Pregnancy & Birth Support for Young Parents #033

Your BIRTH Partners

This week we are thrilled to welcome SeQuoia Kemp of Doula4AQueen on to share about her experiences providing support to younger teen parents.
SeQuoia shares with us in this episode how her passion for supporting birth started when she herself was a teenager and how those formative experiences & her Black feminist roots impact the doula care she provides now.
~SeQuoia discusses how her public health background helps her to look broadly at all the systemic & structural factors that are impacting the pregnant person and may stop them from flourishing as parents.

~She explains how she is able to help birthing parents & their families address their own internalized bias around younger pregnancies.

~SeQuoia reflects on how teen parents can be encouraged to find joy as they approach parenthood, especially for Black women who often have many social limitations on their joy.

~We discuss educational tools and techniques that can help us to connect with younger clientele in engaging, approachable ways.

~She will also share the top 3 things we can do as birth professionals to relate to and support our younger clients during labor and birth.

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