Amma Birth Companions
Amma Birth Companions is a Glasgow charity that provides care, information and advocacy to those who face barriers to support during pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. Their services include birth and postnatal companionship, peer support and education. They aim to ensure that nobody faces the birth of a baby alone.
Amma Birth Companions was founded in early 2019 to ensure that expectant and new parents in Glasgow have the right support during pregnancy, birth and the early postnatal weeks.
The organisation believes that all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, language, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability/ability, or socioeconomic circumstances should be supported at every stage of their parenting journey. Amma has a team of volunteers who undergo comprehensive training to deliver specialist, trauma-informed, culturally competent care to their clients throughout the perinatal period.
Beneficiaries include mums like Yvonne, who arrived in Glasgow at six months pregnant in December 2019, completely alone. Amma connected her with a birth partner who held her hand through her labour with her daughter. She is now part of the charity’s peer support group which she calls “the family I don’t have here”.
Another is Vongayi, who separated from her partner when she was 17 weeks into a high-risk pregnancy with twin sons. Amma provided her with both a birth partner and an additional postnatal companion, who supported her when one of her twins died at 19 days old. She says: “Even today I can still talk to them about him because they walked with me.”
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