Mothers Postpartum Justice

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Mothers Postpartum Justice

1. Share postpartum traditions and wisdom
2. Expose maternal health inequities
3. Uphold justice in Black and Indigenous communities
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05/19/2024

You know what today is right? 📆 ✨ POSTPARTUM JUSTICE DAY! 🥳

Founded and made official in 2019 in the city of Berkeley, California by our beloved team made of trailblazers! Go us 💫

We created today as an officially established day of recognition to honor, celebrate and respect postpartum traditions. We are deeply devoted to creating a postpartum culture that addresses our collective responsibility to postpartum mamas and birthing people, hence the creation our crucial programs!

We’re calling on our community to support & uplift us by donating and sharing our campaign 👏🏾💛🌿

Every dollar raised goes towards keeping our mamas nourished and our village abundant! ✨

💫click the link in bio💫

Happy Postpartum Justice Day y’all! 😌✊🏾💗

05/14/2024

✨Recap of our HUGs Cafe graduation ✨
We had such a beautiful cohort of mamas and it’s been truly such an invigorating part of our work at MPJ to bring community together in an intentional way that centers the postpartum experience 💜

Are you a Black mama who is wanting to build village postpartum? Then our HUGs Cafe program may be for you!

We gather three times a week at different Black owned cafes and we offer our mamas small stipends for meals. The little ones are, of course, welcome 💗🤱🏽💫

We hope to see you there! Rsvp link in bio 😌🙌🏾

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Thank you for hosting our beautiful gatherings! 💐

05/12/2024

Sending love to all mamas and birthing people today & always 🤎
At MPJ, we acknowledge that today can hold both many reasons to celebrate as well as reasons to grieve.

Sending love to all who are
🌿grieving the loss of a mother
🌿unable to be a mother but yearning to
🌿have lost a child
🌿are estranged from their mothers
and beyond 💫

May you feel held and nourished no matter where you’re at on Mother’s Day.

💗 feeling giving?💗
Consider donating to our programs that help uplift and support Black mamas postpartum by visiting the link in our bio!

Happy Mothers Day from MPJ 🌿

Photographer Unknown

05/05/2024

Today as we honor we acknowledge the barriers that many midwives of color face and celebrate those who are doing the work to combat Black & Indigenous maternal health inequities.

You truly are midwifing a better world through your advocacy and client-centered care 💜

Thank you to all of the midwives in our community who are truly putting in the work 💐💖✨

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05/03/2024

Thank you to for providing delicious meals to our postpartum mamas last week as a part of our NOURISH! program 😌🙌🏾

On the menu 🧑🏾‍🍳💕
Here’s the menu if you ever wanted to share or we can wait for more pictures next time

Baked southern Chicken, butter rice & steamed broccoli!
Tuscan style navy bean soup, blackened tilapia, mac n cheese & roasted veggies!

We ♥️ supporting local businesses at Postpartum Justice!

Through our NOURISH! Program in partnership with & we are able to feel Black mamas and birthing people for up to 6 weeks postpartum.

Want to support our work? ✨
Consider donating via the link in our bio 🤎

04/29/2024

Earth Day is everyday, and there is never a wrong time to speak about the environmental inequities that Black women disproportionately face. 🌍🤲🏾

Studies have linked estrogen related diseases like breast cancer to environmental factors like air pollution, which Black women are exposed to at much higher rates than their white counterparts.

How can we consider birthing healthy families and sustaining the wellness of our communities if we are exceedingly exposed to environmental toxicants that impact our reproductive wellness? 🤔

Not to mention that most cities are food deserts, so Black women and birthing people experience the highest rates of malnutrition in the US. 🙅🏽‍♀️

04/17/2024

Join us Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays to build village as new Black mamas and parents in postpartum 😌

We partner with local Black-owned cafes to provide a space to connect and normalize conversations around our postpartum healing journey!

Join us via link in bio to sign up for one of our weekly gatherings and eat some good food 💜

The little ones are of course welcome! 🙌🏾💫

You can also donate to our movement via link in bio. Every contribution counts to support and uplift our community of Black mamas! 👩🏽‍🍼🫶🏾💕

04/15/2024

It’s C-section Awareness Month and at MPJ we find it important to address the alarming cesarean rates within the context of the US medical system and around the world. ✨

A 2022 study revealed that the rate of primary cesarean deliveries was 22,5 per 100 live births.

While often times unplanned, after belly birth we can discover ways to honor ourselves and bond with our babies during the postpartum healing period. 💛

If you’re in a healing process after belly birth, you’re not alone. 🙏🏽

You can call on the love of family & community and affirm to yourself, “I am strong and capable of healing from a c-section. I trust in my body and in this process. I am worthy of love & support”

You’ve got this mama! 👩🏽‍🍼💕💫

04/11/2024

This , we are claiming the right to live and thrive despite racism, poverty, and structural policies that affect our access to quality and equitable reproductive health care.

We are incorporating the frameworks of human rights, social justice, and feminist theories of intersectionality into our activism, outreach, and scholarship. This , supports us and in the movement for better maternal, reproductive and birth outcomes for Black Mamas and birthing people!

04/09/2024

Black Maternal Health week is just around the corner! 🤎

But let every day be an opportunity to apply pressure to the systems that disenfranchise Black women & birthing people!

We need to talk about how essential is to the movement of combating maternal mortality! 💯✨

04/03/2024

🌾loving your postpartum body🌾

As our bodies change throughout pregnancy, as our bellies widen, our skin stretches to embrace the life that is growing inside of us. Often times we are reminded of this holding by the softness of our postpartum bellies.

This within itself is a rite of passage.

How are you taking time to love your changing body, and to honor it as it is? 🤎

📷 by unknown photographer

04/01/2024

Are you a Black or POC-owned food business who's looking for ways to nourish their community? The Nourish Postpartum Meals program is growing and we are ready to expand our delivery menu for mamas and birthing people enrolled in and health

We are open to partnerships that can provide:
-comforting and nutritionally balanced meals for postpartum healing
-50+ meals per month, once a month
-clear food labels with allergies in mind
-great communication and reliability

Tag your favorite chef or local restaurant! We look forward to meeting and supporting local Black and Brown owned food business in the East bay. DM us if you have any questions.

📸: 1st slide meals from

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Oakland, CA
94601–94615, 94617–94624, 94649, 94659–94662, 94666

Website

https://www.m2mpostpartum.org/

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