Apapachar Wombyn Services

Apapachar Wombyn Services Apapachar comes from the Nahuatl word Apapachoa which means to Caress with the Soul. Apapachar Prov

This week, I honor the countless Native and Indigenous Midwives who have carried the sacred knowledge of birth since tim...
10/09/2025

This week, I honor the countless Native and Indigenous Midwives who have carried the sacred knowledge of birth since time immemorial. Even when our practices were silenced, criminalized, or erased, our grandmothers continued to bring life into this world with their hands, prayers, songs, and medicines.

We are still here vibrant, alive, and reclaiming birth as ceremony.
We are protecting culture, preserving language, and bringing our babies earthside in ways that honor our ancestors.

Midwifery is not just a profession it is a calling, a responsibility, and an act of resistance against systems that have long tried to define, limit, or erase us.

I stand in gratitude for the midwives before me, those walking beside me, and the next generation who will continue this sacred work. May we always remember that birth is ours it always has been and always will be.

✨ For our grandmothers, our daughters, and the future. ✨

’m opening up a few days in September for those looking to book support sessions. 🌿 Please note that space and times are...
08/28/2025

’m opening up a few days in September for those looking to book support sessions. 🌿 Please note that space and times are limited, and a deposit is required to secure your spot on my calendar.

For fertility support, I am now offering a three-appointment minimum. This shift is rooted in a commitment to you and to myself , true transformation and care take time, and I want to honor that process with consistency rather than single visits. No exceptions! 💛

If you’ve been thinking about booking, now is the time to claim your spot . Send me a message to reserve your spot. Please one DM only

October has a bit more availability but same process .

Not allowing undocumented individuals to register as Medi-Cal providers is an outright injustice. The Medi-Cal provider ...
08/27/2025

Not allowing undocumented individuals to register as Medi-Cal providers is an outright injustice. The Medi-Cal provider system requires a Social Security Number, which means undocumented doulas are automatically shut out. This policy is not neutral it is a direct attack on brown people. It is an attack on a brown person providing services for another brown person. It is an attack on the right to speak our own languages and dialects in spaces where our birthing relatives deserve to feel safe and understood. Once again, the system is choosing who gets to support brown people and how they are supported and who gets erased.

While there are many trainings for undocumented individuals to become doulas, the truth is hard: unless they choose to run a private doula practice, they will never be able to receive reimbursement through Medi-Cal. At least not currently. Becoming a Medi-Cal provider is off-limits to them, no matter how much experience, cultural knowledge, or community trust they hold. That means the only “option” for our Mexican , Guatemalteco , Mixteco relatives, farmworkers, campesinas, and undocumented sisters who are doing this sacred work or working towards doing this doula work is to continue laboring for free if they want to support families inside the hospital system.

Meanwhile, these same individuals are forced to pay taxes with an ITIN , accepted by the government when it comes to taking money, but rejected when it comes to being compensated for their contributions. This is more than hypocrisy , it is systemic exclusion. It is institutional racism. It is economic injustice.

And even for those who can register, the Medi-Cal reimbursement rates are already a disgrace a clear statement of what the system thinks our work is worth. Pair that with the exclusion of undocumented doulas, and what you have is not equity, not inclusion, not justice but another form of state sanctioned exploitation.

I have some amazing Spanish speaking only Mentees doing amazing work in their community and now at a stand still with helping them navigate this system that once again is pushing us out

06/14/2025

They used to say, “Just wait until you have kids who act just like you.”

Like it was some kind of curse. A punishment.

But now I do. I have kids who are sensitive like I was. Who feel everything deeply. Who get overwhelmed, who need extra love, who ask big questions and cry when the world feels too loud.

And instead of punishing them for that, I sit with them in it. I hold them. I whisper gentle words I once needed to hear.

Because having them showed me something no one ever did when I was younger.

It’s actually not hard to love someone like me.

It’s not hard to be patient. Or to choose kindness instead of shame. It’s not hard to protect their spirit instead of trying to break it.

I have kids just like me. And they will grow up knowing they were never too much. They will grow up knowing they were always enough.

06/14/2025

"One day when you wake up,
you will find that you've become a forest.
You've grown roots and found strength in them that no one thought you had.
You have become stronger and more beautiful, full of life giving qualities.
You have learned to take all the negativity around you, and turn it into oxygen for easy breathing.
A host of wild creatures live inside you,
and you call them stories.
A variety of beautiful birds nest inside your mind, and you call them memories.
You have become an incredible self sustaining thing of epic proportions.
And you should be so proud of yourself,
of how far you have come from the seeds of who you used to be."

( ✍️ Nikita Gill )

Art : Jillian Carter

06/14/2025

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06/11/2025

Maternidad La Luz is a free standing birth center in El Paso, TX.

06/11/2025

A rainbow baby doesn’t erase the storm.
It doesn’t make you forget the pain, the loss, the ache that lives in the quiet moments.

But it brings color back to a world that felt gray.
It brings hope to a heart that was so sure it had shattered for good.

Holding my rainbow baby reminded me that joy can live next to sorrow.
That grief and love can hold hands.
That a heart that’s been broken can still open wide enough to let new life in.

To all the mamas still waiting for their rainbow,
I see you.
Your storm is valid.
And your rainbow, when it comes, will be worth every tear you’ve cried.

06/11/2025

Idioma Náhuatl 🇲🇽 ✨❤

It’s been a Minute since we assisted at births together . The Original Dream HomeBirth Team😍 Enjoying The Indigenous Bir...
05/03/2025

It’s been a Minute since we assisted at births together .
The Original Dream HomeBirth Team😍

Enjoying The Indigenous Birth Conference

The placenta is a baby’s first connection to life, serving as the bridge between mother and child. It provides oxygen, n...
02/16/2025

The placenta is a baby’s first connection to life, serving as the bridge between mother and child. It provides oxygen, nutrients, and immunity while carrying away waste, functioning as a life-sustaining organ uniquely created for each baby. Many cultures recognize the sacred relationship between the baby and their placenta, often honoring it with rituals, burial ceremonies, or even delayed separation through practices like lotus birth. This connection does not end at birth—allowing the placenta to detach naturally ensures a gentle transition for both mother and baby, respecting the physiological process that has sustained them for months.

Western medicine, however, often disregards this natural process in favor of efficiency, rushing to remove the placenta immediately after birth. This forceful intervention—through controlled cord traction or manual removal—can cause unnecessary trauma, increasing the risk of hemorrhage. Ironically, once they create the bleeding, they then administer medications like Pitocin to stop it, treating a problem they induced by not allowing the body to complete the third stage of labor on its own. This rush is largely driven by hospital policies that prioritize time management over physiological birth, as doctors cannot leave the room until the placenta is delivered. Instead of honoring the body’s natural ability to birth the placenta when ready, the system imposes an unnecessary cycle of intervention and correction, often at the expense of maternal health.

Today, I was blessed to help a mother navigate her baby Earthside—my shirt covered in vernix and blood, my knees soaked ...
02/14/2025

Today, I was blessed to help a mother navigate her baby Earthside—my shirt covered in vernix and blood, my knees soaked in amniotic fluid and baby p**p. I sat on amniotic fluid . But in those moments, none of it mattered. Because when you’re doing what you love, when you’re holding space for new life to enter this world, the mess fades away. All that’s left is the beauty, the strength, and the deep honor of witnessing birth in its purest form.

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Apapachar comes from the Nahuatl word Apapachoa which means to Caress with the Soul.

Apapachar Proviene del Nahuatl que significa : Acariciar con el Alma

Traditional Birth Worker, Labor and Postpartum Doula , Placenta Encapsulator, Childbirth Educator.

Byanca Franco Founded Apapachar Wombyn Services to empower and support expecting Mothers as a Doula through traditional birthing tools and techniques from her native homeland of Mexico.