EBB 152 - Shafia Monroe on Traditional Black Midwifery, Spirituality, and Community Advocacy

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast episode, we're going to talk with Shafia Monroe about the role of the traditional midwife.

Shafia Monroe is a public health professional, a midwife, a motivational speaker, founder of the International Center for Traditional Childbearing, or ICTC, which was the first US-based black midwives and doulas professional organization. Shafia is also an author, infant mortality prevention specialist, doula trainer, and president of Doula Ready LLC. Since 2002, she has trained thousands of people in doula trainings, with one-third of them going on to become midwives. In 2012, Shafia received her Master of Public Health from Walden University. In 2014, she opened Shafia Monroe Consulting, a cultural competency training service. Shafia has received numerous awards for her work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Midwife Hero Award.

In this podcast, Ms. Monroe discusses the history of Black traditional midwifery and incorporating spirituality into birth work. We also talk about Shafia’s experience becoming a traditional Black midwife, along with her passion for advocacy in birth work through her doula program and her community.

**Trigger Content Warning: This podcast episode discusses racism and infant loss.**

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Shafia Monroe about the role of the traditional midwife.
0:06.4	Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence
0:17.1	Space Birth.
0:18.3	Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families and
0:24.1	professionals around the world. As a reminder, this information is not medical
0:28.8	advice. See EBBirth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:35.0	Everyone and welcome back to the Evidence Space Birth Podcast.
0:39.0	Before I introduce our honored guest, I just want to give you a brief trigger warning. Today's episode
0:44.0	we'll discuss infant loss and racism.
0:46.5	How everyone today I am thrilled to welcome Shafia Monroe to the evidence-based
0:51.5	birth podcast.
0:53.0	Shephia Monroe is a public health professional, a midwife, motivational speaker,
0:57.6	founder of the International Center for Traditional Childbearing or ICTC, which was the first U.S. based Black Midwives and Dula's professional
1:05.4	organization.
1:06.4	Shafia is also an author, infant mortality prevention specialist, Dula trainer and president
1:12.1	of Dula Ready LLC.
1:14.0	Since 2002 she has trained thousands of people in Dula trainings
1:18.0	with one third of them going on to become midwives.
1:20.0	In 2012, Shefia received her master of public health from Walden University, and in 2014,
1:26.6	she opened Shefia Monroe Consulting, a Cultural Competency Training Service.
1:31.0	Shefia has received numerous awards for her work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award and the
1:35.6	Midwife Hero Award.
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