Birth Sisters of Charlottesville is a women of color community based doula collective supporting women of color through their birth journey and into motherhood. Our aim is to amplify the resiliency of Black, Indigenous, Women of Color by drawing on life experiences, shared values, training, and sacred legacies to provide culturally rooted, trauma intuitive perinatal services and advocacy. We serve women in the City of Charlottesville and the surrounding counties.
prenatal Support
LACTATION Support
POSTPARTUM Support
labor support
EDUCATION | CARE | COMFORT | RESOURCES
Services are FREE for clients who qualify for Medicaid. Fees for all other clients are based on a deep sliding scale.
For more information, use the Contact form below.
What is a Doula?
A Birth Sister (doula) is a trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to a mother before, during and shortly after childbirth to help her achieve the healthiest, most satisfying experience possible.
What is a community based birth sister (doula)?
A “community-based doula” often has shared lived experiences and is trained to provide extended, culturally congruent support to families throughout pregnancy to include antepartum, intrapartum, during labor and birth, and up to one year postpartum. Community-based doulas provide an expanded set of services and play a crucial role in improving outcomes and experiences for communities most affected by discrimination and disparities in health outcomes.
Our mission
The mission of Birth Sisters of Charlottesville is to dismantle root causes of systemic maternal health disparities for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) while denying race as a risk factor.
Our Vision
Mothers of Color acknowledged, heard, affirmed, honored, respected, cared for, loved, and celebrated throughout their entire maternal journey.
Babies of Color acknowledged, heard, affirmed, honored, respected, cared for, loved, and celebrated from conception to birth through adolescence and into adulthood.
Families of Color acknowledged, heard, affirmed, honored, respected, cared for, loved, and celebrated in their communities.
Get your older babies to bed (if you have them).
Put on your jammies.
Wind down.
Let's give your baby a Love Bath!
A Love Bath is where you intentionally, through meditation and mindfulness, send Love to the precious baby growing in your belly.
This special time is for BIPOC pregnant women and those who want to hold space for them and send Love.
Every Tuesday at 9pm via Zoom
Only 15 minutes!
