02/02/2026
✨ Black History Is Birth Work ✨
Before hospitals.
Before policies tried to erase us.
Before Black women were pushed out of rooms we once led.
There were Granny Midwives.
Black women who caught babies with skilled hands and sacred knowledge.
Who walked miles in the dark to attend births.
Who blended ancestral wisdom, clinical intuition, prayer, and power.
Who held entire communities together—often without recognition, protection, or pay.
They were regulated out.
Disrespected.
Labeled “untrained.”
Yet outcomes worsened when they were removed.
At Birth in Color Midwifery, we honor these women not as history—but as foundation.
Our work is a continuation.
Our care is resistance.
Our presence is reclamation.
Black-led birth work is not a trend.
It is a return.
We stand on the shoulders of women who were never meant to disappear.
And we are still here—protecting Black life, Black birth, and Black futures.
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