Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective

02/23/2026

Undectabe means unable to transmit HIV. If you’re pregnant and diagnosed with HIV and have been consistently undetectable, your pregnancy is no more high risk than any other healthy mother without hypertension, heart disease, diabetes etc. don’t let the medical establishment fear monger you.

I’m HIV positive and 33 weeks pregnant 🤰🏽

Today I interviewed my son’s potential high risk pediatrician.

Here is everything I asked and learned:

Q: how often will my son have to be tested for HIV?

A: If I wasn’t breastfeeding: 4 times

Since I AM breastfeeding (goal is 6 months but she said I can go as long as I’d like):

7 times total, last time being at 14 months.

Q: Will my son have to be on extended prophylactic medication while I breastfeed?

A: no, zidovudine (zdv/azt) will be administered for first 2 weeks of life and that’s IT.

Being that I’m undetectable my son will not need to be on extended prophylactic medication EVEN WHILE I BREASTFEED 😱

I was so shocked learning this!

& I quote “I can prescribe your son with extended prophylactics but that would be to ease your anxiety, not because it’s necessary or recommended”

Y’ALL 😭💜

Now, I still might want my son to be on extended prophylactics but the fact that she was so knowledgeable and stigma-free about my situation made me feel very confident about choosing her for my son’s care.

She said she has cared for many HIV positive mothers who breastfed and not one transmitted HIV to their child.

Another important thing to note: She was not American. She sounded South African or maybe from New Zealand but that made me even more confident in her education and experience.

Thank you all for following me on this journey. May God bless you all 🫶🏽

02/22/2026

02/20/2026

02/16/2026

Make informed choices. Dr. B is a mom herself and a straight shooter.

If you’re pregnant and planning to skip vitamin K altogether, make sure you know the risks.

Informed Consent. Informed Refusal.

01/27/2026

12/29/2025

Habari Gani? Ujima!

(Collective Work and Responsibility)

To build and maintain our community together and make our community’s problems our problems and to solve them together.

“If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together.”

I am because We are.
My humanity is tied to the whole
We one suffers, we all suffer. When we thrive we thrive together.

When i worked in Zambia, Central Africa it was the first time I not only heard the word Ubuntu, but saw it carried out.

From the women who cared for the infants whose mothers died in childbirth, to the Traditional Birth Attendants and Certified Midwives who worked together to improve the conditions that led to the needless loss of women and children.

They couldn’t wait for someone to come to do the work. It would have to be done by a government. They couldn’t do it alone. They had to work together.

Only when Black mothers lead, and Black midwives, physicians, doulas, nurses, breastfeeding specialists, community health workers. Only when we ALL agree to work together, and move forward; not with a single agenda but a collective agreement centering Out Community, Our Ubuntu, can we move from wanting Black mamas to not just survive but thrive.

We are thankful for all our partners, friends, advisors and supporters who are a true part of our Ubuntu community.

🙏🏾

12/27/2025

Habari Gani! Umoja!

“If you want to go quickly, go alone.

If you want to go far, go together.”

African Proverb

Happy Kwanzaa to all our friends, families and community partners who help us make sure that those we survive don’t just survive, they thrive.

The First principle of Kwanzaa is Umoja, or Unity. The idea we must strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

We named our organization Ubuntu, because we wanted to create a space where we could build a community inextricably tied to to improving the health and wellness of the Black community by coming together with other Black femme birth worker, parents and activists to build our own. Black mothers, babies, and families cannot thrive in a medical model that dictates that white men in white coats who have experimented on our bodies for centuries, not seeing us as fully human and deserving of the same dignity and treatment as their white mothers and partners, mandate our care.

We call for the restoration of the Black Midwives as the trusted advisors on the health of our mothers and babies, Black birth assistants, Black birth centers and the restoration of Black home birth as the rule and not the exception only for women of means.

Only when all of the community is healthy and thriving, mind body and spirit can the whole community thrive.

Ubuntu: I am because we are. But more than that. It means My humanity is tied to yours”

As our Baba The Archbishop Desmond Tutu explained:

“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu — the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness … We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”

Please consider traveling together with us to build a strong Ubuntu as we exercise Umoja through our mission vision and values.

OUR MISSION
Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective serves Black pregnant and parenting mamas, babies and families through the culturally congruent, community-based, holistic reproductive health care and wrap-around, easily accessible support services that inform and empower Black mothers and families to thrive in pregnancy and parenting to reduce maternal and infant health disparities in the year around pregnancy and the newborn’s first year of life.

OUR VISION
Thriving Mamas. Thriving Babies. Thriving Families. Thriving Communities. Culturally Centered, Community-Driven Care.

OUR VALUES
Unity of Purpose. We are composed of a collection of individual Black birth workers working together to one goal. Saving Black mothers and babies from preventable harm and death.

11/19/2025

Delaware history

Civil rights pioneer Bernice V. Byrd Couch, of the historic Claymont 12, is remembered for her trailblazing role in desegregation and her dedicated service.

11/19/2025

The Emergency Medicine Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) prohibits hospitals from turning away a woman in active labor. Franciscan Health didn’t just mistreat this mother, they violated federal law.

Have you ever been mistreated or ignored while in labor?

Eight minutes after being forced to leave the hospital, Mercedes Wells says, she gave birth in her car.

11/19/2025

Our dispensary has been open for a year now! With the support of our partners including Americares and Direct Relief we are able to keep our clients’ chronic illnesses and reproductive health needs met as well as providing essential OTC medications like cold and flu relief and Plan B One Step emergency contraception. As we face future cuts to Medicaid we know that more people than ever will need essential care and we will be here to provide it.

10/22/2025

Did you know that if you get Medicaid or snap benefits, you can get Amazon prime for half price. It’s called prime access and it’s true. 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/shopping/discounted-amazon-prime-memberships/84105139007/ #:~:text=Prime%20Day%20starts-,How%20much%20does%20Prime%20Access%20for%20government%20assistance%20recipients%20cost,$6.99%20per%20month%20after%20that.

10/12/2025