Alreema Vining from Newark, New Jersey is a devoted mother of three, a passionate advocate for maternal health, and a Certified Full Spectrum Doula Practitioner serving families in New Jersey and Virginia, with plans to expand across the East Coast region by 2026.

Her journey into birth work began in 2011, initially supporting new mothers as a postpartum helper. Following her own experiences with pregnancy, miscarriage, and traumatic birth with her youngest child, Alreema committed fully to the field in 2018. Since then, she has trained extensively in areas including newborn care, parental mental health, breastfeeding, infant and maternal loss, family leave, Reiki, and childbirth education. While she is skilled in many areas, her specialties remain around postpartum care, bereavement support, newborn care, and public speaking.

Alreema plays a critical role in advancing maternal health at the state level. She currently serves on advisory committees for NJMIHIA, CIVITAS, and the Birth Justice Taskforce. She also consults on the development of maternal health and community doula programs, partners with hospitals, and manages programs such as DMAHS to support Medicaid enrollment for doulas.

She is the founder and operator of three impactful organizations:

• Nurturing Baybees – a doula agency centered on family care;

• Nurturing Families Two – a community-based family support program;

• AAVE Doula Collaborative – a doula training and Medicaid billing organization that also serves as the Medicaid Doula Learning Collaborative (DLC) under the New Jersey Department of Health.

As a lifelong learner, Alreema is pursuing a degree in Public Health at Walden University, with the ultimate goal of earning her doctorate.

At the core of her mission is the belief in nurturing—whether it’s a new family or a new doula entering the field. She emphasizes the importance of supporting the entire family unit, including partners, and advocates for greater attention to the "forgotten-mester": postpartum. As she often says,
"This is where life and death happens—whether physically or mentally. Change postpartum, save a life."