Meet the Founder
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Shauna Berment
Founder & Lead Doula
Advocating for Black maternal health
About
I’m a full-spectrum doula, mother of five, and educator. I don’t believe parents need someone to take over. I believe they need someone who can help them understand what’s happening—inside their body, inside their nervous system, and with their baby. When people understand what they’re experiencing, they make clearer decisions and trust themselves more.
I received my full-spectrum doula training through Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings (BADT), whose approach emphasizes culturally responsive, trauma-informed care, reproductive justice, and respect for each family’s autonomy. I’ve studied multiple approaches to birth, and they’ve informed the way I think—but I’m not teaching someone else’s method. Instead, I’ve developed my own approach that brings together physiology, nervous system regulation, observation, sensory awareness, and intuition. TBWR Literacy Method
I teach parents to become fluent in the language of birth.
I teach families how to read the body before they rely on someone else to interpret it for them.
Families will learn to:
1. Understand Before You React
2. Regulate Before You Decide
3. Observe Before You Intervene
4. Build Rhythm Instead of Chasing Perfection
5. Leave More Confident Than You Arrived
The Black Womb Renaissance was created in response to the realities of Black maternal health and the ways historical, systemic, and generational experiences continue to shape birth outcomes. We center Black families while welcoming all families seeking care built on knowledge, respect, and understanding.
Our Story
Our Vision
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At The Black Womb Renaissance, we teach families the language of the body.
The body is constantly communicating. Pregnancy, labor, postpartum recovery, and newborn behavior all have patterns, signals, and rhythms. Fear often grows when those signals feel unfamiliar. Confidence grows when we learn to recognize them.
The TBWR Literacy Method is built on the belief that families don’t need more dependence—they need greater understanding.
We teach parents how to read the language of their body, regulate their nervous system, recognize their baby’s cues, and build sustainable rhythms that continue long after our work together ends.