Sumi's Touch

✨Traditional Birth Worker Immersion✨

I spend a lot of time in deep reflection and planning outside of facilitating. 10 full days together goes by so fast yet it’s so much time, too. We gather from 9am until 7 pm each day. We have multiple breaks including a long lunch break mid day. On average we spend about 64 hours together learning…..we have two days reserved for excursions and connecting with local midwives.

Are you ready to take your skills to the next level? Then come join us this Monday 7/27 at 5pm pst for an info session where I’ll break it all down for you!

Comment “immersion” and I’ll send you the link to sign up. And guess what? If you come you can secure your seat for a deposit of only $1!!!!!!! Yes, $1 to hold your spot!!

Email if you have further inquiries [email protected]

✨Traditional Birth Worker Immersion✨

Yucatán, México 2026

So the first day is all about settling in….into our bodies, into the space, into the group setting, into our intentions for coming. We focus on ourselves and our connection to the work. From grief, inspirations, ideas, curiosities, fears, whatever mends to bubble up to make room for what we will learn and unlearn together….

Upcoming Immersions:

Ghana 12/10-20/2026

Mexico 3/11-21/2027

You can join us by sending a deposit for as low as $150….Remeber the more time you give yourself the more accessible it will be! Once you give your deposit I can make you a custom payment plan…

Next info session:

Monday July 27th at 5pm pst…join us to hear the complete breakdown of Ghana! You will leave clear grounded and ready to join us!

Comment “immersion” to get the deets for both the immersion AND the info session on Monday 7/27!

✨Traditional birth worker Immersion✨

Yucatán, Mexico 2026

I did much better this year documenting..lol yall wanna sneak peak into the immersions? Well buckle up because I’m gonna take you through each day!

This cohort took the curriculum to a whole notha level! Here we are day one before the students arrived. My dear Natalie Gabrielle touched down from Jamaica to support with set up and preparing to receive the students. She has attended 2 immersions and was apart of the inaugural cohort of the Black Midwives Fellowship. She has been sitting at the feet of mama Tioma Allison (elder midwife and herbalist) for the past decade.

This was the 9th cohort for the immersions since 2023. They have grown so beautifully yet each one is exactly what is needed. ✨Calling in cohorts 10 and 11 ✨

Ghana 12/10-20/2026
Mexico 3/11-21/2027

Comment “Immersion” if you are ready to join us! Only $150 to save your seat!

Stay tuned for the info session happening 6/27 at 5pm PST!

There’s no maternal health crisis..

Amongst midwives there is no crisis. And yes let me guess…what about high risk cases? What about situations where high levels of medical care are a necessity to ensure a healthy outcome.

Almost all maternal deaths have been assessed as preventable. Let’s start there.

During the 4 papers that released they took a different approach regarding the low risk high risk dichotomy. In the care model each individual is evaluated to see what needs they had and then they were met…simple!

The summary of the 4 papers was that the midwifery model of care consist of various practitioners and community resources that ensure each mama has all their needs met. This can be implemented in all settings for all people.

Join us for the festival as we uplift the midwifery model of care and raise funds for the 2nd cohort of the fellowship!!!

We will dance, get inspired, learn, strategize, and activate our joy as a tool of resistance!!

May 2-8th VIRTUAL!! Comment “festival” to learn more!! This is for ALL people not just Black people so PULL IP!!

🤱🏽🫶🏿🤰🏾Black Maternal Health Festival 🤰🏾🫶🏿🤱🏽

May 2-8th 2026

The lancet study is an esteemed research qbody. In 2014, they released a 4 part series on the midwifery model of care and its effectiveness in optimizing reproductive and infant health outcomes.

They found that with the implementation of the midwifery model of care we could prevent almost all cases of maternal deaths, still births, and neonatal deaths!

They outlined the midwifery model of care as a comprehensive approach not simply a professional role. They coined the framework for Quality Maternal and Newborn Care (QMNC) and asserted that it is aplicable in all countries and all settings.

On a global scale we are experiencing unnecessary adverse and poor outcomes that can be presented and this study proves that. Doulas are not the solution…but they for sure play an important accesory role within this holistic care network.

Why are so many…mostly doulas of color pushing back against this? Why are so many practitioners who were trained by the medical system pushing back against this? Why are so many mothers who did not receive midwifery model of care pushing back against this?

The most common argument I hear is that not everyone can birth outside of the hospital. That many need advanced levels of medical care or they will not survive pregnancy and birth. The midwifery model of care consist of many practitioners including doctors and specialist and is aplicable in all settings not simply home birth and birth centers.

If this feels stimulating, affirming, activating, sparks curiosty…come join me this Sunday for a FREE master class “Racism not Race: An Exploration of Black Maternal Vitality

Comment “festival” to sign up to join us for the Black Maternal Health Festival May 2-8th, 2026!! This virtual week of over 30 offerings to get you to dance, to laugh, to connect, to pray, to imagine our liberation!

Our liberated future looks like Midwives are accesible for ALL!!

There’s a lot of talk right now about the role of the doula. The game has changed immensely these past 2 decades that I have been a birth worker. We went from doulas being the assistant or apprentice midwife…or often doors were connected in some way or another to the care of midwives to being contracted hired trained and employed by hospitals or their partners. Overwhelming so there is a consensus that doulas being more accessible will optimize outcomes…they haven’t and they never will!

The “everyone deserves care” movement which aka means doulas has made many people see the expansion of doula care as optimal and progressive…it isn’t!

Midwifery model of care (which includes doulas but doesn’t position them as the exclusive or most strategic solution) is projected to drastically improve maternal and infant outcomes.

Simply because doulas aren’t primary care providers they do not have the ability to impact change. Doulas can only provide comfort and support to whatever the client is experiencing but they do not curate the care as midwives do alongside their clients.

In the countries where midwives are the primary care providers they have the best maternal health outcomes. Where as the US has horrendous outcomes and the care is led by pathologist and surgeons aka OBGYNs.

Midwives save lives!!! Midwives loooooves doulas!!

The midwifery model of care is integrative and collaborative by nature. It can exist no matter the setting or how high risk someone is. You don not have to be a midwife to practice within the midwifery model of care..you only have to care!!

I’ll share some peer reviewed studies that go deep into how the midwifery model of care is THE antidote to the maternal health crisis.

Meet us at the Black Maternal Health Festival to learn more and celebrate Black vitality!!!!

May 2-8th VIRTUAL!! Comment “festival” to grab your ticket!