Midwifing a Movement: Community Birth Centers and the Care Economy | Leseliey Welch & Indra Lusero
To help address the maternal and infant mortality crisis, birth justice advocates are realizing a vision where birth centers are commonplace and midwives are the leaders in care.
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature
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Show Notes
Leseliey Welch and Indra Lusero, parents and birth justice advocates, are helping to lead a movement to create community birth centers across the nation. To help address the maternal and infant mortality crisis, they’re realizing a vision where midwives are the leaders in care in a reclamation of the normal physiologic process of birth. They say birth centers provide racially and culturally reverent care founded in safety, love and trust.
Featuring
Leseliey Welch, MPH, MBA, is Co-founder of Birth Detroit (Detroit's first freestanding birth center) and Birth Center Equity, a mom and a tireless advocate for work that makes communities stronger, healthier and more free.
Indra Lusero is a Colorado licensed attorney, founder of Elephant Circle and the Birth Rights Bar Association, designed Colorado’s ambitious Birth Equity bill package.
Resources
Reclaiming Birth: The Movement for Safe, Reverent, and Equitable Maternity Care in America
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