amy willen

Midwife (MSN, CNM). I catch babies. Midwifery consultant. Abortion is healthcare. Repro justice for ALL or get out of the way. Sometimes I sleep.(she/her🏳️‍🌈)

[Karen A Scott MD MPH FACOG @RJEpiOBWarrior]

We’re building a database of hospital birth data that examines quality and patient safety through the expectations, experiences & expressions of Black mothers and birthing people.

Together we will #EndObstetricRacism
Spread the word! Thx!

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

@thehighsign Hello!! And wow to this bit of “journalism” that is so mortifying-it’s-ridiculous but mostly mortifying.

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

@thehighsign lol infinity !

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

@zoeinthecities @CapeCodChips The best

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

@thehighsign best photo of the bunch for sure

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

Yeah, my mom and dad's interracial marriage was illegal until I was a year old and then--later--they struggled to buy a home in their Long Island community because people didn't want to sell to a Black lady. Good times!

[International Confederation of Midwives @world_midwives]

It’s powerful to see so many countries represented during the #ICM2023 Congress flag ceremony! We are #TogetherAgain in Bali. #MidwivesInBali

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

@auntie_ames @ziibiing first thought was nail clippers! also hair ties or clips if your hair occasionally requires some management.

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

That OR people can just calm tf down because sir, it’s a baby.

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

It’s not right for everyone, clearly depends on several factors, but try having someone else do the rocking/walking/swaying. While it’s sweet that a baby thinks it’s mom/parent is perfect and omnipotent, with someone else it’s like the baby’s expectations are lower?

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

@ambernoelle I remember doing a book report on it that felt absolutely sacred to me

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

and yet today of all days is when @KetchamPaul and @BatesvilleCorp choose to promote intolerance and transphobia by attempting to sabotage and erase a *child* away from home on his high school band trip.

[Human Rights Campaign Rapid Response @HRC]

🏳️‍⚧️It's Transgender Day of Visibility🏳️‍⚧️
Every day, but even more so today, we celebrate the pride, power and resilience of our trans and non-binary community. #TDOV

[Katrina Lipinsky @Katweeta]

Thx @PennNursing for putting me $312,000 in debt so I could be a midwife!!! So proud to have shared that with the @PADemPolicy committee yesterday while testifying on allowing advanced practice clinicians to provide abortion.

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

@KraftSheley @hannahmsays With a few lovely exceptions, L&D has some of the judgiest, snarkiest, meanest staff who are more than ready to egg each other on in their intolerance.

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

@BortolettoMD @iamn0tthe1 not enough people are talking about this gem. So good!

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

@virutandon31 @endohan @rgay -Only transphobes believe that only women can get pregnant.
-‘They’ refers to her not becoming pregnant alone but by being impregnated by a monster. Victims aren’t responsible to bear labels forced upon them. Not homeless but unhoused by X. Not slaves but people enslaved by X.

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

the fact that this comment blew up, in just a few hours, with several stories of similar cases…

think of how prevalent this is.
how many excuses have been made.

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

@rgay flashback to when I was a nursing student on my pediatric rotation at the hospital, and we were caring for a 12 year old in a permanent coma who had been living in a nursing home... but was admitted to the hospital when they discovered she was pregnant.

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

@endohan @rgay yes of course. I just didn’t want to acknowledge her assailant with a pronoun intended for an actual human.

[amy willen @AmyEWillen]

@AkilahObviously