this earth.
Celebrate life. Hire a midwife. Have a home birth.

05/04/2023

Repost from Back to midwifery content, sent me this pic and I can’t stop smiling 😊 thank you for letting me share this cutest moment ever!!
Happy Saturday!!
Hope everyone is staying cozy on this rainy day ❤️

04/19/2023

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03/18/2023

The NYC Homebirth Collective is delighted to present our outcomes for 2022. Please come learn more about homebirth safety and quality in NYC and hear from NYC’s foremost experts on home birth - our homebirth midwives.

10/05/2020

A year ago today your mama, my big sister was in early labor. I was introducing to the Green Meadow community by proudly showing him around the Fall Fair, making him smell all of the beeswax candles and eating maple candy. At the same time the butterflies of having someone in labor were stirring. People asked about and I would just smile and hold in my excitement. Fast forward, the sun was beginning to set and we took a walk down Joyce Drive and quickly had to make our way back home as things were picking up. Amina got into the shower and I called .

It was a Saturday night and we were in the home we grew up in. All of our people were walking by. You could feel the warmth and love and how special this particular moment was. All of our worlds and experiences colliding. Amina made her way into the boys room which was the room we shared growing up. She knelt between their beds. Val and I glowing because we knew it was near. Our mother holding Amina and Murat by her side. Latifa quickly slid out into the world, a tiny little spirit, into my hands.

We all knew she would be a girl without knowing. It simply was. There was no surprise.

She was perfectly tiny and so immediately loved. We called our family to announce that the baby was born. Everyone was praying-perfectly timed with her arrival.

It was no easy task midwifing my big sister as I planned my weddings around her due date. Although I was present for the birth of the boys, I was responsible for Latifa. And my into my hands she came. Her tiny spirit. Today marks her first year with us. She is joyous, loud and playful and so unbelievably loved. Happy day of birth little Tifa. But today we also honor . For she carried you, birthed you and continues to nurture you each and every day.

07/13/2020

Midwives play a very important role in the health care system in Haiti. "This project will supply 300 Haitian midwives, spanning across the ten departments of Haiti, with the protective gear (masks, gloves, soap, hand sanitizer) they need to safely take care of women, girls and newborns. It will also provide masks for the families they serve. Midwives will also provide free education within their communities on the Coronavirus (facts/debunking myths, proper hand washing, mask wearing/making, implications on pregnancy and breastfeeding and gender-based violence)." Please make a donation.

https://www.globalgiving.org/microprojects/covid-19-midwives-on-the-front-line-saving-lives/

This project will supply 300 Haitian midwives, spanning across the ten departments of Haiti, with the protective gear (masks, gloves, soap, hand sanitizer) they need to safely take care of women, girls and newborns. It will also provide masks for the families they serve. Midwives will also provide f...

06/03/2020

Tonight! Come and ask all of your home birth questions. Meet some of the home birth midwives to NYC who are making big changes in the way babies are born and the way care if offered to pregnant people. We welcome all!

The second in our series: The Homebirth Difference. This free webinar will feature a discussion with real NYC Homebirth Midwives about the actual birth - what makes birthing at home so special? We will be there to answer all your questions about safety, autonomy, transfers, water birth, what we bring, who comes along, and so much more! Registration is required:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuupqTspEtI7xoamnQT23YOxhROcKesE

06/02/2020

We will be muted our content June 1-7 to participate in challenge. We will only be sharing content supporting .

Our silence will allow us to listen, learn and support. As midwives, listening to our clients is what makes care unique, individual and safe. Listening is what we should be inherently good at. We take this time to hone in on that skill show up.

Thank you & .msrd

05/26/2020

"We agree that Dr. McClelland’s knowledge is limited to the universe that is his hospital – a universe that boasts a cesarean birth rate of 38.9%. As experts in vaginal and out of hospital birth, we are happy to enlighten him about both, including how we facilitate a relationship of partnership and trust with our clients, how we make judicious use of the medications and tools available to us to mitigate risk and manage complications, and how we are experienced in facilitating hospital transfer in a timely way that generally does not require emergency transport."
Robina Khalid for the NY Home Birth Collective. Brilliant response. Please read and share.

A Letter to the Editor of the New York Times regarding the Op-Ed “Don’t Be Afraid of Giving Birth in a New York Hospital.” By the NYC Homebirth Collective May 6, 2020

04/17/2020

This evening!

Join Birth from The Earth on IG LIVE tonight! 5:30-7:30 PM for a Virtual Open Mic Celebrating the Black Wombman on the last day of Black Matetnal Health Week. Tag a Poet, Poetess, Singer, Songstress, Advocate, Activist.

03/27/2020

The first of many webinars with the NYC Homebirth Collective every Wednesday at 7pm!

Homebirth in the time of Covid-19. Licensed Midwives Shawna King, Martine Jean-Baptiste, Nuranisa Rae, Kimm Sun, and Tanya Wills discuss if Homebirth is righ...

03/27/2020

But making a last-minute switch probably isn’t a good idea.

03/24/2020

Tomorrow night with the smart & sweet Sophia Medina

COST: $20 THIS IS A VIRTUAL LIVE CLASS. Once you sign up, you will be provided a link for a Google “hangout.” EVENT INFO: