Journey Midwife Services

11/06/2025

ImmunityCommunityWA.org provides information, tools, and resources for parents and providers to protect our community from diseases vaccines prevent.

11/06/2025

Global Perinatal Services is excited to introduce Doulas On Demand! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

A new program that connects laboring individuals at birthing facilities with doulas for support during labor and delivery.

We’re building a compassionate network of doulas making birth support accessible to all — and we’d love for you to be part of it!

Why Join Us:

✅ Get paid quickly for every birth you support

✅ Flexible, on-call opportunities

✅ Meaningful work supporting diverse families

✅ Simple process: accept → support → document → get paid

Take the survey on our website via link in bio. QR code

📩 Questions? Email us at info@globalperinatal.org

11/06/2025

What a great resource!

Hey everyone! I'm starting up my lactation lounges on zoom! Get support with your lactation journey. Wether you are pumping, bottle feeding (human milk or formula or a combination), need help with a latch, are pregnant and have questions. This is your place to come get help in the comfort of your own home. I live in Washington state, currently living on Chinook Territory and started my journey in the lactation world in 2019 shortly after I had my own little baby. I lactated with my kiddo for almost 5 years. As a woman of color I had to unlearn negative body image when it came to my chest, I embraced the amazing gift I could give my child, and I learned a lot about my mammaries for the first time. It really is about relearning the knowledge that has been lost or taken from us and spreading that knowledge and wisdom. Now I am 3 years into my journey to become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant by the end of 2027. Use the QR code or bitly link to Register and join to come lounge and ask questions.

11/04/2025

Need breastfeeding support?

Our FREE Lactation Drop-In Clinic is open Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9AM–5PM at 2319 SW 320th St, Federal Way!

Whether you’re a new mom or just need a little extra help, our friendly lactation consultants are here to offer personalized, practical advice — in-person or online

Call or text 1-888-260-1426
Multilingual support available

Let’s make breastfeeding a smooth and supported journey — together!

11/03/2025

Highly recommend!

10/30/2025

It’s time for Root MEDICINE! Join us on the farm for a full day of digging up our medicinal plants, making medicine and taking home rootlets for your garden! We will work with elecampagne, horseradish, marshmallow, valerian, and more! We will make fire cider, oxymiels, and maybe some spicy horseradish dip to take home!
This is a community event open to all, BIPOC centered! Bring muddy rain and garden clothes, a potluck dish and a water bottle!
We pull up our roots and divide them into 3, one to make medicine with, one to put back in the garden, and one to pot up for community. We’ll also take this time to give offerings to the soil, and reflect on our own root work of late fall!
Please let us know if you will join us, and bring loved ones and littles! There will be jobs for all ages and abilities!

10/28/2025

Please consider donating cash or food to your local food banks for those who won’t be receiving their SNAP benefits as of Nov 1 due to the federal shutdown

⚠️ IMPORTANT UPDATE! The USDA has announced that November SNAP benefits will not be paid to nearly 900,000 Washingtonians who rely on them. ⚠️

We're sharing here some critical resources and guidance for families whose food access is at risk:

Find Support:
🥕 Emergency Food Network: efoodnet.org/find-food
🍎 Hunger Free Washington: hungerfreewa.org
🥫 Find a Little Free Pantry in your neighborhood: thelittlefreepantries.org
🧅 Food LifeLine Food Map: https://foodlifeline.org/find-food
☎️ Call 2-1-1 or visit 211.org
🛒 S**O Community Market - 1915 4th Ave S (closed Tuesdays) https://www.northwestharvest.org/our-work/community-programs/sodo-community-market/
🍞 Seattle Food Committee: https://www.seattlefoodcommittee.org/
🥪 Check with your local churches and community organizations, Like Community Dinners (communitydinners.com/gatherings), that may be hosting food drives, serving meals, or providing food assistance

Plan Ahead this Week:
💡 Start meal planning now and take inventory of the foods you currently have.
💡With remaining October food benefits, prioritize shelf-stable, bulk, and low-cost items. * Note that any unused benefits will roll over and only expire after 274 days of EBT card inactivity.

Use Additional SNAP Programs:

If you have a remaining balance on your EBT card, you can participate in the following SNAP programs to receive additional benefits for fresh fruits & vegetables:

🍐 SNAP Produce Match - buy $10 of fresh, frozen, or canned fruits and vegetables with your EBT card at participating grocery stores and receive a $5 produce coupon: https://doh.wa.gov/you-and-your-family/nutrition-and-physical-activity/healthy-eating/snap-match-programs/snap-produce-match

💵 SNAP Market Match - visit a participating farmers market or farm stand to receive SNAP Market Match dollars. Simply visit the information booth and swipe your EBT card for the amount you’d like to spend. Participating markets will match $25 or more per day in Market Match dollars for you to spend on produce: https://doh.wa.gov/you-and-your-family/nutrition-and-physical-activity/healthy-eating/snap-match-programs/snap-market-match

⚕️ Fruit & Vegetable Prescription Program - The Washington State Department of Health’s Fruit and Vegetable Prescription (FV Rx) Program works with health care centers in Washington to prescribe fruits and vegetables to patients who are food insecure. Patients receive paper vouchers valued at $250-$500 over six months, redeemable at Safeway stores. Find out if you qualify: https://doh.wa.gov/public-health-provider-resources/public-health-system-resources-and-services/funding/fruit-and-vegetable-incentives-program/fruit-and-vegetable-prescription-program

If you have any unused benefits from any of these programs, you can still redeem them during the month of November.

10/23/2025

The 2025 Cochrane review on immediate and early skin-to-skin contact after birth highlights that further randomized controlled trials comparing skin-to-skin contact with ‘usual care’ are no longer ethical.

The findings show there is now enough evidence to make immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth the global standard of care, and as WHO already recommends skin-to-skin the standard of care, the authors argue that randomizing the separation of mother and newborn may no longer be justifiable.

Read more:
https://centerforbreastfeeding.org/cochrane-review-2025

10/18/2025

Limited spots to become a Black peer counselor for lactation support!

Be apart of the movement of Black Breastfeeding, become a peer educator!

We're excited to bring Jada Metcalf of The Milk + Honey Co., Director of IMPACT Doula Training, to BLKBRY for the IMPACT Community Breastfeeding Wellness Advocate Training. This is our last training before we move into organizational rest for the remainder of the year.

This training blends evidence-based education, cultural wisdom, and peer-to-peer learning to equip participants with real tools to support families and build community-based lactation care.

✨ About the Facilitator
Jada Metcalf brings over nine years of experience in birth and lactation education across Atlanta. Her work is grounded in community transformation. Beginning in 2018 as a Community Transformer for ROSE and expanding into full-spectrum maternal health during the pandemic of 2021. She has served as Secretary of the Georgia Breastfeeding Coalition and was recognized with the 2022 United States Breastfeeding Committee's Cultural Change Maker Award for her commitment to equitable, culturally responsive lactation care.

✨ Applications are now open! bit.ly/blkbryimpactbf

BLKBRY is covering the full cost of this training for 5 participants ~ spots are limited, so don't wait to apply!

10/17/2025

🌻 You’re invited to join our third childbirth education class in a quarterly series. This course centers our pregnant Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian/Kānaka Maoli, Indigenous Pasfika/Pacific Islander relatives.

Fireweed Connections is excited to partner with our very own, LeChanté Raiwalui (Fijian/Black Doula and HIFS Emotional Wellness Bestie). She will be accompanied by our other fabulous HIFS Home Visitor and Birthkeeper, D’Ana Valenzuela (Chicana/Chihene Ndee) for skills share.

📍This *2-day workshop* will be held at the Hummingbird office in Columbia City. (Address is in the registration link.)

🗓️ Saturday and Sunday, October 25th & 26th
⏰10 AM – 2 PM

🍴Lunch will be provided and various parent and baby gifts will be given at the end of each day.

🪑Space is limited to 10 pregnant individuals. Partners and/or supporters are strongly encouraged to participate in this workshop.