A birth worker since 2012, Raquel Lemus Coaxitlalli centers pleasure, joy and purpose during pregnancy, birth and postpartum. The fully licensed Afro-Indigenous Latinx full-spectrum midwife, peristeam hydrotherapist and placenta specialist facilitates home births with local holistic Black and Indigenous maternity service providers Sugar Heal Gang and offers uterine health and holistic gynecology independently as Community Partera. As a childbirth educator, Coaxitlalli promotes positive birthing experience for families by checking mother and baby’s vital signs and offering self-care guidance throughout prenatal visits. During the birthing window (37-42 weeks), she remains on call and recommends vaginal steaming and other holistic modalities to prepare mother and baby for birth. During postpartum visits, she assesses vital signs and provides lactation counseling, uterine massage, belly binding and postpartum vaginal steaming.