In 2020 I became an official birth worker. The journey started when I had a healing session with a well known curandera. Unexpectedly, she received the message that I come from a lineage of powerful birth workers and a promise of success and growth if I was to pursue this work in a traditional, spiritual and ceremonious way. I remember the day like it was yesterday.

A few months later, I was able to receive a full spectrum doula certification with Mammissi Birth Services . It was not until I received this certification that my mother had confirmed that my grandmother was a lay midwife in her village in Santiago, Dominican Republic. My grandmother, barely knowing how to read, successfully helped many families birth naturally and at home with zero medical intervention or training. I am grateful to all of my grandmothers known and unknown for passing this ancestral wisdom to me. 

My journey into the birth-keeping world was metaphysical and ancestral. I knew that birth-keeping was passed down from my indigenous/Taino lineage and I cannot deny the presence and wisdom I feel from them when I am doing this work. In the birth-keeping work that I do, ceremony, spirituality, and science are not separate. I have been fortunate to have already supported a few births.

Including a home birth with the birthing goddess Ewokgia and midwives SuperMamma Birth Services. Having a home birth, a Taino home birth specifically, as my first introduction into this world was life changing and set the tone in how I want to show up in this field. Six weeks later, I supported another Taino goddess in a hospital birth. Two completely different experiences, but essential in me truly understanding first hand why birth-keepers are so important and sacred.

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No life carrier should be without the love, care and support of a birth worker.