EP 4 | Reviving Ancestral Wisdom: The Power of Indigenous Birth Workers
Oct 1, 2024 ·
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In episode four, Dr. Uzo is joined by Maria Ramos Bracamontes, a Mexican Indigenous Certified Nurse Midwife, Addiction Nurse and culture keeper. Uzo was first introduced to the cerrada de...
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In episode four, Dr. Uzo is joined by Maria Ramos Bracamontes, a Mexican Indigenous Certified Nurse Midwife, Addiction Nurse and culture keeper. Uzo was first introduced to the cerrada de caderas ceremony through Maria, and in this episode you'll get to hear all about how they met, and the reverence Uzo shares for Maria's wisdom, vision & transmutation of challenge into deep medicine.
ABOUT MARIA
María Ascensión Ramos Bracamontes is a Mexican Indigenous Certified Nurse Midwife & Addiction Nurse Practitioner in Kalendaruk territory, Watsonville, California. She was born at home in Coca territory, in a rural rancho called Ayotitlán, Jalisco, México and raised between the coastal Awaswas speaking territory that used to be called Aulinta, now known as Santa Cruz, California, and México. Formerly undocumented running in the streets of the Beach Flats, she is the daughter of campesin@s and day laborers & sister to gangsters, coyotes, and drug dealers. She comes from an uninterrupted lineage of birthkeepers and homebirth. She is the mother of three people, the last two were born gently at home in the water.
Being a new pregnant midwife during the pandemic serving undocumented Indigenous farmworker wombyn inspired her to start a mutual aid project called Campesina Womb Justice with the purpose of bringing honor, healing, justice, & land back to Indigenous campesinas.
CONNECT
Maria on IG @ComoTeAmoMidwifery & @CampesinaWombJustice
Support Campesina Womb Justice: GoFundMe
If you are interested in sharing your story on the Communal Healing podcast, please visit wellnesspromoters.net/communal-healing.
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ABOUT MARIA
María Ascensión Ramos Bracamontes is a Mexican Indigenous Certified Nurse Midwife & Addiction Nurse Practitioner in Kalendaruk territory, Watsonville, California. She was born at home in Coca territory, in a rural rancho called Ayotitlán, Jalisco, México and raised between the coastal Awaswas speaking territory that used to be called Aulinta, now known as Santa Cruz, California, and México. Formerly undocumented running in the streets of the Beach Flats, she is the daughter of campesin@s and day laborers & sister to gangsters, coyotes, and drug dealers. She comes from an uninterrupted lineage of birthkeepers and homebirth. She is the mother of three people, the last two were born gently at home in the water.
Being a new pregnant midwife during the pandemic serving undocumented Indigenous farmworker wombyn inspired her to start a mutual aid project called Campesina Womb Justice with the purpose of bringing honor, healing, justice, & land back to Indigenous campesinas.
CONNECT
Maria on IG @ComoTeAmoMidwifery & @CampesinaWombJustice
Support Campesina Womb Justice: GoFundMe
If you are interested in sharing your story on the Communal Healing podcast, please visit wellnesspromoters.net/communal-healing.
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