A community around reproductive care and health sovereignty
Chichiltikcueitl is a community around reproductive care and health sovereignty. We offer companionship, education, and resources for people to navigate their reproductive experiences feeling confident and supported.
Chichiltikcueitl:
Community Gatherings
We help pregnant Latino families who want an alternative way of care for their pregnancy get traditional prenatal care, and preparation for birth and postpartum in community.
🔸 We guide families to care holistically for their changing bodies and growing babies.
🔸We teach them techniques for self-assessment and sovereignty in health.
🔸We help families remember their ancestral technologies for care and enjoyment in the childbearing year.
Our sessions are wellness centered and empower families to live a dignified birth experience.
Our project's motto is birthkeeping for our people
We want our peoples to be born in peace, in full connection to themselves, their ancestral wisdom, and their inner power.
Because the way in which we are born determines our ways of living and dying, we birthkeep to dignify our peoples, to bring healing to our ancestors, our families, and communities.
What makes our project unique
COMPREHENSIVE CARE: Chichiltikcueitl encompasses prenatal care, preparation, and support for birth & postpartum up to the first year.
TRAUMA INFORMED CARE & CULTURAL RELEVANCY: Our sessions provide safety, containment, nourishment, camaraderie, education & care for our people. They are a container of healing, remembrance, creativity & cultural preservation.
COMMUNITY BUILDING: Our sessions encourage people to participate actively in building a community around family, care, and sovereignty by bringing forward their wisdom, knowledge and skills for living in good relationship. We want all of us to remain acquaintances, neighbors, friends, and family with each other, lighting in our hearts the ancestral fires of true, long-lasting, and expanding connection.
ACCESS: We make it possible to access unique bilingual services and opportunities with the support of our community. We also offer a simple payment plan for our sessions, and the option to use half the value of the sessions towards culturally relevant and affordable birth & postpartum support.
✓ Education: receive down-to-earth, simple and meaningful information, our grandma's tips, and our people's ancestral technologies for wellness during the childbearing year. ✓ Care: enjoy limpias, sobos, baños, conversa, and other wellness sessions along with the usual check-ups. ✓ Community: Live this experience surrounded by other expecting families and have access to a local network of professionals and businesses who support good living. ✓ Support: Get traditional birth and postpartum support from your team of birthkeepers.
Every session consists of 6 main moments that tend holistically to the expectant family: an opening gratitude moment, nourishment time, a class and practice, a sharing moment, and a closing moment.
Please check our curriculum of classes here
We (Victoria Flores and Iveth Balanta) are the hosts, space and time keepers of the sessions. We will also teach some of the classes and practices. There will also be volunteer birthkeepers, guest speakers, and teachers supporting us, and their participation will be announced a month previous to the session. However, the sessions work mainly by community participation: we birthkeep and share but you are the expert of your experience and also get to share your gifts and wisdom with all the attendees.
The value of our 9 sessions is $900. You can pay in full, in a 3-installment payment plan, or sign up for a waiting list to receive partial community sponsorship. What is not covered by the sponsorship, you can pay following the 2 options mentioned above.
No worries, you will receive all notes, materials, and resources. And you can always book individual care visits in between sessions by making use of your sessions' credit.
Your Birthkeepers
We have joined our hearts, wombs, and hands to provide all families who want an alternative way of care for their pregnancy get traditional prenatal care and preparation for birth and postpartum in community.
We hold space for you and your family honoring our ancestral traditions, our mothering experience, and our knowledge and experience as birth workers by sharing paths of reconnection with the body, with family knowledge, and ancestral wisdom.
I'm Iveth Balanta (She/Her/They), an immigrant partera from Abya Yala (Colombia). I come from the Valley of the Cauca River, my people are Quillancinga, Inga, Timaná, Balanta & Settler Spaniards. I've learned the art or birthkeeping from my abuelas, tías, and mamas parteras. I am a mom, partner, friend, and daughter, and I tend to my garden of relatives, my kitchen, and my altar with love everyday. I love the land and its creatures, dancing, poetry, the dreams and stories of my grandparents who keep me company in this magical Mojave Desert, ancestral land of the Nuwuvi people.
I've chosen this path of remembrance and healing to honor my women and all my sisters from other mothers, our families, and the sacredness of our rites of life.
I'm Victoria Flores (She/Her/They) an Indigenous mother, Organizer, Lactation Support Educator, Land and Birthworker. With roots from Michoacán and Zacatecas México, I am is the descendant of P’urepécha-Nahua Otomi parents and the Creator of the Solidarity Fridge, a mutual aid community pantry and garden located in East Las Vegas, Nuwuvi Lands.
Honoring the memory of my bisabuela, Partera Chona and drawing inspiration from my family, culture and ancestors, I am dedicated to cultivating life and reclaiming sovereignty by improving the health and well-being of my community through sacred ancestral knowledge, rematriation, and providing more access to traditional and quality prenatal care.
Together we bring our gifts to you, our ancestral wisdom, our experience, and comprehensive training:
- Certified Full-spectrum Doula - BADT
- Nevada Board Certified Birth Doula
- Postpartum Doula - Postpartum Healing Lodge
- Diploma in Integrative Gynecology and Herbalism - Biopartera
- Diploma in Placental Art & Medicine - Biopartera
- Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner Training - Ancestral Medicine
- Lactation Support Educator - CAPPA Certified
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