The Cypher Collective

03/05/2026

Meet the Midwives bringing The Learning Lab to life at the 2026 NBMA Conference!💜

Each instructor carries rich experience, cultural wisdom, and a deep commitment to advancing birth justice in our communities.

We’re honored to have these leaders pouring into the next generation of Black Midwives with skill, heart, and passion.

More instructors coming soon!

See y’all March 12th — it’s up from here. ✨

03/04/2026

✨ Meet the Midwives of The Learning Lab ✨

We’re honored to introduce the skilled instructors leading our sessions at the 2026 NBMA Conference on March 12th.

From clinical excellence to community-rooted care, each midwife brings years of experience, wisdom, and a deep commitment to reproductive justice and education.

Together, they embody what it means to teach, serve, and uplift the next generation of birthworkers.

Follow along as we prepare for an unforgettable Learning Lab experience. 🌿✨

03/02/2026

Can’t wait to see y’all there!

Calling all Students and practicing Midwives!

Full Day Pre-Conference Workshop with ✨

The Learning Lab is a full-day, immersive midwifery experience designed to build confidence through context. This pre-conference workshop includes instruction provided by a host of seasoned Black midwives committed to training confident, skilled, culturally grounded community midwives. It will take participants through the full arc of care—from the first prenatal visit to labor support, emergency response, postpartum care, and the fourth trimester. Expect didactic learning, hands-on skill practice, small-group rotations, real-time scenarios, and documentation woven throughout. You’ll practice clinical skills and strengthen communication, clinical reasoning, and your ability to respond clearly and calmly in a variety of situations.

Skill Stations & Scenario-Based Learning Include:

🤲🏽 Intake and history-taking
🤲🏽 Prenatal assessment (fundal height, Leopold’s maneuvers, fetal heart tones)
🤲🏽 Standard of care timeline (labs, imaging, testing, and shared decision-making)
🤲🏽 Poke Practice: IV starts, phlebotomy, and IM injections
🤲🏽 Cervical exams
🤲🏽 Shoulder dystocia response
🤲🏽 Postpartum hemorrhage management
🤲🏽 Pharmacology and medication decision-making
🤲🏽 Newborn assessment and documentation

Experience: Full-day, in-person learning with rotating skill stations, simulation, and guided case-based application.
Includes: Instruction, skill practice, printed materials, automatic raffle entry, and NARM PEP skill sign-offs.

Instruction is provided by Black midwives committed to training confident, skilled, culturally grounded community midwives. This offering is intentionally for us, by us.

Get your ticket now! Spots are limited! 🔗 More details on our conference website.

02/25/2026

✨ THE LINEAGE CONTINUES ✨
Today we uplift and celebrate another luminous force in our learning midwife community — T. Luna Imhotep-Amonoo.

Based in Cape Coast, Ghana, Luna walks her MidWombmyn journey with devotion, discipline, and a spiritual grounding that reflects the very heartbeat of our ancestral midwifery traditions. Guided by Teachers, Elders, and the timeless wisdom of those who caught before her, she carries forward a lineage that refuses to be forgotten.

For Luna, this path is sacred. It’s a calling shaped by the babies who chose her, the ancestors who named her, and the communities who continue to pour into her. Her commitment to Afro-Indigenous healing, traditional medicine, and international birthwork is a reminder that our heritage is not past tense — it’s alive, breathing, and returning to its rightful place.

✨ Her mission: to honor the teachings, uplift her people, and follow the charge to “Return and Get It.”
✨ Our mission: to surround her with the support, community, and love that ensures she never walks alone.

WAYS TO SUPPORT:
💛 Donate to her midwifery journey: Cash App — $TLuna12
💛 Learn more / connect through her website: http://aydhealwell.org/

Let’s continue sowing into the midwives who are reclaiming, restoring, and redefining the story of our lineage — one birth, one lesson, one return at a time.

02/22/2026

✨Books to Read During Black History Month!✨

This week, we’re highlighting books that reconnect us to Black birthing traditions, sacred knowledge, and the brilliance that has guided our communities for generations:

💛Mothering the Mother – Shafia M. Monroe
💛A Big Book of Soul – Stephanie Rose Bird
💛The Big Letdown – Kimberly Seals Allers
💛A Book for Midwives – Susan Klein, Suellen Miller, & Fiona Thomson
💛Grown Woman Talk – Dr. Sharon Malone
💛Spiritual Herbalism – Karen M. Rose

And our stories deserve to be held, studied, and passed forward.
Stay tuned—more book recommendations are on the way. 📖✨

02/17/2026

We’re calling out to our village! 🤲🏾💫

The Cypher Collective is gearing up for The Learning Lab at the NBMA conference , and baby… this space is about to pour into Black learning midwives in the best way.

This hands-on lab is where students tap into real clinical skills, ancestral knowing, and the grounding that makes our care so powerful. And to make it everything it needs to be , we’re calling on our village. 🤎

We are accepting supply donations and financial contributions to help us build an immersive, well-equipped learning space for future midwives.

🧡 Want to purchase items directly from our wishlist?
Here’s the link:
👉🏾 https://mywishlist.online/w/fljbkn/thes-wishlist

💛 Prefer to donate funds to support the lab?
You can bless the work here:
👉🏾 Venmo:

Every item, every dollar, every share helps us prepare the next generation of Black midwives with confidence, skill, and community behind them. Thank you for showing up for us always.

With gratitude,
The Cypher Collective x National Black Midwives Alliance 🌿🤍

02/16/2026

✨ THE LINEAGE CONTINUES ✨
Today we honor and uplift another brilliant light in our learning midwife community — Tarynn Anthony.

Based in Belton, TX, Tarynn is a first-year student midwife walking the PEP pathway with intention, humility, and deep reverence for the legacy of Black birth workers. Her commitment to physiologic birth, informed choice, and holistic family-centered care is already shaping the future of her community in a meaningful way.

For Tarynn, Black Midwifery isn’t just history , it’s the foundation. Even when overshadowed, it continues to breathe life, resilience, and protection into our families. And she’s determined to carry that torch forward where representation is needed most.

✨ Her goal: to educate, support, and help heal her community physically, mentally, and emotionally.

✨ Our goal: to surround her with the love, resources, and community she deserves.

Ways to support (links in our Spotlight highlight) :
💛 Donate to her midwifery fund: https://gofund.me/e0d2cad2c
💛 Visit her website: https://www.therootedsouldoula.com

Let’s continue pouring into the next generation of midwives who are preserving the traditions, stories, and power of our lineage.

02/11/2026

At The Cypher Collective, we honor the hands that caught us, the wisdom that sustained us, and the stories that refuse to be erased. This Black History Month, we’re diving into powerful works that center Black midwives, birth traditions, and the legacy of community care. 🤎

Here’s what’s on our shelf this week :

💜 Delivered by Midwives – Jenny M. Luke
💜 The Women Who Caught the Babies – Eloise Greenfield
💜 My Bag Was Always Packed – Claudine Curry Smith & Mildred Hopkins Baker Roberson
💜 Safe in a Midwife’s Hands – Linda Janet Holmes
💜 Listen to Me Good – Margaret Charles Smith & Linda Janet Holmes
💜 Sisters on a Journey – Penfield Chester

Black midwifery is legacy. It’s skill. It is not a trend.

Stay tuned… more book recommendations are on the way. 📖✨

02/01/2026

Today we honor a monumental milestone — 100 years of celebrating Black History Month. What began as a vision to preserve, center, and uplift Black excellence has grown into a global movement of remembrance, resistance, and reclamation.

Black History Month was founded by historian Carter G. Woodson, who understood that a people disconnected from their history are vulnerable to having their worth erased. His work planted the seeds for generations to learn, remember, and stand proudly in the fullness of Black brilliance.

Here at The Cypher Collective, we carry that torch with intention.

Our mission is to uplift, educate, and empower Black midwives — honoring our ancestral roots while supporting present-day practitioners and nurturing future generations. Throughout this entire month, we are centering Black midwifery because our presence in birth work is not new. We have always been here. We have always been the blueprint.

This education is free food for thought — nourishment for the mind, the spirit, and the lineage.

Black midwives have:
• Safeguarded our communities through centuries
• Held knowledge when institutions shut us out
• Protected Black families when systems failed

And we are still standing. Still serving. Still rising.

🖤 To the ancestors — we thank you.
🖤 To today’s midwives — we honor you.
🖤 To the next generation — we see you.

Happy Black History Month.
Let’s build. Let’s heal. Let’s thrive. 🌀

01/20/2026

ATTENTION BLACK MIDWIVES 🖤

The Cypher Collective is seeking instructors ( If you’re a NARM-registered preceptor, that’s a plus!) for The Learning Lab at NBMA CON 2026 on March 12, 2026.

Will you be in the building?
Do you feel called to pour into the next generation of Black midwives?
Do you carry skill, lived experience, and practice wisdom that deserves to be passed hand to hand?

This space is about legacy, accountability, and skill-sharing. No fluff. Just solid instruction, communal care, and protecting the future of Black birthwork.

👉🏾 Complete the interest form (link in comments).
We look forward to connecting and building together.

LearningLab EachOneTeachOne SacredHands

01/20/2026

MIDWIFE MOMENTS ✨
Featuring Learning Midwife Audrey

Prenatal visits aren’t just check-ins.
They’re where trust is built.
Where fears get named out loud.
Where we talk through what normal looks like—and what it means when birth takes a turn.

So when things shift, when the rhythm changes, the foundation is already there.
My client trusts my judgment because we’ve been walking together long before labor begins.

And in the corner, my preceptor—watching, listening, offering those quiet, validating smiles that say yes, you’re doing this right.
That kind of support? Priceless.

This work is sacred.
It’s a blessing to be invited into families’ lives at such a tender, powerful moment.
To witness love, preparation, vulnerability—and soon, the return of an ancestor through this baby.

I’m deeply honored to be here.
Can’t wait to welcome this little one earthside.

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