Empowering and
supporting women during
the natural & beautiful experience of birthing
One Birth helps to create healthy birthing communities for Somali families by supporting them emotionally, physically and spiritually throughout pregnancy, birth and post-partum. One Birth provides education, empowering values and advocacy for Somali women while eliminating cultural barriers and working to foster the growth of community doulas. We believe birthing choices are crucial to healthy child-parent attachments leading to a healthy foundation for life.
*This is a pilot program beginning in the Somali community, with the intent to grow to other communities
A New Solution.
One Birth has been created to address the disparities of disadvantaged women’s access to social and emotional support throughout pregnancy and birth. The primary way of doing this is by utilizing the services of a growing group of paraprofessionals or doulas. [LEARN MORE]
The Doula's Role
Doulas seek to foster a healthy parent-child attachment, which encourages healthy protective factors leading to increased health outcomes, emotionally and physically, strengthen familial relationships, stronger sense of self causing success in academia and professionally. [LEARN MORE]