Train more Midwives
and Normalize
Home-birth Midwifery
Birth in Color Midwifery is dedicated to training more midwives to serve the out-of-hospital birth community. Education is imperative and providing a diverse clinical environment that challenges the student allows for learning to be dynamic.
Meet Lakeeta Watts (midwifery student)
Lakeeta is a current student working with Birth in Color Midwifery since September 2024. She is an amazing asset to the practice and gives a unique perspective to the families she has been given a chance to work with. She brings a wealth of knowledge that is a true asset to the practice.
LaKeeta completing a blood pressure assessment on a client with clear communication.
LaKeeta integrating the family while listening to fetal heart tones with a client’s consent.
Lakeeta’s Voice to the Community she wants to serve
“Ever since I was a young teen, I knew I wanted to support the growth and development of babies with my first thought being neonatology, but after having my children, I knew I wanted to become something more intimate.”
“Becoming a midwife has been God-instilled upon me. My grandmother and great-grandmother were traditional midwives and one was also a teacher. It’s been in my nature to want to educate families on their birth journeys and support them in ways that could influence their birth outcomes. My Vision in Midwifery is honestly already happening as I am learning daily about the growth and development of babies in-utero.”
“My vision is to continue to make home-birth the norm in order to elevate the voices of our birthing people and their partners about their perinatal desires, and to provide access to education at the hands in an intimate level that will aid in supporting families in their most sacred time of growing their bundles of joy.”
Lakeeta Watts is a Full Spectrum Doula and Trainer, National Community Health Worker and Instructor, Placenta Encapsulation Instructor, Trauma Informed Care Instructor, Mental Health First Aid advocate, Student Midwife, and Mother of five. Lakeeta is also the Founder/Executive Director of Essentially Empowered, Inc. and co/founder of TLC Community Health LLC.
“Lakeeta’s presence compliments everything that Birth in Color Midwifery represents. She is genuine and ready to learn.”