St. Louis American

Jamaa Birth Village, Generate Health together launch the St. Louis 360 Doulas Initiative

Over the last few years, Jamaa Birth Village has instilled new hope for pregnant Black women across the St. Louis region, where the county’s maternal death rate is 37% higher than the national average ...
St. Louis American

Jamaa Birth Village holds annual baby shower

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Jamaa Birth Village will open midwifery sites across Missouri: 'The need is there'

Jamaa Birth Village plans to open satellite midwifery birthing locations across Missouri next year. Patients can receive midwifery and doula care and social support services in areas with few options ...
KSDK

Jamaa Birth Village: Breaking barriers to maternal health care for Missouri women

FERGUSON, Mo. — In Missouri, data shows black women have higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates than white women, one St. Louis area organization is trying to change that one life at a time.
KSDK

Missouri's first Black-owned midwifery clinic hosts 'blessings baby shower'

FERGUSON, Mo. — Striving for a safer childbirth city is the mission of one St. Louis-area maternal health organization. Jamaa Birth Village specializes in midwifery and Doula care services and ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Jamaa Birth Village in Ferguson adds school, library and a museum of Black midwifery

Okunsola M. Amadou, center, the founder of Jamaa Birth Village, hugs board member Sandy Thornhill as Queen Mother Sula, right, from the Temple of Light in New Orleans, sings a traditional song during ...
AOL

Birth center opens to address needs of Black mothers, families

“Our birth center is definitely different,” said founder Okunsola M. Amadou. For nearly a decade, the founder of the Jamaa Birth Village in Ferguson, Missouri has had one simple goal, and that is to ...