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To connect with one of our doulas, please use the individual contact information available on our profile pages (under Doulas>Active) to connect directly.

To join our collective, please refer to joining the collective.

For general inquiries, media inquiries, interest in hiring us for consultation services, or for more information about our prenatal course or full spectrum doula training, please email us at: ekwi7tldoulacollective@gmail.com

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We are excited to invite you to our Indigenous prenatal class taught by Olivia Louie (Doula, Tla’amin/Key nations), Danette Jubinville (Doula, Anishnaabe/Cree from Pasqua) and Keisha Charnley (Midwife, Katzie) 🌊 Free of cost, link to register in bio! Please reach out if you have any questions 🌊 Poster artwork by @dropletfromthesalishsea Native doulas, midwives, aunties, care givers, birth workers’ time is sacred 🌸 Food is medicine ✨ In a poem by @adriennemareebrown it was said that we “crave” to be helpful during the time of birth. One of the best ways you can be helpful to your loved ones after birth is by creating a “snack plate.” An assortment of nourishing foods that can be eaten with one hand ✨ If you’ve heard of the saying “eating for two,” this is even more true after birth. The act of being pregnant requires about 300 extra calories per day, the act of feeding a baby requires about 500 extra calories per day. But eating well with a baby in your hands, with lack of sleep, and recovering from birth is tough. I’ve been taught that even if your loved one says they aren’t hungry, put a snack plate and a big glass of water beside them, take care of their partner, family and helpers too✨ Ideas for your snack plate: smoked fish, dry meat, cheese, crackers, anything on toast, berries, fruit, meat, veggies, hummus, homemade muffins with berries, seaweed, coffee, nettle tea, red rose and cream, water with a straw, ice tea, cranberry juice and fizzy water 🤍 @ayawus As shared by @biiwashikwe in today’s story, our collective has been gifted a small piece of land within the xʷc̓ic̓əsəm garden at the @ubcfarm to grow reproductive and birth related plant medicines. Right now we are turning soil, weeding, and loving on our seedling trays in an effort to grow medicines that will eventually be distributed to our families, Elders, and communities. Thank you to everyone who shared and donated to our fundraiser which will support so many important initiatives we have going this season, including this one. Our hearts are full and our hands our raised in gratitude 🙌🏾❤️🌱#indigenousbirthwork #birthsovereignty #kinshipcare #allyship #reproductivejustice Calling on our allies and supporters! We do frontline and essential work that is important to Indigenous wellbeing, sovereignty and self-determination, but consistently overlooked and under resourced by health systems. We are fundraising for the first time since establishing our grassroots collective in 2015 to fill urgent gaps in care for our clients and to resource ourselves to be able to provide quality, culturally relevant midwifery and doula care for Indigenous birthers living in and travelling to Vancouver. This call for support is directed at non-BIPOC. We thank you for your support and for helping us to spread the word to your networks! ❤️🍓 Tomorrow (Wednesday, December 9 @ 1pm PT) @ekwi7tlcollective founding member Danette Jubinville @biiwashikwe will be joining Secwépemc birth worker Sage Thomas @secwepemcsage and @indiginews editor Emilee Gilpin @emileeguevara for a conversation around Indigenous reproductive health and justice, our work, and @indiginews findings from their reproductive health deep dive. All are welcome to tune in over Zoom or Facebook live! Link in bio. Kw’as hoy, Huy ch q’u, Huy chexw, Miigwech, Thank you to everyone who joined us (@biiwashikwe @danettesj @mirandadoula ) and @ubclc today for a discussion on supporting Indigenous birth during the pandemic. Your participation and the rich comments and discussion we had were good medicine for us. Thank you for all y’all do in your roles to uplift and support Indigenous parents, families, babies, communities, and birth workers. Today! A recording will be available afterwards. “Charnley grew up hearing stories from her family about her great-grandmother and the ways in which she cared for the people around her.
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