Doulas, Midwives & Perinatal Care
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Image description: Color photo of Angelique in front of a mottled gray tree trunk. They are a medium-toned East Asian person with a buzzed head of black hair, wearing glasses, smiling, looking off to the right. They’re wearing a black wire necklace with silver metal rings looped on it and a black tank dress. As a facilitator, consultant, editor, organizer, and creative, Angelique works to support and repair the connections people have to themselves and their families, communities, and cultural practices. She supports individuals and groups through practical, responsive coaching; trains community and health care workers and educators; and offers lectures, classes, and workshops on topics including the practice of carrying children in fabric close to their caregivers, consent, cultural awareness, community building, relationships, and parenting, in alignment with social, healing, and transformative justice frameworks. Her goal is to seed communities with as much critical thinking, compassion, accountability, and resilience as possible, while helping people get through their days more easily. Angelique values building intergenerationally, with colleagues across disciplines, to question and depolarize the beliefs and practices that can lead to isolation and feelings of powerlessness — to co-create or reclaim ways we can end cycles of violence (systemic, interpersonal, internalized) and promote resilience and healing from historical and social harms. Mobile: 713.899.0655 FB: facebook.com/mumwooga |
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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 |
