Doulas, Midwives & Perinatal Care
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Image description: Ama smiles warmly, their short wavy brown hair falling to their shoulders. They wear glasses and long dangly earrings that are a light orange, as well as a blue denim button up. They are surrounded by lush vines. Ama (they/them) runs the Embodied Reproductive Care Center in Chicago, IL. Ama provides trauma-informed and trans-centered full-spectrum doula services, somatic trauma & stress processing, peer counseling, and childbirth & sex education. Ama is a white, queer & trans, disabled & neurodivergent, fat, survivor of violence in ED recovery, and works from a space of lived experience rooted in these identities. They specialize in working with queer & trans families and survivors of violence. They support all reproductive health outcomes, including fertility journeys, pregnancy loss, abortion, stillbirth, abdominal birth, and pelvic birth. |
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Image description: Darnicia smiles warmly at the viewer, their dark shoulder-length locs framing their face. She wears a yellow shirt and a hoop in her nose. A tree with yellowing leaves is in the background. Hey, there! 👋🏾 I’m Doula Darnicia (she/they/eve) Our reproductive journeys do not exist independently of social context and constructs, which lends to the injustice and inequity commonly seen in the medicalized prenatal care system. Practicing bodily autonomy while pregnant and giving birth in that system can be difficult; it was designed that way. For birthing people belonging to marginalized groups, additional barriers increase the probability that they will not receive optimal care. That’s WHACK AF. I am a Black and queer birthworker passionate about fostering a culture of autonomy that centers birthing people as the authority of their reproductive experiences — fertility to postpartum (or not being pregnant at all). I use an “all bodies, all cultures, all genders, all births” approach to provide compassionate, safe doula care that honors the full spectrum of identities and intersectionality in each person. I am attentive to your and your support network’s needs, providing compassionate, continuous, customized support that is as unique as you. I am committed to providing in-person and virtual* doula support that advocates, holds space, educates, and trusts the intuition of birthing people. I am your support person, your birth bestie. I do not replace your partner, community, or familial support. I educate, enhance, and encourage them to support you in the ways you direct. My doula care is trauma-informed, intersectional, body-positive, gender-affirming, and deeply committed to harm reduction. I am dedicated to providing evidence-based information, empowering you to problem-solve, and encouraging you to advocate for your rights. Thank you for being here. I am so thankful to share this journey with you! Peace and Blessings, Doula Darnicia 💕✊🏾
Want to know more? Please contact me today. Darnicia, Birth Theory 312-436-2273 IG: @birth.theory Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/birththeorydoula Book a consultation: calendly.com/birththeory/doula
In person support: one hour radius of Chicago, IL Virtual support: globally |
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Heritage Soul Insight is a program of Nafasi Center for QTPOC, a resource and social advocacy group serving the US the central South. We provide community care, education, healing, and support services to Black and Brown Queer, Trans and Intersex People of color. Serving Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Illinois. Our website is here: https://heritagesoulinsigh.wixsite.com/heritagesoul |
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Image description: Rise smiles at the viewer, wearing their braids up in a top knot with a single strand falling next to their face. They wear large hoop earrings, and a blue shirt donning a floral print. Rise (they/them) is a Black disabled gender fluid femme/bio residing on Objibe, Odawa and Potawatomi land (Chicago). They are a Birth/Postpartum/Grief&Loss/Abortion care worker; meditation facilitator; yoga teacher; gender affirming care, trauma informed care and disability justice educator; and poet. Rise has been a healing practitioner for over 10 years. They are deeply invested in disability justice, access, centering wellness for Black queer and transnb folk, trauma education, and rest. They are equally invested in daydreaming and hanging out with their support pup, Jelly Ferocious Rise started Riotous Roots 1 year ago as a means to house their talents, passions and dreams for their communities in one place. You can learn more about them at www.riotousroots.com. Their Trans and Nonbinary Specific Support Offerings are: – Birth, Postpartum, Abortion and Grief & Loss Care work |
