Ọlọ́mọ Ló L'ayé
Embracing Tradition. Enhancing Care.
What We Offer
Ọlọ́mọ Ló L'ayé convenes a membership collective of diverse birth professionals from various countries to develop universally applicable best practices for pregnant individuals and their families. We empower traditional midwives globally by connecting their unique ancestral practices with those of Yoruba Agbebi, fostering a stronger, unified traditional birth community equipped with the tools to work with their communities in a way that feels ancestrally correct. Additionally, we lead reverse missionary work that exposes medical professionals to traditional practices, addressing the impact of colonization on birth practices and promoting cultural sensitivity and best practices in hospitals and traditional birth settings, both internationally and within the USA's diverse cultural communities.
Our Services
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Repair
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Reconnect
Olomo Lo L’aye offers RAR, a unique opportunity for healthcare professionals (OB/GYNs, nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives, traditional midwives, and doulas) to engage in meaningful dialogue and cultivate a deeper understanding of indigenous birth practices. We travel to your location to facilitate this exchange and support communities seeking to reconnect with their ancestral roots.
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Rebirth
Birth
Initiative
Olomo Lo L'aye presents the Rebirth Birth Initiative or RBI as a comprehensive solution to help hospitals foster a more inclusive and patient-centered approach to childbirth. By integrating birth and postpartum doula care, ambassadors, cultural advocacy, education, community integration, and cultural navigation, RBI offers an innovative health equity approach that has proven successful in improving birth outcomes.
Our Programs
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Ìyèniyun(Precious mothers)
Our Cohorts
The Ìyèniyun Program provides cross-cultural learning opportunities and exposure to traditional, spiritual, and cultural Agbebi practices for all birthing professionals organized as cohorts to interface with the global medical community and the traditional birth community. This includes a specialized program to help bring greater visibility and progression to the medical community through traditional practices to support rectifying the overuse of medicalization and the diminishing of cultural and ancestral practices in hospital spaces while shining a light on the barriers to care we have most notably in Western practices. .
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Alaweye (to bathe to success)
Olomo Lo L'aye restores and repairs traditional birth practices through our specialized Alaweye training and mentorship opportunities with the Agbebi at two levels:
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Utilizing traditional practices to enhance birth practices
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Training by ways of utilizing the Ifa/Orisha spiritual system to give more profound enhancement to birthing practice. These trainings do not provide you with the skills to become a midwife.
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Ìyá ni wúrà (Mother is gold)
The Ìyá ni wúrà Program aims to create a supportive environment for traditional birth practices by establishing culturally affirming 'grandmother' support spaces, a state-of-the-art birthing center in Nigeria, and providing financial compensation to Nigerian Agbebi birthing educators. These efforts will help integrate traditional birth practices and support services back into the community.
