Manger Born Doula Services

11/13/2024

This is sad... and actually makes me angry. 😢

11/11/2024

True story.

09/17/2024

I woke up yesterday morning with the song "The Best is Yet to Come" x Donald Lawrence in my head... the vamp just kept repeating... 🎶"You ain't seen nothin, you ain't seen nothin yet!" 🎶

Yall, I KNEW my 33rd year of life would be one for the books and it SURELY WAS!!! In SO many ways, it was one of my BEST years of life after 2022 was one of my WORSE years ever!!

And NOW, to have these words on repeat, 1st thing when I woke up, my mind is churning about what TMH wants to do with me & my family!! 🤯
~APTTMH YHWH~🙏🏽🙏🏽

Happy 34th Birthday to meeeee!! 😁🥰

09/09/2024

How it started🥰.......How it's goin🤩
15 YEARS OF MARRIAGE!!!🎉🎉🎉
09/09/09
This typa love is STRONG!! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

07/24/2024

Join us at the Utica Zoo August 7th, 2024 at 11am in celebration of World Breastfeeding Week! Interact with our community agencies/organizations to learn about the resources our region has for moms interested in breastfeeding and you'll have a chance to win any of our several prized raffle items! We...

07/24/2024

Back in April we hosted a training for 11 black women who are passionate about helping other women through pregnancy & childbirth, to become doulas!! ...and now they are all undergoing my business mentorship program, creating more black-women-owned businesses in our area!! I'm so proud of these women for sticking with it and they soon will be launching their very own doula businesses!! 💪🏽💪🏽

Helping women to become doulas.

06/06/2024

Looking for pregnant women of color in the Utica area that are in need of Prenatal childbirth education, help with planning the laboring experience and doula support for their upcoming birth! All services are free & confidential. PM me if you are interested or would like to refer an expectant mother for services.

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05/09/2024

TOMORROW!! I am hosting my 2nd annual Community Baby Shower!! This year it is in honor of at the Wynn Hospital !! We will have food catered by Jay's Kitchun & cupcakes by Desrey Durant of Desi Cakes & Party Supplies !! We'll also have community agencies and maternal-child health professionals as exhibitors and raffle prizes!!

Featured Exhibitors/Sponsors include:

MVBN Mohawk Valley Breastfeeding Network
The Good Latch Cat
Integrated Community Alternatives Network (ICAN)
The Neighborhood Center, Inc.
Mohawk Valley Lactation
Rescue Mission of Utica
Mohawk Valley Health System
Willow Network
CNY Born
Centering Pregnancy MVHS
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
O'Brien Wellness LLC

Every mom (including pregnant) that signs up online can receive a free pack of diapers and will be automatically entered into our general raffle with the option to purchase more tickets if desired.

This event is free and open to the public! From 3pm-5:30pm!! Won't you come thru and see what resources our community has to offer pregnant and new moms!! Join Mohawk Valley Prenatal/Maternity Support !!
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04/25/2024

Sign for free diapers in Utica!!! Link in the comments!!

04/12/2024

In honor of I am so pleased to officially announce my new program called "Sister Circle: Black Birth & Breastfeeding Initiative." It was created in hopes of eliminating social barriers to to black maternal-child health equity and decrease the maternal-child health disparity among Black/Latin women.
..a bit of history...
In 2016, I founded Mohawk Valley Prenatal/Maternity Support (MVPMS), which at first was simply a Facebook group bringing together local moms and professionals (doulas, lactation support, midwives, nurses, infant care specialists, body work specialists and more) into one space to socialize, network and support one another.

Since then, I've been offering free childbirth edu, doula support and breastfeeding counseling to low-income moms. I've also been a resource for baby care items, breastfeeding aids and other maternity essentials. Over the years I've been able to bless familes with food, diapers/wipes, training pants, baby bathtubs, manual & electric breastpumps, maternity clothes, kids clothes/shoes, strollers, car seats, a standard sized crib and much more.

We've partnered with sooo many local agencies/organizations on various events, workshops, giveaways, etc.

In 2021, I hosted my 1st very own event in celebration of where I came up with the idea of black moms gathering together in a "sister circle" to talk about black mama stuff ... fast forward ----> I was given the funding to finally launch my own doula agency and it starts with our "Sister Circle" initiative.

We are providing free training to local black women to become birth doulas and they will be providing free doula support to local black pregnant moms. These newly trained doulas will also receive 6 months of business mentorship where we walk with them through their first client and help them launch their own doula businesses. This is called our 'Sister Circle: Nurturing the Doula' sessions.

Our pregnant "clients" will also be participating in monthly social gatherings called 'Sister Circle: Nurturing the Mother' where they can bond with eachother and share their fears and concerns about birth and hopefully overcome them to birth fearlessly!

I hope you will support our efforts by sharing information about our program and helping us raise awareness about the need for doula support for black childbearing women.

BIG Thanks to Excellus BlueCross BlueShield and Sharon Baugh of Hope Chapel AME Zion Church for this incredible opportunity to change the trajectory of our black race in helping more black women to not only survive childbirth but to give birth fearlessly, vigourously with power and control of their body/experience!! Like the Hebrew women we are!!!!!!!

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