A Nurturing Time for Moms & Babies at Pacific Birth Collective
Morea Mendoza, Pacific Birth Collective’s Director of Leadership & Operations shares her experience:
MAUI, November 13 — At Pacific Birth Collective’s ‘Wellness Wednesdays’ - a weekly mother-baby group, where mothers take turn holding each others babies, allowing others to receive services from practitioners of various healing modalities, including massage and acupuncture, sessions in birth and parenting support, and today, participate in a session in the Love Peace Harmony Field. Over 20 pregnant or post partum moms and their babies, as well as midwives, Pale Keiki (traditional Hawaiian birth workers) apprentice midwives in attendance participated in singing the Love Peace Harmony song and doing Love Peace Harmony movement by tracing the calligraphy in a wonderfully calming, rejuvenating and much-needed nurturing experience for mothers.
The Pacific Birth Collective is a community designated hub providing essential services and supplies for mothers and babies they, and a space for the island community to access resources and professionals to help them through the journey of pregnancy, birth and post-partum. Their other main service is to provide networking & educational opportunities to the professionals providing services to the community. One of their pillar programs is a community birth project, connecting expecting mothers with birth workers, midwives, doulas, and Pale Keiki, including providing access for families to these practitioners through stipends. Another pillar programs is their donation center, ensuring mothers, especially those families affected by the wildfires, are able to receive their daily necessities and goods from the donation distribution center. Their farm to mother program, is a food box program that focuses on supplying foods with specific nutritional needs of pregnancies and post partum, in weekly deliveries, which are delivered either to their local hub or directly to their door, which is an essential for many mothers living in remote rural locations on the island.
Violet, an apprentice Pale Keiki - a traditional birth worker - shares about her role and also her experience after our Love Peace Harmony session:
The Pacific Birth Collective is operated as an LLC with grants coming in to help fund some of our programs through a non-profit fiscal sponsor. They are volunteer-led and driven by passionate people who are making supporting their community in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum their life's work. Click here to visit their website.