Why Birth Activism is Needed Today with Mars Lord

2023-10-01

Mars Lord is a life coach and a birth activist. A triple award winning doula, mentor, educator and coach with over 15 years of experience. Mars created Abuela Doulas, a doula preparation course primarily, but not exclusively, for Black and Brown women, and is the Founder of BLA (Black Lives Abuela) Scholarship. This scholarship is to help Black women who wish to become doulas to train and not be held back by socio-economic disadvantage. She is Inclusion Consultant to several large companies causing them...

Mars Lord is a life coach and a birth activist. A triple award winning doula, mentor, educator and coach with over 15 years of experience.

Mars created Abuela Doulas, a doula preparation course primarily, but not exclusively, for Black and Brown women, and is the Founder of BLA (Black Lives Abuela) Scholarship. This scholarship is to help Black women who wish to become doulas to train and not be held back by socio-economic disadvantage.

She is Inclusion Consultant to several large companies causing them to look deep into their practise to make systemic and structural change.

This interview was recorded in April 2022, following the Shrewsbury maternity scandal in the UK. Mars also refers to the 2021 draft of a highly concerning proposed new guideline on inducing labour by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

For more information about Mars Lord please visit https://www.marslord.co.uk/

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