Vogueのインスタグラム(voguemagazine) - 3月9日 07時50分
After African-American women, Native-American women face the second-highest rate of death during childbirth, more than twice the rate of white women. In 2003, the Tewa Birthing Project began to examine the disparities in health care for Indigenous women, particularly by creating more access to the support provided by a midwife or doula. Last year, a doula training program was organized to help broaden access to health care and create a safer birth experience with less medical intervention.
“When my doula was with me at my birth is what made me want to become a doula,” said Diana Halsey, Indigenous Women’s Health’s program assistant (pictured with her daughter Amber Wasson). “I felt like I got all of the help that I needed and support and the guidance—and it didn't stop at my birth. It continued and it is still continuing. My daughter is 9 [years old], and I feel like I am passing on this way of being a mother's helper to families to my daughter.” Especially, Halsey said, when Indigenous doulas are able to work with Indigenous women, “they have better knowledge around culture and about boundaries. . .and about the respect when they come in to that village and that home.”
Tap the link in our bio to learn more about the intertribal network of women training to be doulas and volunteers, strengthening cultural knowledge and healing generational trauma at the same time. #InternationalWomensDay
Photographed by @danalixenberg, Written by Rebecca Moss
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