​About Us

Our Mommie Village is a nonprofit organization that helps community moms in Buffalo, New York during their birth through postpartum experience. Our Mommie Village serves as a hub of resources and services that aid in healthy recovery and a smooth transition into motherhood. Black and brown mothers and their babies die at a disproportionate rate than white moms and babies. 

Our Mommie Village is addressing these mostly preventable deaths by providing a more holistic approach to prenatal care and beyond. This model has a combination of one on one and group model care. Our Mommie Village provides personalized care plans that support the mother and her plans once the baby has arrived. 
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OUR MISSION

Our Mommie Village exists to ensure all mothers have access to the support and services they need to be well from birth through postpartum recovery.

Our Values

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Our Mommie Village focuses on the eight areas of wellness to create personalized care plans, they are as follows: physical, spiritual, emotional, environmental, financial, occupational, intellectual, and social. 

Our Why

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Black and brown mothers and their babies die at a disproportionately higher rate than others. Our Mommie Village refuses to let that be the status quo by making advocacy, education, and holistic care within reach for mothers that are often marginalized and lost in traditional health systems and under-supported motherhood. To nurture the village, we provide regular opportunities for mothers to gather for social support, learning experiences, and coaching. 

Meet our founder Shyana Broughton

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Shyana Broughton is the Creator of Our Mommie Village and she currently works as the Outreach Coordinator and Intake Specialist for The Full-Term Project. Shyana has worked with children and families for over fifteen years. She has always had a passion for birth since she was very young. It wasn't until the birth of her daughter did she find her place in the world fighting for birth equity for all. Shyana is looking forward to working side by side with amazing leaders in the community such as the class of 2018 Emerging Leaders that have their stories to tell. Building relationships with community is what she enjoys most and by the end of the leadership course, she will be ready to take Buffalo by storm.

Meet Eileen Stewart, CNM

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Full Term was founded by Eileen Stewart to educate Black and Brown moms and low-income moms on the birth options that they have. Eileen has been a certified nurse midwife for many years and is committed to improving birth outcomes and the racial disparity in birth outcomes that our community currently experiences. She offers prenatal education to groups of African-American women to help them achieve healthy, full-term births.

Meet Mary Miller, MA, IBCLC, RLC, CPD

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Mary is an international board-certified lactation consultant who has also been a certified perinatal doula for nearly 10 years. Mary is the founder and lead IBCLC at WNY Orofacial & Breastfeeding Support Center, a specialty lactation practice, where she provides treatment for infants and young children to develop functional orofacial skills along with education and guidance for concerned parents. Mary is committed supporting the health and well-being of families who have difficulties locating evidence-based lactation and orofacial care provided with a doula's touch.
Our Mommie Village
​(716) 449-8283