💬 Episode Summary

In this powerful conversation, Ana sits down with Licensed Midwife and community advocate Nicolle Maldonado, founder of Mother of Thousands Midwifery and Clinical Consultant of the Central Florida Birth Network.

Nicolle shares the deeply personal and systemic experiences that shaped her path into midwifery—from witnessing medical racism firsthand, to honoring the ancestral calling passed down from her great-great-grandmother, a traditional Puerto Rican midwife.

This episode is a reclamation, a reminder, and a radical invitation: birth can belong to us again.

🌟 In This Episode:

• The birth that lit the fire: how supporting a Black mother through a traumatic experience led Nicolle to midwifery
  

• The history we’re not taught: the erasure of Black midwives and how systemic racism shaped the modern birth world
  

• Why Nicolle only does home visits—and how it transforms family care
  

• The realities of being the only Latina in her graduating class
  

• Honoring lineage: discovering her great-great-grandmother was a midwife
  

• A passionate encouragement: everyone needs a doula
  

• The body never lies: how systemic injustice lives in the bodies of Black birthing people (Referenced paper: Birthing Blackness in the Body)
  

👣 Connect with Nicolle:

Instagram → @motherofthousandsmidwifery Website →https://www.motmidwifery.com/

🖤 Why This Episode Matters

Midwifery isn’t just about birth—it’s about liberation, lineage, and being seen. Nicolle is doing more than catching babies—she’s catching entire families in a web of care and cultural restoration.

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