Bringing Midwifery Home
Did you know that it's standard for people who birth with a midwife to receive postpartum care visits in their home? Well, The BMHCE believes that everyone should have access to midwifery care, including people who give birth in a hospital. Midwives are licensed by the Medical Board of California (the same board that licenses medical doctors) to provide comprehensive care prenatally, during labor and birth and in postpartum. The BMHCE now has a team of licensed Black midwives ready to provide clinical postpartum care to you and your baby in your home during the first 3 weeks postpartum.
BMHCE families will receive two in-home visits from one of our midwives to assess the health and wellbeing of the mom and the baby including: lab work, taking vitals, helping with lactation/feeding and screening for any postpartum complications like jaundice, infection and postpartum depression.
Our Team of Midwives
Kintsugi Class
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by joining pieces back together and filling the cracks with lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver or platinum, thereby highlighting the flaws in the mended object, and making it more beautiful. Kintsugi is also an aesthetic or world view characterized by embracing imperfection and treating healing as an essential part of human experience. With a Kintsugi mindset, we reframe challenges as opportunities.
Struggling to find hope and healing while managing co-parenting conflict, family litigation or intimate partner violence? This group employs practical tools and peer support to navigate parenting concerns. All information will be kept private and fake names can be provide to protect anonymity.
Perinatal Yoga
We are excited to offer this yoga class in collaboration with The Tree Yoga Collective (LA based) and Luna & Sol Healing Co. (AV based). This class will be provided in-person at our Ladera Heights Maternity Home or at the Kindred Space AV location. Currently pregnant and recently postpartum persons are welcome. Your baby must be with you at all times as childcare will not be provided. The Ladera Heights group is currently every Thursday at 10:00am. Address is sent upon registration.
Postpartum Support Group
BMHCE’s Postpartum Support Group: Embracing Joy in the Journey of Black Parenthood
Facilitated by Fareedat Ajibade MD, IBCLC & Nithya Ravindran, DO
Each session offers an opportunity to connect with other Black parents to share your experiences, fears, and successes. We will have bonding activities, breastfeeding support, and infant development education all in a nurturing space for culturally rooted mental and emotional wellness using mindfulness, trauma-informed care, art, music, dance, and storytelling.
All sessions will be held once a month at 2-3:30PM on Thursdays via Zoom. See the schedule for 2026 in the registration form below.
This is a nurturing space for culturally rooted mental and emotional wellness, including: mindfulness, trauma-informed care, art, music, dance, and storytelling
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
As a BMHCE participant, you will receive FREE sessions from a licensed physical therapist, Dr. Sydney Curls. This care option is available to all BMHCE clients that are either pregnant or within the first 6 months of their postpartum journey. Your allotted sessions can be split between your prenatal and postpartum period. We cover the initial consultation and six physical therapy sessions.
Mental Health Support
BMHCE works in partnership with Southern California Counseling Center to provide mental health support to our participants. The support options available are
1-on-1 counseling
couples counseling, and
family counseling.
You are eligible for up to 12 sessions both in-person and virtually.
Group Prenatal Care
BMHCE partners with local birthworkers to provide prenatal and postpartum midwifery care to Black Birthing persons in LA County. As a participant of this program, you are given access to 1-2 hour group sessions with your prenatal provider. You are not required to birth with any of the providers. This care can complement your current birth plan, including hospital-based and midwifery-based care.