Sumi's Touch

Sumi's Touch Sumi's touch provides: full spectrum doula services, placenta medicine services, and birth tub ren

Sumi's Touch Birth and Postpartum Services provides emotional, spiritual, educational, and non-medical physical support to those seeking to become pregnant, throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. These services include: Abortion and bereavement doula, birth doula, postpartum doula, pregnancy and postpartum ceremonies, placenta medicine, trainings, and workshops.

This year you have 2 opportunities to join us: Mexico, Yucatán June 25- July 5 Ghana, West Africa Dec 10-20 One to thing...
03/29/2026

This year you have 2 opportunities to join us:

Mexico, Yucatán
June 25- July 5

Ghana, West Africa
Dec 10-20

One to thing is for sure…you will NOT walk away the same as you walked in. If you’ve been craving a shift, a change, transformation…then this is especially for you!

10 days of being deeply immersed in the most sacred aspects of this work.

Calling all birth workers and those who work with pregnant, birthing, and postpartum folks!

Comment “immersion” and I’ll share all the deets with you!

Info session happening THIS morning…link in my bio to join us! If you miss it, don’t trip! still register so I can send you the recording.

Only a few seats left for Mexicoooooo!!!!

03/19/2026

🤰🏾Black Maternal Health Fest 2026 🤱🏽

We are centering Black vitality, Black joy, Black Resilience!

What: 2nd annual Black Maternal Health Festival

When: May 2-8th, 2026

Where: 100% virtual!!!!

Why: To raise funds for the Black midwives fellowship and to raise awareness of the Black maternal health crisis AND solutions!!!

Comment “festival” and I’ll slide in your DMs with the link to join us!! Hurry cuz early bird tickets are limited!

03/19/2026

🤰🏾Black Maternal Health Fest 2026 🤱🏽

We are centering Black vitality, Black joy, Black resilience!

What: 2nd annual Black Maternal Health Festival

When: May 2-8th, 2026

Where: 100% virtual!!!!

Why: To raise funds for the Black midwives fellowship and to raise awareness of the Black maternal health crisis AND solutions!!!

Comment “festival” and I’ll slide in your DMs with the link to join us!! Hurry cuz early bird is tickets are limited!

03/13/2026

!!!PRICE UPDATE!!!

Yall told me you felt so deeply called to join us but the cost was the only thing prohibiting you. So guess what I did? I listened!! I went back to the drawing board and found accommodations that are just as beautiful but for a fraction of the price! This allows me to be MUCH more flexible with the cost. Making it accessible yet sustainable is always the goal!

So if you’ve been like Sumi I really want to join yall…don’t hesitate and don’t wait!! I GOT YOU!!

In both Mexico and Yucatan we will be meeting with and sitting at the feet of local indigenous traditional midwives. We will be visiting Mamas and caring for them. We will be connecting with the land.

This isn’t a training. The immersions are a 10 day initiation that will catapult you into all that you called to me in this moment. It’s a launch pad to your next iteration!

If you don’t know you beta ask around!!!

So comment “Immersion” and I’ll slide right into your DMs with everything you need to know to join us!

Mexico June 25 - July 5

Ghana December 10-20

03/12/2026

Growing a baby in your body then having that baby come out of your body is so sci-fi!!!

I remember seeing my wet squishy chunky baby on my chest for the first time and just being mind blown that my body made another human from scratch 🤯

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03/12/2026

“They ddnt push them out because they we’re dangerous…they pushed them out because they were competition”

Save the date: Black Maternal Health Festival 2026 May 2-8th!!!

Doors open SOOON!!!!!! Yall ready to really sit with how we can actually and practically eradicate the Black Maternal Health Crisis?

What say you???

BLACK MIDWIVES FELLOWSHIP 2026 The second cohort applications for the Black Midwives Cohort is now LIVE!!! From October ...
03/09/2026

BLACK MIDWIVES FELLOWSHIP 2026

The second cohort applications for the Black Midwives Cohort is now LIVE!!!

From October 6-29 we will venture to birth center in rural northern Uganda. This high volume birth center practices the midwifery model of care which is rare to find in its true authenticity.

The center has experienced 25,000 birth and has NEVER lost a mom! If you are a Black student midwife or a newly practicing midwife seeking to cultivate life saving clinical and community building skills then apply to join us!

I first went to in 2016 toward the end of my midwifery studies. I was born into a midwife there. The manner in which I practice today is deeply influenced by the beautiful community based care I was immersed in.

If you are feeling called. Join us!

Applications are open until April 3rd,2026!!!

Please email us at midwiferyfellowshipug@gmail.com with any inquiries or clarifications needed.

Please note we will be announcing the dates for our info session soon!

Comment “fellowship” or visit the link in my bio to apply!!!

03/06/2026

Shaking ass is a crucial part of my existence. Every single space I curate be it on person or online we carve out time to get deeply in our body.

If you’ve taken my virtual traditional birth worker training then you know our culminating session we always have lead us in a dynamic twerk class!!

If you have come to the immersion a you know we always danccceeeee at some point!! Be it in the club or the living room!!

Moving our body is indigenous and revolutionary in a system that is centered in commodifying our vessels. It’s how we reclaim our autonomy and exercise our agency!

So will I be seeing you this year? Virtually or in person?

03/02/2026

I remember when I first learned of the doll test. It was undergrad at SF state during an Africana Studies class. I forget which one but i remember how profound this test was. How do we learn to hate? To have bias? To have prejudice?

A few years later while training to be a teacher for freedom school in Oakland we conducted this test on the children. The results were consistent with what Dr. Clarke and his wife found. Black children internalized negative self image and biases based upon social conditioning even at such young ages. We conducted the test at the beginning of the children entering the camp and then at the end. In just 6 short weeks their self image and self efficacy increase substantially!

When we talk about implicit bias in the medical field contributing to poor outcomes for Black birthing people and Mothers, it goes much deeper than what provider have learned during medical, nursing, or midwifery school.

This bias penetrates deeeply within the fabric of socialization. It’s the reason that even though Black people experience extreme discrimination we still choose and many even prefer to receive care from the system which harms them. It’s the reason that having a Black doctor isn’t enough.

Racism is the cause not race. It’s the systemic and personal bias that Black peoples are inferior that causes poor outcomes. Not our biological makeup.

What would you add to this conversation?
How do you think your child would do in the doll test?
What do you think your provider would choose when they were a child on the doll test?

If you want to look up the original test search for Dr. Kenneth Clarke and his Wife Mammie Clarke “Doll test” 1940. It’s worth your time….

02/28/2026

Can I saturate yalls time lines with some Black Maternal Joy on this beautiful Saturday?

The midwifery model of care centers the mom and baby holistic experience as they journey through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Midwives provide a broad spectrum of care from menarche to menopause. This includes treating menstrual, reproductive and hormonal imbalances, ailments, and conditions to preconception support. Midwives provide comprehensive care through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum and can track both the mom and baby to assure they are healthy. Midwives can independently care for their clients and will refer to specialist when indicated like an obgyn, MFM, Chiropractor, Nutritionist, etc.

The midwifery model of care is rooted in a integrative collaborative model that thrives when able to coexist amongst other practitioners. The midwifery model of care centers the client’s needs and voice and see the client as the one driving the vehicle and an expert of their own experience. Midwives consider the emotional, mental, spriritual, and physical well being in all practices and procedures.

Pregnancy and birth are seen a physiological events in nature that rarely need assistance rather than a medical event that requires intervention almost always.

Midwives provide a golden standard of health care that has stellar outcomes all across the board. This is the antidote and the answer to the maternal health crisis.

Drop your questions below and I’ll be sure to get to them!

Would you have a home birth? Have you experienced the care of a midwife?

Get ready for the launch of both the 2nd annual Black Maternal Health Festival AND the 2nd cohort of the Black Midwives Fellowship!!!

Deets dropping VERY soooonnn…..

Wow do yall remember this? I’m not surprised but what the actual f**k?????? Can we dig into this a bit together? The med...
12/04/2025

Wow do yall remember this?

I’m not surprised but what the actual f**k?????? Can we dig into this a bit together?

The medical industrial complex has crafted its procedures and stances based on the exploitation and experimentation of Black and indigenous bodies. This case doesn’t exist in a vacuum but rather is aligned with exactly how they “research”. There are so many levels of ethical and human right violations here. They will assert that the fetus deserved to live and that they are pro life…but the truth of the matter is the life of Adriana was seen as disposable. She was ignored and her symptoms were diminished….this led to her death. She was only 9 weeks pregnant and they kept her on life support for months as an incubator. does this sound familiar (the two laboring women that went viral who were denied care). Do you see how this is alllllll connected? The anti Black racism and discrimination is systemic not individualized. So no one person or even group of people can overturn such heinous acts!!

There isn’t any gutting the system from the inside out. There no optimizing the system. There’s no infiltration that will ever stop cases like these from happening….

We must create NEW systems, NEW networks of support, NEW beliefs and have our priorities reevaluated as a collective.

What say youuuuuuuuu???

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Want to become a birth worker? Comment “training”. Only $99/ month until 12/31

Want to sit at me and my teachers feet in 2026 and learn the way of traditional birth work? Comment “Ready” and I’ll send you the link to put down your deposit today!! Save $1,000 until 12/31 !!

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