Founder
Sista Midwife Productions
Nicole Deggins is one of the country’s leading birth advocacy experts. She is a sought after trainer, public speaker and community educator working to eliminate perinatal disparities and bring transparency to prenatal education and the medical obstetrical system. Nicole provides education, training and consultations for communities, birth workers and organizations that work with child bearing families. She is a dedicated leader, mentor, and consultant and actively supports efforts to increase the numbers of African American midwives, doulas, and birth advocates. She believes that this is a critical step in eliminating the perinatal disparities that plague the African American community.
With over two decades of experience working inside the medical obstetrical system, Nicole’s views and style of training are radically different. Her combination of real life experiences, combined with her vivid storytelling, her willingness to share “insider secrets” and her unprecedented passion, allow her to connect with her students and her speaking audiences in a full and unique way.
Nicole uses a powerful delivery style to inspire individuals toward a paradigm shift about birth and birth justice. She believes that Birth is the Revolution and if we collectively begin to change how we birth, and how we support each other during childbearing, we can literally heal ourselves and our communities.
Nicole is the creator of the Sista Midwife Birth Sister/Doula training and the largest online Black Midwives and Doula Directory. In addition to her training and community work, Nicole sits on the Louisiana Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review Committee, the Louisiana Healthy Moms Healthy Babies Council, and is a former faculty member for the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative. Nicole has provided guest lectures to public health students at Tulane and Xavier Universities. She is an active consultant for the Global Infant Safe Sleep Center (GISS) and has provided training and consultation to many local and national birth agencies including the New Orleans Maternal Child Health Coalition, Birthing Project USA, Birth Mark Doula Collective, The International Center for Traditional Childbearing, Healthy Start New Orleans, The Intune Mothering Project, Birth Rite New Orleans, WIC and others.
Prior to starting her work with Sista Midwife Productions, Nicole received her BS in Nursing from Georgetown University, and completed a dual degree program at Emory University where she fulfilled the requirements for the MS in Nursing with a concentration in midwifery, and an MPH with a concentration in Health Policy and Management. During her clinical career, Nicole has practiced as a midwife in Washington DC, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and has worked as a labor and delivery, postpartum and well baby/newborn nurse in numerous public and private settings throughout the country
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