CEO
Metro Mommy Agency
As the founder and CEO of Metro Mommy Agency (MMA), Esther Rose McCant has provided labor and postpartum support to hundreds of mothers in South Florida. As a Commonsense Childbirth certified doula she serves as a maternal health consultant, lactation counselor, and certified HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educator. Esther works to increase breastfeeding rates & reduce infant mortality as the co-lead for the Healthy Baby Taskforce, a subcommittee of the Consortium for a Healthier Miami-Dade County. She also serves as the Education & Communication for the Community Action Network Coordinator at the Jasmine Project, a Health Start program. Esther founded the Metro Mommy Agency Doula Mentorship program to provide ongoing mentorship to doulas across the country.
Metro Mommy Agency was recently awarded a health equity grant funded by the CDC through the Florida Department of Health for the MOMCHA (Making Optimal Maternal Child Health Accessible) Program. She developed “What Do Doulas Do” to train healthcare providers on the role of doulas and how to refer their clients to doulas. She partners with The Health Foundation of South Florida in the BLACK MATERNAL AND INFANT HEALTH COLLABORATIVE OF MIAMI-DADE.
She contributes innovative ideas with the Respectful Maternity Care Collaborative (RMCC) through the National Birth Equity Collaborative (NBEC), the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Birth Equity Accountability through Measurement Advisory Panel, the South Florida Black Mothers Care Plan, and BreastfeedMIAMI. Featured on Good Morning America for her environmental justice work where she helped her doula client escape a hurricane during her third trimester, Esther partners with international organization Human Rights Watch to create advocate and training and educational materials to assist birth workers and community members to provide better climate change support for pregnant families. She loves sharing insight on mothering her four sons in her R.O.S.E breastfeeding support group, Miami Mocha Mamas.
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM CST