Science and Heart: The Next Chapter for Safer Births.
Science and Heart: The Next Chapter for Safer Births is a featured conversation with Dr. Camille Clare, incoming President of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
Dr. Clare will be joined by Dr. Joy Baker, and the two will explore what it takes to move from evidence to action in maternity care, including the clinical science, the systems that shape outcomes, and the human realities families carry into pregnancy, birth, and postpartum..
Healing Starts With Knowing
Join Dr. Michael H. Forde, a public health expert and Black health storyteller, and Dr. Valencia Walker, a nationally recognized health equity advisor, neonatologist, and founder of the Birthing the Magic Collaborative, for a grounded conversation on the history of health disparities.
Together, they will explore how policy, practice, and power have shaped the gaps we see today, why trust has been broken, and what it will take to rebuild it.
This session connects the why behind the data to what safer, more respectful care can look like right now for families and communities.
Safer Births: The Momnibus Blueprint for Maternal Safety
You must attend this candid, solutions focused conversation with Congresswoman Lauren Underwood, co-author of the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act.
Representative Underwood will share insights on the state of maternal health through a legislative lens, highlight key aspects of the Momnibus Act, and share how its policies can still strengthen care, close dangerous gaps, and save lives.
This is a blueprint for maternal safety, and a call to turn awareness into action.
Birth Power Book Club: Mother Country
This beautifully written book by Jacinda Townsend explores the collision of adoption and identity, motherhood and loss.
Pregnancy Pearls: Heart Health Matters
A virtual workshop on heart health in pregnancy, warning signs to take seriously, and practical steps to protect yourself during pregnancy and postpartum.
Advocacy Without Anxiety: Trauma-Informed Communication
Trauma informed tools for pregnant families and birth workers to communicate clearly, reduce dismissal, and escalate concerns for safer care
This workshop is ideal for new and expectant parents, and everyone who supports them, including healthcare professionals, doulas, lactation and breastfeeding educators, and family and friends.
ACTT Workshop: Speak Up For Safe, Person Centered Maternity Care
An interactive session for makers and thinkers to collaborate, connect, and spark new ideas.
Birth Power Book Club:Transitions. A Midwife’s Pregnancy Journal
Join Dr. Janet A. Williams, MSM, CNM, FACNM for a conversation about her new book, Transitions: A Midwife’s Pregnancy Reflection Journal.
This comprehensive, interactive guide to prenatal education brings a midwife’s perspective to the questions, decisions, and emotions that shape pregnancy. Created for expectant mothers, partners, and birth support teams, it makes pregnancy education accessible, engaging, and empowering.
Birth Power Book Club. "Mothering the Mother" with Shafia Monroe
From Shafia Monroe, MPH, a renowned midwife and doula trainer who has spent decades preserving and teaching African American birth and postpartum traditions, this book is a return to a truth our communities have always known: nurture the mother so she can nurture her baby.
These pages offer a clear, grounded vision of what sustained postpartum support looks like, what to say, what to do, what to bring, and how to show up with consistency.
Because new mothers do not need to “bounce back.” They need to be mothered, protected, and nourished, and they deserve nothing less.
Whole Body, Whole Birth: Community Support Models
Improving maternal health outcomes takes more than clinical care alone. Community-based support, including doula care and pelvic health physical therapy, can reduce distress, support recovery, and strengthen safety throughout pregnancy and postpartum.
This panel explores how doulas and pelvic health specialists partner with medical providers to create a more complete care team. Participants will gain clarity on the distinct role of a doula, how doula support differs from midwifery care, and when pelvic health physical therapy is most beneficial.
Navigate Maternity: Smarter Tools. Safer Moms. Stronger Outcomes.
High blood pressure disorders like gestational hypertension and preeclampsia can escalate quickly and often feel like normal discomfort—until they are not.In this webinar, Theadora James and Ariana McGee of Navigate Maternity share how medical-grade home monitoring and digital tools help families and clinicians recognize warning signs early and act quickly.
Together, Navigate 180, NavigateHER, and NavigatePRO create a closed-loop maternal care infrastructure supporting hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, cardiomyopathy, and postpartum cardiovascular risk.Designed for care teams, healthcare leaders, and moms-to-be, this session highlights practical strategies to improve maternal safety and outcomes.
The Sugar Story: Gestational Diabetes What to Know
Dr. Cassandra Henderson will translate the science into plain language, walk through testing and monitoring, and explain how gestational diabetes can shape pregnancy and delivery decisions. You will leave with practical steps you can take right away, along with the confidence to ask stronger questions and make informed choices.
Birth Power Book Club:"Birthing Justice " with Dr. Alicia Bonaparte
Join a reading and conversation with Dr. Alicia D. Bonaparte, co-editor with Dr. Julia Chinyere Oparah, as we explore how the book centers Black women’s voices as essential expertise and offers a clear blueprint for repairing a maternal care system that too often harms instead of heals.
Ready Before the Bump: Preconception Prep
Featuring Dr. Latonya Law, DNP, NP-BC, Jamila Batts, MPH, BSN, RN, and Dr. Janet A. Williams, MSM, CNM, FACNM, this workshop blends practical health guidance with mindset, support, and real talk about what it takes to feel ready.
This workshop blends practical health guidance with mindset, support, and real talk about what it takes to feel ready.
If you are thinking about pregnancy in the next year or two, or you just want to feel more prepared, this conversation is for you.
The panelists will break down what preconception really means in everyday language, and what to focus on now so you can start pregnancy feeling supported and informed.
Reproductive Freedom Train: An Afro-Futuristic Journey
The Reproductive Freedom Train is a metaphorical, virtual journey across the United States, modeled by the historical Underground Railroad and the Negro Motorist Green Book. The freedom journey will follow Black women, birthing people, their babies and families as they seek to “liberate” themselves from the bondage of racism, oppression, injustice and adverse outcomes in the reproductive healthcare system.
The stops that they encounter on the “Freedom Train” will allow travelers to experience individuals, organizations and/or events that will offer them support, education, healing, resources and inspiration to counteract the adverse impact and outcomes associated with reproductive injustice and disparities. Each stop on the journey will reflect the critical elements of reproductive justice, including birth equity, trauma-informed care, advocacy, cultural competency, and anti-oppression practices.
Slay Your Anxiety: Calm and Confident From Pregnancy to Postpartum
Pregnancy and postpartum can turn the volume up on worry, overthinking, and the pressure to do everything “right.”
In this Safer Births Now session, Dr. Alicia Hodge translates the science of anxiety into simple tools you can use in real time.
Participants will learn how to steady the nervous system, interrupt spiraling thoughts, loosen perfectionism, and communicate needs clearly during appointments and at home. The tone is nonjudgmental, supportive, and skills based, with a focus on helping mamas feel grounded and informed, not overwhelmed.
Your Passport to Perinatal Power - Simple Steps for Safer Birthing
Jennie Joseph, a nationally renowned midwife and founder of Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery, and her team share a practical, dignity centered approach to helping you and your loved ones navigate pregnancy, birth, and the early postpartum weeks with clarity and confidence.
This session focuses on what it looks like to be respected, listened to, and supported at every step, and how to build a care experience that protects your safety while honoring your choices.
You will learn concrete ways to strengthen communication with your care team, prepare for key decision points, and recognize when to ask for more information or a different plan.
The goal is simple: a safe birthing and parenting journey where your voice matters, your boundaries are honored, and your power and autonomy stay intact.
Delivery Day Playbook
Delivery day can feel like a blur of check ins, monitors, new faces, decisions, and paperwork. This session turns the hospital experience into a clear, calm roadmap. We will walk through what most people can expect from the moment they arrive through discharge, with plain language explanations of why things happen, what questions to ask, and what choices may come up. Participants leave feeling informed, steady, and ready to advocate for themselves without fear or overwhelm.
Who This Is For
Pregnant people in the second or third trimester, plus partners and support people who want a clear, realistic view of what hospital birth often looks like.
Birth Power Book Club: "Sackred Birth" by Dr. Karen Scott
Hospitals, health plans, and quality organizations often define safety as the absence of preventable harm, using declines in adverse physical outcomes as evidence of better care. Dr. Karen Scott places modern obstetric care in historical context, showing how a long-standing culture of neutral apathy and detached concern toward Black lives, rooted in antebellum anti-Black racism and misogyny, still shapes how quality is understood and evaluated.
Scott argues that prevailing obstetric quality ethics, leadership, measures, and methods overfocus on adverse outcomes while sidelining patient experience and community wisdom. In SACKRED Birth, she calls for a culturally and scientifically rigorous quality paradigm defined for, by, and with Black mothers and birthing people. Through community focus groups and consensus dialogue, she offers new norms and methods for interpreting childbirth care in ways that affirm Black humanity, power, and potential, rather than treating Blackness and Black births as pathology in hospital settings.
Delivery Room to Well Visits: Newborn Preventive Care & Immunizations
New parents are flooded with information about newborn tests, preventive medications, and vaccines, and much of what circulates online is not grounded in science.
This workshop cuts through the noise by walking through what is commonly offered in the hospital at birth and during early pediatric well child visits, explaining what each intervention is, why it is recommended, and what the evidence shows about benefits and risks.
Pediatricians Dr. Audrey Brewer and Dr. Tomitra Latimer will also share a practical approach for evaluating common claims found online, so participants can respond with clarity instead of confusion.
The session will also equips nurses, doulas, and other caregivers with confidence building language to address questions, reduce anxiety, and support families in understanding newborn protections and routine childhood immunizations.
An application for one hour continuing education submitted.
Fathers for Safer Births: Men Shifting Birth Culture
Join this dynamic panel featuring doulas, activists, and advocates who are expanding what support and advocacy look like in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Grounded in lived experience and community commitment, these men are helping families break generational silence, confront disparities in birth outcomes, and equip fathers to show up with confidence and clarity.
Expect honest conversation about masculinity, birth equity, and what it really means to speak up, stay present, and protect mama and baby's safety.
Modern Tools For Safer Births
Katherine Sylvester and Rachell Dumas take you inside the tools they built to protect moms in real time. Rachell will share how HEARD, an AI powered patient advocacy platform, helps you document what is happening, recognize patterns, escalate concerns safely, and communicate clearly with your care team.
Katherine will share how MommyMonitor uses wearable data and remote monitoring to help you track trends between visits, flag concerns earlier, and access support.
This session is also about integration. You will learn how to build these tools into your pregnancy care plan, and how to use data and clear language to advocate for timely evaluation. We will walk through what to do next when something doesn't feel right, from how to describe symptoms in a way that gets attention, to when to insist on being seen, to how to escalate if you are dismissed.
You will leave with practical steps, scripts you can use, and a clearer plan for using HEARD and MommyMonitor as part of your day to day support during pregnancy and postpartum.
Reset And Restore: A Virtual Sound Bath Experience
Why A Sound Bath Can Help
Many people notice that steady, soothing sound helps the body shift out of “on alert” mode and into a calmer state. During a sound bath, attention naturally moves from busy thoughts to sensation and breath, which can support mindfulness and emotional steadiness. Participants often report feeling more grounded, less tense, and better able to rest afterward.
Some people also notice improved sleep quality and a lighter mood. Benefits vary from person to person, and the experience is best understood as supportive wellness practice, not medical care.