04/19/2026
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Huddled in a patient room inside a mobile midwife clinic outside the Overtown Youth Center, a pregnant Venezuelan woman who brought her small child speaks with a student midwife to assess her prenatal care. She gets her blood pressure checked and a series of other screenings to ensure the safety of her next child.
She is one of four scheduled patients at the Southern Birth Justice Network’s newest Mobile Midwife Clinic on this warm but breezy April afternoon. It’s the kind of care co-founder and executive director Jamarah Amani envisioned she would one day provide.
At 19, Amani, then a college student at the University of Pennsylvania, went to her first prenatal visit with a detailed list of questions for her obstetrician. As she went through her list, the obstetrician suggested she talk to the midwife down the hall.
“[The midwife] spent two hours with me as a walk-in,” Amani said. “She got on the floor in yoga poses to show me how to manage my back pain.” The midwife listened to Amani, from her concerns about being a single mom to what kind of birth she wanted. And when the time came, the midwife was with her when Amani went into labor.
“That was just a special experience,” she said. “And I was like I want to do that for other women one day, but I was so young.”
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