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Perinatal Services
BEE’s Perinatal Services support pregnant and postpartum families while strengthening a community-based birthworker workforce rooted in the knowledge, culture, and lived experiences of the communities we serve.
As South Carolina’s first National Perinatal Safe Spot, BEE provides a community-based place where pregnant and postpartum families can access support outside of traditional medical settings. Services include prenatal, labor, and postpartum doula care; childbirth education; breastfeeding and lactation support; basic-needs and crisis assistance; peer support; maternal health advocacy; and connections to additional community resources.
Our work also invests directly in the birthworker workforce. BEE has trained community members as prenatal, labor, and postpartum doulas and helps birthworkers access additional certifications, professional development, mentorship, liability coverage, and opportunities for paid community-based practice.
Through our partnership with the Southern BEE Alliance Cooperative, we are also working to strengthen the economic stability, leadership, and collective power of birth and care workers.
Key areas include:
- Perinatal Safe Spot
- Prenatal, labor and postpartum doula support
- Birthworker training and workforce development
- Childbirth education
- Breastfeeding and lactation support
- ACTT for Safe Motherhood advocacy and facilitator training
- Crisis and basic-needs support
- Peer and community support for pregnant and postpartum families
Mission
- Bring together birth workers from diverse backgrounds.
- Address maternal and infant mortality and morbidity.
- Connect new generation birth workers with elder midwives.
- Co-design solutions for the Maternal Health Crisis.
- Empower our communities to control narratives around birthing, breastfeeding, and mothering.
Initiatives
- Birth Worker Scholarship Program. Interested in joining our Collective and being trained as a birth or postpartum doula? Fill out this application and be added to our interest and waiting list.
- National Perinatal Safe Spot(see Infographic). Visit our lending library link for help
- Childbirth Education, Healing Circles and Mini Retreats and ACTT for Safe Motherhood Advocacy Trainings
- ACTT Facilitator Training for Birth Workers.