Quantico Military Birth Resource Network & Postpartum Coalition

Quantico Military Birth Resource Network & Postpartum Coalition This is a local base chapter supporting healthy, safe, & satisfying pregnancies, births, & postpartum experiences for military families across the globe.

MBRNPC's mission is to support healthy, safe, and satisfying pregnancies, births, and postpartum experiences through advocacy and policy that prioritizes equity in access to birth options, lactation education and support, mental health care and culturally competent care for military families across the globe. MBRNPC is not affiliated , funded, or in any way associated with the Department of Defense or any of its components. Military Birth Resource Network has no governmental status.

10/03/2024

Are you expecting a baby in 2025? Have you considered getting breastfeeding counseling or support from a labor doula? If so, you should know about some changes coming to the TRICARE Childbirth and

10/03/2024

📢New episode alert!📢

Today's Military Birth Talk episode features Kara, who shares her two birth stories as a Navy Spouse. Her first birth was a hospital birth and her second was a home birth. She talks about the way her lived experience as a military spouse impacted her pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, including how moving multiple times affected her options and her access to support postpartum, and she shares a little bit about her spouse’s specific career field as a pilot and what that looked like postpartum for their family.

🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/46j2v5Z
🟢 Spotify: https://podcast.sptfy.com/OYqh
🟡 More: militarybirthtalk.buzzsprout.com

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09/19/2024

📢New episode alert!📢

In today’s episode of Military Birth Talk, Anni speaks with Zatha who was Active Duty in the Marine Corps for her first birth, and then got out before her second birth. Even though she was Active Duty her first birth took place at a birth center due to low staffing at the military hospital where they were stationed, and then her second birth was a free birth at their home in Italy, where her husband is stationed with the Navy. She shares all about that progression from a more traditional birth within the system to what’s known as a wild pregnancy and free birth, with no interventions or medical establishment involvement.

🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/46j2v5Z
🟢 Spotify: https://podcast.sptfy.com/OYqh
🟡 More: militarybirthtalk.buzzsprout.com

🌟Help other military families find our show by leaving us a rating or review on your podcast app of choice!🌟

08/02/2024

Join us virtually August 15th at 12pm and 7pm Central Standard Time for this months MilMama Birth Circle.

We are giving away two trinket plates in celebration of National Breastfeeding Month. For your chance to win, you must register AND attend the MilMama Birth Circle.

Register for the 12pm CST circle HERE ---->
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88515062037?pwd=JGdfj277c8vqnQlxqi7OgBXWbw3y7O.1

Register for the 7pm CST circle HERE ---->
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85864048531?pwd=uRniV405fEbKiTu4RyPKvgoosPyhsx.1

We look forward to another opportunity bringing our Military Community together, no matter where you're stationed.



12/24/2023

Happy Holidays from all of us at the Military Birth Resource Network and Postpartum Coalition.

As we reflect on 2023, we have so much to be grateful for. We have grown our Coalition, added network members, recruited amazing ambassadors, and worked on a lot of policy. With these accomplishments came some disappointment as well. While we lost some major issues in the 2024 NDAA, we are proud of the way this group (you included!) came together and pushed for more support for growing families in the military. Legislators and other organizations have taken notice and with you alongside us, we know that this work will continue to grow and evolve. Thank you for your passion and commitment to our mission and we can’t wait for you to join us in or work for 2024.

Be on the lookout for some updates, events, and opportunities coming soon! Wishing you all an amazing holiday season and we’ll see you in 2024!

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https://www.militarybirthresourcenetwork.org/

Military families sacrifice so many things and the Military Birth Resource Network & Postpartum Coalition wants to suppo...
11/28/2023

Military families sacrifice so many things and the Military Birth Resource Network & Postpartum Coalition wants to support these families. The struggles of military life are a constant challenge; moving from duty station to duty station, giving up holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries, enduring long deployments with little to no communication - and bringing new life into the world often without the presence of immediate family members.
With your help, MBRNPC can provide a community of support for these families through developing MBRNPC chapters on bases, and programs that provide support during pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum, and infant feeding.

MBRNPC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

11/14/2023

🤰🍼Join your USO at this exciting event just for active-duty moms and military spouses like you. This USO Special Delivery event provides a touch of home for new moms and moms-to-be, who are away from their families and support network during pregnancies. 👩‍🍼
***This shower is open to expecting (pregnant), new (6 months postpartum or less) moms & infants 6 months and under only.***
We welcome all currently serving active duty, reserve, and National Guard service members and military spouses.

Registration is required and spots are limited, please register with the link below:
https://register.uso.org/4111BMB7/5a3I8X3jc2l

10/05/2023

A new episode is out now! 📣🎙🆕

Today’s episode of Military Birth Talk features Navy spouse, Alison. Alison begins her story by sharing about her first pregnancy and subsequent loss (2:35). She then shares the story of her next pregnancy and birth (4:57), which took place at a civilian hospital out in town after 27 hours of labor; her son required a 9-day NICU stay due to a blood type incompatibility. She then discusses her next pregnancy which also ended in a loss, as well as a couple of chemical pregnancies, and the process of seeking fertility support (24:08). While preparing to execute OCONUS orders, she became pregnant again and she talks about her pregnancy and birth which took place at the MTF in Japan (27:36). Her son also needed a NICU stay and was cared for at the host nation hospital. We discuss the challenges of trying to conceive around deployments and TAD/TDY, and the staffing issues Alison experienced while being seen at MTFs.

Listen in wherever you get your podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe to our show so you never miss an episode!

🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/46j2v5Z
🟢 Spotify: https://podcast.sptfy.com/OYqh

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Military Birth Talk is LIVE! 🥳🙌💥In our first episode, we hear from Gaby Cavins, Navy veteran, and Executive Director of ...
09/21/2023

Military Birth Talk is LIVE! 🥳🙌💥
In our first episode, we hear from Gaby Cavins, Navy veteran, and Executive Director of the Military Birth Resource Network and Postpartum Coalition. Gaby shares her three birth stories, including a traumatic hospital birth (3:37), followed by a "freeing and healing" hospital birth (19:49), and concluding with a "silent, peaceful" homebirth (28:43). Over the course of her stories, Gaby shares about the way in which her varied births, and her processing of each of these transformative experiences during the postpartum period, led her to eventually become a birth worker herself. She also shares about the complexities of giving birth as an Active Duty service member (38:08). Gaby then discusses her work with MBRNPC, and shares some of the unique resources it provides to the military community (45:34).
Listen in wherever you get your podcasts, and don’t forget to subscribe to our show so you never miss an episode!
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/46j2v5Z
Spotify: https://podcast.sptfy.com/OYqh
🌟Help other military families find our show by leaving us a rating or review on your podcast app of choice!

Listen to Military Birth Talk on Spotify. Military Birth Talk features birth stories from service members, spouses, veterans, and providers, all told through the unique lens of birthing in the military. Birth is a profound, unforgettable experience leaving a lifelong imprint on our hearts. For milit...

09/14/2023
09/13/2023

Our first Military Birth Talk Podcast launches September 21st and you are invited to join our VIP Email List to listen early!

Follow the link below to tune in and hear Military Birth Talk's first powerful birth story!

https://bit.ly/44R6be7

08/23/2023

Marine Corps Base Quantico , there is still time to sign up for this months Coffee Connection. Join use for an morning of laughs, activity, and coffee bar. Non-school age children are welcome to attend.

Thursday, August 24th
11:30am-1:00pm

Registration required! https://register.uso.org/4111BMB7/5a3I8X3yfDq

Dodea Quantico Middle High School The Basic School Corps Officer Candidate School Quantico Military Birth Resource Network & Postpartum Coalition

08/16/2023

No two births look the same, so Military Birth Talk wants to feature birth stories that are as varied as the military community itself. We will do our best to select stories that represent the wide variety of experiences within this community, so that our listeners are exposed to as many perspective as possible. If you'd like for your birth story to be considered for a future episode, please fill out this interest form by scanning the QR code or following the link below.

https://bit.ly/3P08p68

We will contact you by email if your story is selected.

08/15/2023

📣ANNOUNCING the much anticipated MBRNPC Military Birth Talk Podcast launching in September 2023. 📣

Birth is a profound, unforgettable experience leaving a life long imprint on our hearts. For military families and service members giving birth and parenting in their community presents its own unique, challenging, and empowering realities. From giving birth alone or in a foreign country, miscarriage or infertility obstacles, being on Active Duty and desiring to have an out of hospital birth, provide a glimpse into the stories we have been told or supported someone through.

For years we’ve envisioned a way to shed some light on our personal journeys and help others connect and learn about our unique experiences. We are beyond excited to finally launch a podcast and introduce our host Anni Denzel in the upcoming week. Through these stories we hope to empower, educate and inspire you! We hope it opens the door for transparency and information to other military families, the birth community at large, and military leadership and policy makers to learn from our stories. Because it matters. Let’s let them be told.

07/20/2023

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Military Birth Resource Network provides resources and a supportive network for military families by developing opportunities for women and their families to be a part of a network that provides pregnancy, labor and birth, postpartum, lactation, and parenting support.

Military Birth Resource Network is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted under IRS regulations. Kindly consult your tax advisor regarding specific questions about your deductions.

Military Birth Resource Network is not affiliated , funded, or in any way associated with the Department of Defense or any of its components. Military Birth Resource Network has no governmental status.