
11/01/2024
We are so sad to share that Vida Midwifery is closing our doors, and we will not be opening a new home birth practice at this time.
We feel honored to have served so many wonderful families, and to have built such a beautiful community - we love you all so much.
At the same time, the reality is that our current home birth midwifery system and greater birth work culture is actively harming Black and BIPOC families and midwives, and we can no longer be silent about that. When we have a community where Black and BIPOC students can’t become midwives, can’t practice if they do graduate, and where our clients can’t access our services, we have a major problem.
It cannot and should not be left to us alone to fix this system that we did not create, but that was created to exclude us.
We urge our greater birth work community to consider their responsibility in this fight, and to stand with us to make change so that no future Black or BIPOC midwife has to have this experience, and so that Black and BIPOC families can receive the care they deserve.