Cherishing Life Beginnings Doula Service

Cherishing Life Beginnings Doula Service Founder of Cherishing Life Beginnings LLC & INC; Certified Doula, Instructor, Birth Coach, Specialist

11/28/2025

Sunflowers and Bubbles

One thing they will always say about Ife Birth Gatekeeper, she knows how to put an excellent team together. A traditiona...
11/28/2025

One thing they will always say about Ife Birth Gatekeeper, she knows how to put an excellent team together. A traditional midwife Kendra M-fiya, midwife assistant, ME, and student doula Kikeila Jennings, ready to serve our beautiful client Sharlena Porter and family.

I tried to step out of "the boots on the ground" birthwork and focus on another aspect of birthwork, training and education. Yet, when spirit says, 🤔 what the hell are you doing, you got mamas to take care of because the death rates in the hospitals even with all types of money being thrown at the the issue isn't a solution. My tribe, my community, all community based birth professionals in both the homesetting and hospital setting, and myself are NEEDED. WE are the solution.

Love and Light Family & To My New Village, Welcome. ✨My name is Ife Adebowale. Some call me Mama Ife, others know me as ...
11/28/2025

Love and Light Family & To My New Village, Welcome. ✨

My name is Ife Adebowale. Some call me Mama Ife, others know me as The Mother of Mothers, Keeper of Wombs,
Birthworker of the Old Ways, and The One Who Remembers.

I am a Holistic Birth & Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator, Student Midwife, Doula Trainer, Death Doula, and Community Builder. I walk with women from womb to tomb, from the first breath to the last, and everything sacred in between.

I do not operate in the realm of trend.
I move in the realm of tradition, intuition, ancestry, and embodied knowledge.

I am the Founder & Director Cherishing Life Beginnings Doula Service and Cherishing Life Beginnings Divine Mother Foundation, Inc. formly known as Cherishing Life Beginnings Doula Academy INC

Where we are currently:
🤰🏾Restoring birth as ceremony
🤰🏾Restoring postpartum as sacred healing
🤰🏾Restoring motherhood as divine initiation
🤰🏾Restoring community as the village again

This is not just work. This is calling. This is remembrance. We are not starting something new, we are returning to what has always been ours.

🧿 My Work Includes:
• Full Spectrum Doula Support
• Homebirth Preparation & Birth Education
• Traditional Postpartum Healing Training
• Womb Wellness & Herbal Medicine
• Sacred Nourishment HG Support
• Community-Based Doula Training (The Rebirth Project)
• Maternal Mental Health & Community Advocacy
• Sound, Ceremony & Grief Support
• Ancestral Death & Transition Doula Care
• Breastfeeding Support
• Free Community Events

We don’t just teach doulas. We raise healers, leaders, and lineage restorers.

📜 Features, Spotlights & Receipts (Because the Work is Documented)

2025
• HC1 $50,000 Grant Recipient - Community-Based Doula Workforce Expansion
• Health Conference 2.0 Excellence, Nomination in Healthcare Award & Outstanding Organization Award
• Hosted the 4th Annual Ancestral Starseed Celebration Sponsorship from R.O.S.E. and collaborative partnership with SHARE, Project Bear & Rachel’s Gift
• Tribe Ujima - Confidence Award
• Project Director - The Rebirth Project, training community-based doulas
• Created & Rolled Out the Sacred Nourishment HG Care Package & Support Program
• Midwife Assistance - Community Homebirth Support of 3 families

2024
• Newborn Supply Kit Collaboration with Baby2Baby + U.S. Health & Human Services
• Rebranded Nonprofit → Cherishing Life Beginnings Divine Mother Foundation
• Back to the Village of Traditional Healing - 3-Day Postpartum Training Bootcamp
• Featured in CanvasRebel & VoyageATL
• Student Midwife Birth Assistance - 5 Homebirths

2023
• Speaker - Birthing Radically: Education, Advocacy & Community Action
• Hosted Co-Ed Community Baby Shower
• Connections Matter Certification
• Canva Rebel Magazine Article
• Panel Speaker - Homebirthing as a Village
• 2nd Annual Ancestral Starseed Celebration - Down by the River
• Student Midwifery Clinical Retreat I

2022
• ShoutOut ATL Feature
• VoyageATL Feature
• Capital B News Interview
• WTVM Interview
• PPCM Fund Inc. Interview
• COVID-19 Oral History Archive Interview (Arizona State University)
• Podcast Feature - Self-Aware & F*ed Up
• 1st Annual Ancestral Starseed Celebration
• Created Overnight Postpartum Doula Services
• Online Class - How to Give Birth Without Fear
• Opened Shopify Store
• Authored Birth Guidance Journal & Planner Bundle
• 1st Holistic Postpartum Training Cohort
• Contracted with Stork Club & The Doula Network
• Girl Boss Award Nominee - Health Care Professional of the Year
• Trained 10+ Holistic Birth & Postpartum Doulas

✨ The Mission - To restore the village around the mother, return birth to the home, the heart, and the altar, to alleviate the mortality rates in cultural births in the hospital setting, teach, educate, guide and mentor birthworkers to become skilled, compassionate, intuitive, and ancestral, ensure no mother births alone, and to remind our people we have always been the medicine.

🕊️ If you’re here reading this, you didn’t just follow me. Your spirit recognized something familiar. Something ancient. Something remembered.

Welcome to the village.
Welcome to the womb.
Welcome home.

— Ife Adebowale, CD, CBEd, CDT, SM, B.A., M.B.A., PhD-ABD
Holistic Doula | Student Midwife | Womb & Legacy Worker
Founder, Cherishing Life Beginnings & Divine Mother Foundation

www.cherishinglifebeginnings.com
Contactdoulaife@cherishinglifebeginnings.com ✨

Mom Turned Away in Active Labor. Baby Born on the Side of the Road. And now, she is back in the hospital fighting post-b...
11/28/2025

Mom Turned Away in Active Labor. Baby Born on the Side of the Road. And now, she is back in the hospital fighting post-birth trauma and complications.

Let THAT s**t sink in!

On November 16th, Mercedes Wells did everything right. She went to the hospital. She told them she was in pain. She advocated for herself. And yet, a nurse did not believe she was in active labor and sent her home.

Eight minutes later, Mercedes gave birth on the side of the road.

Not in a safe, warm, supported environment. Not with midwives who listen. Not with a doula by her side. But on the road… with her body doing what it was created to do, unsupported and dismissed.

And now? Mercedes is back in the hospital with post-birth health complications, hemorrhaging, trauma, and pain, all because a system built to “protect” her did not honor her voice or her body.

The hospital later fired the nurse and the physician involved. But accountability does NOT erase the trauma. It does NOT restore trust. It does NOT fix the systemic problem.

Let me be VERY clear:

This is NOT a rare incident. This is not an “oops.” This is the reality of maternal care in America.

🔸 Black women are 3–4x more likely to die during childbirth than white women.
🔸 Over 60% of maternal deaths are preventable.
🔸 Disrespect, dismissal, and delayed care are major contributing factors.
🔸 And hospitals continue to send women home in pain, unheard, and in danger.

This is EXACTLY why homebirth is not a trend.
💫It is not an aesthetic.
💫It is not “alternative.”
💫It is not a luxury.

For many families, HOME BIRTH is a NECESSITY for survival.

In a guarded, over-medicalized system that too often ignores women, especially Black women, homebirths with trained community midwives and doulas offer something priceless and too often missing:
✨ Listening
✨ Respect
✨ Autonomy
✨ Safety
✨ Evidence-based support
✨ Compassion
✨ Continuity of care

A woman in labor should NEVER have to:
❌ Prove she’s in pain
❌ Beg to be believed
❌ Fight for urgent care
❌ Birth on the side of the road
❌ Return days later hemorrhaging because no one listened

Birth is sacred.
Birth is instinctual.
Birth requires presence, not dismissal.

Hospitals are important. But trust this:
🤰🏾Birth is safest where mothers are RESPECTED.
For thousands of women each year, that safety is found at home not because they are “brave” but because the system leaves them no other safe option.

To Mercedes…
To every mother who has screamed and been ignored…
To every woman who has been told “it’s not time yet”…
To every mother who knew her body and was dismissed…

We Cherishing Life Beginnings Doula Service hear you. We believe you. And we will continue fighting for you.

The village is rising. The reclamation of birth is happening. And homebirth with trained, community-centered midwives and doulas is not just a choice. It the ONLY solution. It is protection. It is NECESSARY.

11/28/2025

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Rising Beloveds 🌄✨Before we rush into the day… pause for just a second with me.Place your hand on your heart for 10 seco...
10/30/2025

Rising Beloveds 🌄✨

Before we rush into the day… pause for just a second with me.

Place your hand on your heart for 10 seconds. Breathe in slowly. Ask yourself:

🧐What energy am I choosing to rise with today?

Not what happened yesterday. Not what might come tomorrow. But today. Right now. In this breath. In this body. In this moment.

Choose one word 👇🏾
Then tell us why that word chose you.

Examples:
• Softness
• Focus
• Abundance
• Sacred Discipline
• Trust
• Flow

Let this be your declaration and alignment for the day. And let the village hold you in it. 🤎

SHARING ⬇️⬇️The SisterSong Birth Justice Care Fund is now open. This fund is a needs-based initiative created to support...
09/27/2025

SHARING ⬇️⬇️

The SisterSong Birth Justice Care Fund is now open. This fund is a needs-based initiative created to support Black, Indigenous, and other birthing people of color with financial and essential aid during pregnancy and up to one year postpartum. The program is currently focused on residents of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Florida.

https://form.jotform.com/243087625715158?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwMoB9RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp2QEtMKBoPbW2lJWfqUirW0h6UpkwufFBcoichLMQ68-_n8PmKCKFc9qAcB1_aem_P1pfU2p9wpYqqzzAjQCQDQ

🌻 Seed of Light Sponsor Spotlight 🌻We are grateful to SA-Ryza Alkebulan of Alkebulan Fitness for becoming a Seed of Ligh...
09/27/2025

🌻 Seed of Light Sponsor Spotlight 🌻

We are grateful to SA-Ryza Alkebulan of Alkebulan Fitness for becoming a Seed of Light Sponsor with a donation of $25 toward the 4th Annual Ancestral Starseed Celebration: Whispers of the Womb – They Came Through Us, Not to Us 💛

Your support helps us create a sacred space of remembrance, providing candles, sunflowers, resource bags, and offerings of love for families honoring their Ancestral Starseeds. Because of you, healing continues to grow in our community. 🌬️✨

✨ Would you like to become a Seed of Light Sponsor?

Donate here:
🌻 Online Form: https://pci.jotform.com/form/252417364729160
💸 CashApp: $QueenIfe
📧 PayPal: cherishinglifebeginnings@gmail.com
🟣 Zelle: Scan QR code or send to Latala Cofield

Every $25+ gift plants a seed of remembrance and light.

Thank you, Alkebulan Fitness, for helping us honor, uplift, and heal. 🌻

📅 Saturday, October 4, 2025
🕡 6:30–8:00 PM
📍 Lafayette Fountain Square, Downtown LaGrange, GA

🌻 Seed of Light Sponsor Spotlight 🌻Deep gratitude to Sista Yoga Kim Tucker of Fundisha Yoga and Mrt Thierry, Cherishing ...
09/27/2025

🌻 Seed of Light Sponsor Spotlight 🌻

Deep gratitude to Sista Yoga Kim Tucker of Fundisha Yoga and Mrt Thierry, Cherishing Life Beginnings Doula Service 1st African Male Postpartum Doula, for becoming a Seed of Light Sponsor with a loving donation of $25 toward the 4th Annual Ancestral Starseed Celebration: Whispers of the Womb. They Came Through Us, Not to Us 💛

Your gift plants a seed of healing that allows us to provide candles, sunflowers, resource bags, and sacred offerings of remembrance for families walking the journey of pregnancy and infant loss. Because of you, our circle shines brighter and our community feels more held in love.

✨ Would you like to become a Seed of Light Sponsor?
Donate here: https://pci.jotform.com/form/252417364729160

Thank you, Sista Yoga and Brother Rohi, for standing with us and helping us whisper love and light into the womb of our community. 🌬️✨

📅 Saturday, October 4, 2025
🕡 6:30–8:00 PM
📍 Lafayette Fountain Square, Downtown LaGrange, GA

🌻✨ Cherishing Life Beginnings INC & Cherishing Life Beginnings Doula Service is honored to share our Honorary Family In...
09/04/2025

🌻✨ Cherishing Life Beginnings INC & Cherishing Life Beginnings Doula Service is honored to share our Honorary Family In-Person and Virtual Invitation ✨🌻

The 4th Annual Ancestral Starseed Celebration is approaching, and we would be honored to hold space for you and your loved ones.

This year’s theme, Whispers of the Womb: They Came Through Us, Not to Us, is a reminder that even the briefest presence leaves an eternal light. We will gather as a community to say their names, honor their spirits, and celebrate their everlasting presence.

💛 If you or someone you know has experienced pregnancy or infant loss through miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, SIDS, or DV we invite you to be recognized as an Honorary Family during this sacred evening.

✨ As an honorary family, you will be included in our “Say Their Name” ritual and invited to place a token, photo, or item of remembrance on the altar. You will also receive a resource bag filled with items of love, light, and support.

📅 Saturday, October 4, 2025
🕡 6:30–8:00 PM
📍 Lafayette Fountain Square, Downtown LaGrange, GA

👗 Honorary families are asked to wear white in remembrance.
🌻 Please bring a small token, photo, or sunflower to add to the altar.

👉 Register here to be honored: https://form.jotform.com/251985672536167

Let us gather, remember, and celebrate our Starseeds together. 🌬️✨

At Cherishing Life Beginnings Doula Service & Cherishing Life Beginnings INC we know and understand that BIRTH is beaut...
09/04/2025

At Cherishing Life Beginnings Doula Service & Cherishing Life Beginnings INC we know and understand that BIRTH is beautiful, wonderful, and a joyous journey and new chapter in our lives, BUT sometimes, it’s not meant for our Ancestral Starseeds to remain with US Earthside. This is a FACT that is so hard to accept and move forward with and at times, you may not know what to do.

Let’s NORMALIZE not suffering in silence and finding aid to our issues. Did you know if your ancestral Starseed transitioned, there is a Doula for this type of situation?

Bereavement Doulas aren’t spoken about much but I want to change this. You have amazing community bereavement doulas ready and willing to serve you.

Interested in learning more, contact us at: www.cherishinglifebeginnings.com

Join Cherishing Life Beginnings Doula Service as we BUILD. I truly believe in visualization and manifestation. I have be...
08/16/2025

Join Cherishing Life Beginnings Doula Service as we BUILD. I truly believe in visualization and manifestation. I have been working on this design for years. It has taken 7 years to secure grant money to create our birth agency. That seems like a long time, and it is, but the foundation had to be built and the work to be done before monetary value was added.

I am eager and excited to see where the future of CLB is headed. We are small GIANTS in the birth field as we are rooted in community 1st. We do not cut corners, we are not a fade or trend, we weren't created because we selected this path, we were summoned, called to this work.

We are purposeful, culturally competent, advocates, educators, integrity-driven, and spiritually inclined birth healers that carry the voices, wisdom, legacy, and work of our ancestors.

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Columbus, GA
31906

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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+17065934824

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