Samsarah Morgan, Doula, BirthWorker . Author, & Hypnotherapist in Oakland

04/22/2026

12/07/2025

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Everyone is born, but how many of us understand the process? Become a fly on the wall during one woman's unmedicated labor at home, getting first-hand insigh...

11/29/2025

A baby hadn’t eaten for more than a day, and the storm had already taken almost everything else. 🍼

Friends, in the wreckage left by Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, power was gone, roads were shredded, and food supplies were cut off like a switch. Shelters were packed. Hospitals were strained. 🌪️

A mother held her crying newborn with no formula, no milk, and no way out. Hours stretched into a full day. The baby grew weaker. The kind of silence that terrifies parents settled in. Then a policewoman stepped forward. She had recently given birth herself. No press. No protocol. Just a quiet decision in a very loud disaster. She breastfed the child right there in the shelter. 🤱🏻

The crying stopped. The baby ate. The mother broke down in relief. Someone caught it on video. It spread around the world as a symbol of hope. But here’s the turn we don’t like to talk about. 👶🏻

That moment of tenderness happened because everything else had failed. Early warnings. Emergency systems. Basic access to food and care. The uniform didn’t make her heroic. The choice did. In a disaster measured in wind speed and destroyed buildings, this was measured in ounces of milk and a borrowed heartbeat. And it reminds us of a hard truth. 👮🏻‍♀️

When systems collapse, survival is often carried not by machines or plans, but by ordinary people making impossible choices for strangers.

Sometimes the smallest human acts are the only walls left standing. 💛

11/26/2025

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# Laura Cox morgaqnA discussion on recent research and ongoing research regarding HIV and Breastfeeding

11/24/2025

This piece is in my October newsletter .

A Farewell to Hospital Birth Work By Samsarah T. Morgan, DD, CHT, LC, CD October 22 is the day I celebrate my anniversary as a birthworker . After forty-four years of service to birthing families, it is with a heavy but full heart that I announce my retirement from attending births in hospit...

11/22/2025

Deputies reported hearing screaming and notified an on-call nurse but did not report a medical emergency, jail records show. Hours later, a nurse and deputy found Kelsey Love wedged inside her torn sleeping mat, blood smeared across the floor.

Love had given birth, scooped mucus from the baby’s mouth, tied the umbilical cord with a used condom she found under a bench, bit the cord off, then crawled into the mat to keep him warm.

The boy, whom she named Xayden, had drugs in his system but was otherwise healthy. Her father and stepmother cared for him until she was stable.

Love said she received a $200,000 settlement from Franklin County, which denied allegations in court filings. The jail has since changed its medical contractor, and adopted a new policy requiring that the contractor have a protocol for the care of pregnant inmates.

Pregnant women who are jailed, often for petty crimes, are miscarrying or giving birth in excruciating pain and into cell toilets or onto filthy jail floors, according to an investigation from Bloomberg Law and NBC News.

Read more women's stories: nbcnews.app.link/O8vMsZUZrYb

11/20/2025

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A woman gave birth on the side of the road after she was discharged from an Indiana hospital while in active labor, according to her family.

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11/20/2025

An Indiana woman's family claims she was wheeled out of a hospital in active labor, forcing her to give birth on the side of a road.

Relatives of Mercedes Wells told ABC station WLS in Chicago she was discharged from Franciscan Health Crown Point Hospital in Crown Point on Sunday, as hospital staff told her to go home to wait for her labor to progress.

She then gave birth eight minutes later on the side of the road, the family told the affiliate. https://abcnews.visitlink.me/tcsMy3

11/16/2025

10/29/2025

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