Black Birth Healer

Iya Mystique Hargrove (they/she)

Mission & Vision: 
To heal, protect, uplift, and empower marginalized communities through holistic doula and wellness services.

About Me:
Holistic, full spectrum birth worker providing Caribbean-Indigenous birth and postpartum practices while helping to transform perinatal, reproductive, and wellness spaces for Black, QTBIPOC, and LGBTQ+ marginalized communities.
Services & Classes:

• Labor & Birth Doula
• Full-Spectrum Doula
• Childbirth Education
• Lactation & Infant Feeding Education & Support
• Prenatal and Postpartum Mental Health Wellness Support
• Birth and Postpartum Planning Assistance
• Postpartum Doula and Newborn Care
• Reiki & Sound Energy

Experience:

• Over 10 years of mental health and wellness
• Over 5 years of full spectrum services (I.e. birth, postpartum, grief and loss, lactation education, childbirth education, newborn care)
• QTBIPOC, LGBTQ+, BIPOC community-based support
• Expert Review Board Member (Parents Magazine)
• Editorial Advisory Board Member (USLCA’S Clinical Lactation)
• Inclusivity Specialist in Prenatal and Postpartum Care, Support, & Wellness
• Mental Health Wellness and Perinatal Support Trainer

Certifications & Training:

• • • Certified Breastfeeding Specialist — Lactation Education Resources (LER)
    • Trained Newborn Care Specialist — The Cradle Company
    • Trained Evidence Based Birth® Instructor — Evidence Based Birth®
    • Certified Maternal-Child Health Community Health Worker – Commonsense Childbirth Institute
    • Certified Full Spectrum Doula — Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings
    • Certified Childbirth Educator — Commonsense Childbirth Institute
    • Certified Lactation Educator — Commonsense Childbirth Institute
    • Certified Reiki I & II Practitioner— International Association of Reiki Professionals
    • CPR/AED — National CPR Association
    • Certified Nutrition and Wellness Consultant — American Fitness Professionals   Association