The Birth Place is a unique full-service facility providing world-class midwifery and womens health care, in which our patients' safety and well-being always comes first.
The Birth Place strives to create a supportive, educational experience in a relaxed, friendly and professional environment.
Nubian Health Network is the source for all your women's health information needs.
Our mission is to provide you with accurate, pertinent and current health education, referrals and resources; help to reduce racial disparities in health care and to re-build positive community connections through sharing.
Commonsense Childbirth is a non-profit organization formed to enhance women's experience of childbirth and improve perinatal outcomes using a midwifery model of care.
Our vision is that all women have a healthy baby.
Jennie Joseph was born and raised in England when her parents emigrated from Barbados in the 1950's. She received her midwifery education from Barnet School of Nursing and Midwifery in affiliation with Edgware General Hospital in London. Always a pioneer for women’s special healthcare needs, Ms. Joseph has ten years of busy hospital experience and has specialized in out-of-hospital birthing since 1994. Ms. Joseph brings 26 years of combined expertise to help pregnant women achieve the birth of their dreams.
To be the NEW approach to women's wellness by providing inspiration, education, empowerment and support as a means to optimal health and by ensuring that all women have healthcare answers that they can understand.
To support the systems changes that will be integral to this NEW approach and to be the source for information and training regarding such changes.
Jennie Joseph is available to speak at your event - contact us at speaker@jenniejoseph.com
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Announcing the arrival of Jennie Joseph's New Book: Beautiful! Images of Health, Joy and Vitality in Pregnancy and Birth.
"To me all pregnant women are beautiful, but maybe after having spent a lifetime working with them, I am somewhat biased. So why a book about Black pregnant women and babies specifically? Why not? Have you ever seen such a book? Amongst the plethora of "Omigod I'm (She's, We're) Having a Baby" books have you come across any uplifting or encouraging pregnancy photography books? There are many cute baby photo books, brimming with pictures of healthy, happy cherubs which touch and move us all, so much so that you don’t even have to be pregnant to enjoy them.
Consider this - those babies were able to reach their healthful status and full potential, to be the vibrant, joyful beings that they are and you perhaps bought in to the notion that women of all races have access to such bliss. Black women in the United States in recent years have been shown, statistically, to deliver early (premature), small (low birth weight) and/or unhealthy babies who are at risk of not even surviving their first year of life. I am not just talking about poor women either; college –educated, insured and affluent women of African descent are disproportionately included as well.
How could this be? Does it make any sense that the US should rank amongst the bottom tiers of industrialized nations when it comes to infant and maternal health and wellness. Remember 'birth is not an illness' so what on earth has happened here? Study after study attempts to find an answer to such outrageous and unusual disparities at the same time that the steady rise of obstetric interventions and surgical deliveries impact all of America's childbearing women and families. I say, "Stop the insanity!" Let’s step back a minute and re-assess what we are doing, let's remind ourselves of the normalcy, sanctity and empowerment of birth. Look at the positive images that you see in my book Beautiful! and be encouraged."
Jennie
This lovely book is an 8.5 x 11 sized, black and white photo book. Very inspirational and a great gift idea! A portion of each book sold goes to support Commonsense Childbirth Inc. - a non-profit organization.
Commonsense Childbirth has a mission to ensure access to timely maternity healthcare particularly for minority, low-income, uninsured, and under-insured women and to provide practical, social, educational and emotional support, resources and referrals as a means to improving the chances for a positive pregnancy outcome.
Excerpt from Beautiful!
"There is a way - The JJ Way™. I present these images to you so the women can tell their own stories, without words. See if you can see what I see; that indeed in America today, every woman does want a healthy baby and every woman absolutely CAN have one." Jennie Joseph
Contact: Liz Poston 386-481-2990
On June 18th, the Bethune-Cookman University School of Nursing will join with midwife Jennie Joseph to bring her campaign for healthy babies to Volusia County. The community education event will address growing concerns about black infant health in the state of Florida, specifically the high infant mortality rates in the black community.
The event will include a viewing of “Bringing’ in Da Spirit,” a documentary chronicling the history of African-American midwives and their contribution to the health of communities across the nation narrated by actress Phylicia Rashad. The film will be followed by a presentation and discussion of the state of black infant health in Central Florida.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Wednesday, June 18 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at the Bethune-Cookman University School of Nursing, Lucille O’Neal Lecture Hall, 739 W. International Speedway Boulevard, Daytona Beach. Individuals interested in attending the event can call 407-654-9900 for more information.
Gabrielle Finley | Sentinel Staff Writer | April 23, 2008
Read the original article at the Orlando Sentinel
SANFORD - Shanette Lee thought hope was around the corner.
Her life had not been easy. Brushes with the law landed her in prison for a few years.
Then a relationship in New Jersey went sour, causing Lee, 29 and three months pregnant, to head to relatives in Sanford. But things got worse, and Lee ended up at a homeless shelter, rationing the prenatal vitamins she got back in New Jersey.
"There were times where I didn't know if I was going to get anything to eat," Lee said.
She was afraid her baby would die.
She was also a walking statistic for black infant mortality.
The death rate for Seminole County's black babies is off the charts -- seven times that of white babies, said midwife Jennie Joseph."This is outrageous, and these statistics can't stand," Joseph said.
'Saving Our Babies - The JJ Way™' has called together leaders in the government, health, social service and faith communities for a breakfast symposium to be held on Friday April 11, 2008. The keynote speaker for this event, Dr. Charles Mahan, is Dean and Professor Emeritus at the College of Public Health and The Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies at the University of South Florida. Hosted by Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford, the meeting will focus on sharing the facts and shaping solutions in a collaborative effort to end this runaway racial disparity. "Our combined strengths and efforts will prevail as we move forward with an agenda to improve the health of all members of our community, particularly our most vulnerable and needy populations, with this sincere effort to prevent infant deaths" states Joseph.
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For more details call 407-860-0611 or e-mail jennie@jenniejoseph.com
Jennie receives the 2007 Women's Resource Center's Summit Award. This video bio was presented to the audience at the gala award ceremony.
A short clip on Jennie Joseph. When your source of information matters, Jennie delivers years of practical experience and education.
Order your copy today from www.jenniejoseph.com
Jennie Joseph's amazing photo journal depicts the impact of her maternal child healthcare system, The JJ Way™, on positive pregnancy outcomes. A portion of proceeds from the sale of this book goes to support Jennie's non-profit agency Commonsense Childbirth which provides the opportunity for every woman to have a healthy pregnancy and birth.
