Maternity Engagement Action CIC

Our Amazing Work
We provide safe spaces and peer support for black women throughout pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood.

Our aim is to empower Black women and raise awareness of how to request and expect clinically & culturally safe, compassionate, and equitable maternity care. Our practice is informed by systems change, and data analysis of the Black birth experience here in Birmingham and we carry this out through our Maternity Ambassadors for Change programme.

We work to challenge the current system of maternity care that is leaving Black women four times more likely to die than white women and re-imagine and co-create maternity support systems that are safe for Black women and their babies.

Birth activism and Perinatal Racial Justice is at the heart of what we do. We know that Black women are also more likely to experience a perinatal morbidity, have undiagnosed post-natal depression and have higher rates of stillbirths than white women, their pain is less likely to be acknowledged and they are more likely to have an intervention at birth.
Our goal is to address these inequalities and ensure that Black women in the West Midlands and beyond receive the care, support, and empowerment they deserve.