Rewire News: Manitoba Indigenous Doula Initiative Empowers Women, Helps Keep Kids Out of Welfare System
Indigenous women are beautiful and powerful and resilient. They are worthy, and they deserve to be moms to their children.
Indigenous women are beautiful and powerful and resilient. They are worthy, and they deserve to be moms to their children.
Dawn Lavand, 33, does everything she can to make sure childbirth is a joyous occasion for Indigenous women.
Wiijiii’idiwag Ikwewagenvisions the Indigenous doula program as an important step toward reclaiming birth in defiance of Health Canada’s maternal evacuation policy.
If you’re an Indigenous Canadian woman who lives on a remote or rural reserve, federal regulations require you to leave your home at 36 to 38 weeks to await the birth of your baby in an unfamiliar city.
If you would like to learn more about the Restoring the Sacred Bond Inititave, please feel free to start a conversation.