Life Seeds Midwifery & Care

10/07/2025

In Honor of National Midwifery Week

Dear Mama Afua,

In celebration of National Midwifery Week, I want to take a moment to honor you and express my deepest gratitude for the wisdom, patience, and heart you’ve poured into this sacred work.

Learning under your guidance was a transformative experience. You’ve shown me what it truly means to serve families with compassion, respect, and reverence for the birthing process. Your example has taught me that midwifery is not only a profession—it’s a calling rooted in love, strength, and the courage to protect physiological birth.

Your mentorship has shaped me in ways that extend beyond clinical skills. You’ve modeled a seriously strong presence, intuition, advocacy, and the art of trusting the body’s divine design. I am deeply thankful for every lesson, every birth shared, and every moment you reminded me that being a midwife is both science and spirit.

Thank you for being a light in this work—for standing firm in your calling and inspiring younger midwives like myself to do the same. May this week remind us of how deeply you are valued and how many lives you’ve touched through your care.

Rest on Elder,

That student from New Orleans…

10/06/2025

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09/25/2025

✨We’re 30-Days from opening the world’s 1st museum fully dedicated to celebrating, honoring, preserving and uplifting African Indigenous Midwifery!✨

Today we invite you to come along a journey with us in getting to know AIMM’s Advisory Council members:

💜Linda Janet Holmes: Writer, Biographer, Oral Historian, Curator and author of “Safe in a Midwife’s Hands”

💜 Mama Sarahn Henderson: Indigenous-African American born, Direct Entry Midwife & Midwife Historian

💜Nana Janet Sula Evans: Mamisi (Priestess of Mami Wata) & Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Congo Square Preservation Society

💜 Sara Makeba Daise, MA: Black, q***r, fifth-generation Gullah Geechee Writer, Griot, Cultural Worker and Diviner from Lowcountry SC

💜 Jamarah Amani: Black, femme and q***r community midwife, Executive Director of Southern Birth Justice Network, and co-founder of National Black Midwives Alliance

💜 Okunsola M. Amadou: Midwife, visionary educator, cultural strategist and founder of Jamaa Birth Village

💜 Mother Health International: Committed to improving birth outcomes in areas where the burden of mortality is highest in Uganda

Our council will support Jamaa in stewarding our collections ethically, sourcing our artifacts, books and media through sacred intention, while guiding AIMM’s cultural structure, balance and member/guest experience.🧡

We’re SO grateful to have them with us!🙌🏾

✨Learn more about AIMM’s Advisory Council at: https://jamaabirthvillage.org/black-midwifery-museum/

09/19/2025

Did you know your body is basically superhuman? 🤯 Those tiny bumps around your ni***es (Montgomery glands) aren’t just for looks they actually release a scent that guides your newborn straight to the breast. Your baby can literally smell their way to you. ✨ Proof that breastfeeding isn’t just feeding 🤱 it’s instinct, connection, and magic all rolled into one. Nature really thought of everything. 💕

09/19/2025

True Labor vs. False Labor

09/03/2025

Check out raquelelise’s video.

08/27/2025

08/06/2025

It’s World Breastfeeding Week 2025!

This year’s World Breastfeeding Week theme is "Prioritize Breastfeeding: Create Sustainable Support Systems." It reminds us how important it is for families to have strong support at home, in their communities, and at work to begin and continue breastfeeding.

At La Leche League USA, we’re here to offer support, information, and encouragement every step of the way. Together, we can build lasting support systems and create a better future for all families.

[Image Description] Parent sits nursing their infant on the floor. Text reads "World Breastfeeding Week." La Leche League USA logo sits at the bottom right.

07/26/2025

“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are stronger than they perceive and need to be reminded.”

-LaMonica the Midwife

06/18/2025

06/11/2025

Shoulder Dystocia -

Shoulder dystocia is an obstetric emergency that occurs when, after the baby’s head is born, one or both shoulders become stuck behind the mother’s pelvic bones, preventing completion of the birth without additional maneuvers.

It is most commonly caused by the anterior shoulder becoming impacted behind the p***c symphysis. A hallmark sign is the “turtle sign”—when the fetal head retracts slightly against the perineum, resembling a turtle pulling back into its shell.

Key Points:

• Prompt recognition and intervention are critical to prevent complications such as brachial plexus injury, fetal hypoxia, or maternal trauma.
• Management involves a sequence of maneuvers (e.g., McRoberts position, suprap***c pressure, or delivery of the posterior arm) to relieve the obstruction.
• Risk factors include fetal macrosomia, gestational diabetes, previous shoulder dystocia, and prolonged second stage of labor, but it can also occur without any risk factors.

Midwives should be skilled in the identification and management of shoulder dystocia and prepared to act quickly with a calm, coordinated response.

05/27/2025

Vitamin K: A fat soluble vitamin for blood clotting.