Druid City Doula

02/19/2025

Did you know that this weekend is the Severe Weather Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday? This means you are able to stock up tax free on common supplies needed to prepare for a natural disaster or general emergency costing less than $60!

Join us at the City of Tuscaloosa Farmers Market this Saturday, 2/22/25, to be better prepared for severe weather🌪️⛈️The Tuscaloosa County EMA will be at the market holding a drawing for 10 free weather radios!

Please note: You will need to present a valid Tuscaloosa County Drivers License to enter the drawing.

11/28/2024

06/06/2024

By WVUA 23 News Reporter Paislee Roberts Table of Grace is a food pantry that is part of Grace Presbyterian Church. The pantry allows locals to come by and shop in the market for various food items. The market is currently looking for volunteers to help people shop, stock shelves and load groceries....

03/20/2023

05/15/2021

There is a growing concern that overuse of cesarean delivery (CD) is leading to increases in maternal morbidity and mortality. However, there is a lack of agreement regarding the ability to impact CD rates or which approaches would most safely lower rates. Midwives are known to have lower rates of o...

04/11/2021

In honor of this major milestone, we are asking all our friends, supporters, clients, doulas...everyone who has been touched by BirthWell and our mission over the last 10 years to come together and help us raise $10,000 to launch us into the next 10 years of caring for families in Alabama. 

02/03/2021

Tell Gov. Ivey to expand Medicaid now!

06/22/2020

So excited about this:

From MariahAlyce Clc Doula: I am so excited about this opportunity that I am finally able to share! 🙏🏽

I recently received a donation with one simple request - to put back into the community (specifically West side/Tuscaloosa). The statistics have reflected a need for prenatal, labor, and breastfeeding education and support. I have been granted the opportunity to share my Doula and Lactation services with FIVE expecting mothers.

Words can not express how thankful I am for the loving family that made this possible. They have been a blessing and I am so excited to be able to share this blessing with others. ❤

If you are interested in applying for this opportunity, please feel free to fill out this scholarship application to be considered. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me at www.mariahalyce.com. If you desire to contribute to the scholarship fund so that we can continue to make this an opportunity for more mothers, feel free to send donations via PayPal (paypal.me/MariahAlyce). No amount is too little.

Scholarship Application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhagAtXGAnd2j5U7NigqmXalSC8evRg5UzWZjFx-S7_KZaHA/viewform

06/19/2020

Even when controlling for income, education, and prenatal care, Black women die in childbirth at 3 to 4 times the rate of white women, and Black babies die at double the rate of white babies.

Today, Juneteenth, Tru Kellman and her team at Jamaa Birth Village open their new Midwifery Clinic in Ferguson, Missouri -- the region's first equal access midwifery clinic where women will be able to receive services regardless of their income.

From our Together Rising:
"After Brittany “Tru” Kellman endured two traumatic birthing experiences, during which she was dismissed and misled by her doctors, she was determined to empower other Black women to avoid the same experience.

According to the CDC, Black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as white women, and Black infants are more than twice as likely to die as white infants. C-sections are 40% more likely among Black women than white women. This disparity is due to the compounded stressors of gender and racial discrimination throughout Black women’s lives and systemic racism in health care, leading to the dismissal of Black women’s questions, concerns, and pain.

When Tru learned that receiving support from doulas and midwives leads to greatly improved outcomes for women and babies, she was determined to bring these invaluable services to her community.

Tru studied traditional midwifery in Ghana and attended the Midwives College of Utah, becoming the first Black midwife in Missouri with an MEAC-accredited degree.

In 2015, she founded the . Jamaa—Swahili for family—has worked with more than 350 families in providing perinatal care.

In 2018, Together Rising was honored to invest $135,000 in Tru and Jamaa toward the new Clinic. And, after years of tireless work, Tru opens the region’s first equal access midwifery clinic where women will be able to receive services regardless of their income.

We thank you for investing in Tru and Jamaa Birth Village, and we invite you to follow, with us, the life-changing work they will do with the new Midwifery Clinic.

Photo credit: Plus Photos, LLC. & Jamaa Birth Village”