044 Postpartum Doula Support
12/31/20 • 51 min
Today Soraya will be talking to us about the options for postpartum support in your neighborhood. As a society, we have lost our "villages" where we would receive the care and guidance from the matriarchs who were there to help us heal after birth. Postpartum doulas have grown in popularity as the emphasis has started to encompass not only birth, but that transformative period after birth as the family grows and strives to find their new normal. Postpartum doulas serve families in so many ways and provide the individualized care and attention that is so critical in the days, weeks and months following birth.
Resources:
First Forty Days:
The Wonder Weeks:
The Happiest Baby on the Block:
Soraya Mazloomi is a certified labor and postpartum doula, placenta encapsulator and childbirth and postpartum educator. She is the owner of Boise Birth Services, a full spectrum doula agency that serves the Treasure Valley and surrounding areas. She is the Director of Education for Idaho Doula Associates and has been involved in and around the birth community for 8 years. She believes deeply that families deserve unconditional, unbiased support and works in her community both professionally and legislatively to protect and promote the rights of ALL families.
Today Soraya will be talking to us about the options for postpartum support in your neighborhood. As a society, we have lost our "villages" where we would receive the care and guidance from the matriarchs who were there to help us heal after birth. Postpartum doulas have grown in popularity as the emphasis has started to encompass not only birth, but that transformative period after birth as the family grows and strives to find their new normal. Postpartum doulas serve families in so many ways and provide the individualized care and attention that is so critical in the days, weeks and months following birth.
Resources:
First Forty Days:
The Wonder Weeks:
The Happiest Baby on the Block:
Soraya Mazloomi is a certified labor and postpartum doula, placenta encapsulator and childbirth and postpartum educator. She is the owner of Boise Birth Services, a full spectrum doula agency that serves the Treasure Valley and surrounding areas. She is the Director of Education for Idaho Doula Associates and has been involved in and around the birth community for 8 years. She believes deeply that families deserve unconditional, unbiased support and works in her community both professionally and legislatively to protect and promote the rights of ALL families.
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043 Addressing Systematic Racism and Implicit Bias in Maternal/Child Healthcare
In this episode we talk to Dr. Sayida Pepra. She discusses how studies have identified implicit bias and lack of culturally appropriate care as a contributor to maternal health disparities as well as share how to construct support strategies and interventions for pregnant, birthing and postpartum individuals with a history of transgenerational trauma. We also spend quite a bit of time sharing about how you can identify and assess personal implicit biases.
Resources:
Sayida's Website: www.DrSayidaPeprah.com (http://sayidapeprah.synthasite.com)
Diversity Uplifts Website: www.DiversityUplifts.org (https://diversityuplifts.yolasite.com)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrSayida
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drsayida/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drsayida.uplifts.3
Dr. Sayida Peprah is a licensed clinical psychologist and birth doula, with over 10 years of experience in both fields. She specializes in multicultural psychology, trauma, suicide prevention and maternal mental health. Dr. Sayida has a multi-faced career as a psychologist, diversity and cross-cultural educator, and community-based doula program director. Dr. Sayida is also the Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit organization Diversity Uplifts, Inc., who's mission is “fostering diversity and supporting communities and the providers who serve them.”
An advocate for human rights in childbirth, Dr. Sayida is a member of the Black Women Birthing Justice Collective and a Collaborator with the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, promoting research, education and community-based services to positively transform the birthing experiences of black families. Dr. Sayida has served and continues to serve on advisory committees to improve maternal health including Perinatal Equity Initiative Committees, and formerly the California Maternal Suicide Review Committee and others aimed at identifying key risks and opportunities for quality improvement and prevention around disparities.
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045 Jolene Grizzle: an Infertility Birth Story
In this episode, Jolene will discuss her experience with infertility, the toll it can take on your mental/physical health and relationships, and what its like to beat it. Infertility affects 1 in 8 couples in the United States and is still considered taboo. By sharing her story, Jolene hopes to bring light where there can be so much darkness. Her experience led her down a lonely, confusing path for many years. Feeling helpless, not knowing where to turn, left her mentally and physically unwell. Now experiencing motherhood, she wants to share it all. The good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful parts of infertility and what it’s like to be a mom.
Resources:
Nancy’s Nook Endometriosis Education: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NancysNookEndoEd/
Mental Health Hotline: https://www.mentalhealth.gov/get-help/immediate-help
Prenatal Class: https://www.embryoga.com
EnVie Fitness: https://enviefitnessidaho.com
Idaho Stork: https://www.idahostork.com
Idaho Center for Reproductive Medicine: https://idahoreproductive.com
BIOS: Jolene Grizzle is married to her high school sweetheart, a photographer of people, a lover of animals, and a homebody. After years of pain, frustration, misdiagnosis, and infertility; she is overjoyed to be a new mom to a beautiful baby girl.
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