Village Prenatal

Call in your dream birth with story and song medicine. With birthkeepers Arie Hayes and Julia Mathews.

"Village Prenatal" is a term coined by elder midwife Sister Morningstar. It is a gathering of women to witness and support pregnant women on their journey to motherhood.

"We gather around the pregnant mothers, no matter where they plan to birth, how they plan to birth or with whom they plan to birth. We gather around them because they carry the future of our species. They are the Holy Mothers...

We shower them with our finest foods and make them a place of honor. We oil their feet and tell them positive birth stories. We hand them the talking stick and we ask them, “What is your Ideal birth?  If you could birth anyway you wish, what would it look like, sound like, be like?” We listen....

In this way we are returning birth…