South Shore Home Birth Midwifery

04/26/2025

📣EMPOWERED BIRTH is back!!!📣 Join Neighborhood Birth Center founder Nashira Baril and midwife Katherine Rushfirth to talk about your vision and goals for an empowered birth. ✊🏾🐣👶🏾This 2-hour workshop is for pregnant (or hoping to be pregnant) folks and their partners, and covers:

✨Understanding your values and options around pregnancy and birth
✨Choosing your provider and place of birth
✨Creating a birth plan

DATE, TIME & LOCATION:
💖Wed May 21
💖6-8pm
💖Bruce C. Bolling Building (Room 212), 2300 Washington St Boston 02119

GOOD TO KNOW:
🦋Free to attend! (registration required)
🦋BIPOC encourage to attend, all are welcome!
🦋Dinner will be provided!
🦋Please bring your chosen partner or support person!

SPOTS ARE LIMITED -- reserve yours today at the 🔗 in our IG bio or click:
https://neighborhoodbirthcenter.networkforgood.com/events/86141-empowered-birth-may-2025

02/24/2025

We are honored and excited to share the Indigenous Perinatal Preference Guides, created by lived experts—mothers, aunties, Birthworkers, and nurses! These guides empower Indigenous birthing patients to communicate their preferences, goals, and support systems in a way that is informed, safe, and culturally rooted.

Providers, we encourage you to share these guides with your Indigenous patients to foster respectful, collaborative care that honors tradition and strengthens connections.

🔗Access the guides here: https://hmhb-mt.org/native-american-initiatives/

07/12/2024

Help get CPM licensure across the finish line!
Your voice is needed to bring the Maternal Health Omnibus Legislation (S.2734 / H.4785) to the senate floor for a vote before this session ends! This bill encompasses many issues to help improve maternal health in Massachusetts. And it licenses CPMs! As many of you know I am licensed in Rhode Island because there is no path for a midwifery license in my own state. This bill not only licenses CPMs but allows CPMs to work/ run birth centers and establishes a CPM majority state board that will create the rules and regulations for licensed CPMs. It updates archaic birth center regulations and paves the way for the creation of birth centers across the state. It creates more support for maternal mental health, creates equitable pay for CNMs, mandates parental leave after pregnancy loss, and so much more.
It takes 90 seconds -- faster if you're a good typer :) to support this legislation. We need your help!

Update June 18: Great news! A major maternal health “omnibus” bill is up for a vote on the House floor this Thursday! This is a huge milestone, and YOU helped to get it this far.

08/07/2022

Posted by one of our warrior mamas Kasey Burrill

“At first it is something that happens to you, then it becomes something you do, then, many months after that, it becomes a relationship between you and ‘someone else.’” ~Ani DiFranco

“If you start to think about the whole line of humanity in your arms, your daughter with her eggs nestled neatly in her tiny ovaries, and the generations upon generations that come with that, your head might explode. Or your heart. With her cradled in the crook of my arm, I’ve pondered the possibility of time travel from my body through hers to those of her descendants. I’ve never felt like part of a whole more than in those reflections.” ♥️
Artist Fe Vilela 2018

04/21/2022

I find this so lovely and offers a connection to our heritage to be respected and honored.

04/16/2022

The last visit is always bittersweet, especially with this family. The sunshine made it a little better. Postpartum in the sunshine. Carolyn Warner

03/19/2022

This is great. So many strange aches and weird pains discussed weekly in clinic… a picture is worth a thousand words/ aches/ jabs!

Make room for baby!

credit: .s.art

03/13/2022

Dr. Amanda shares some simple, necessary wisdom. And, clearly, a beautiful example of practicing what you preach.