Native American Midwives Help Navajo Families Thrive
When Navajo Midwife Nicolle Gonzales talks with Native American women about birth, there’s a sense something is missing, she said in this week’s
Friday Podcast. “But,” she said, “we don’t know what it is.” Gonzales grew up and remains on a Navajo Reservation in New Mexico. She became a midwife and founded the Changing Woman Initiative (CWI) to address unmet maternal health care needs in her community. She is of the Tl’aashchi’I,
Red Bottom clan, born for Tachii’nii,
Red Running into the Water clan, Hashk’aa hadzohi,