Hakim Birthworks

Welcome!

My name is Hakim and my pronouns are they/he. I come from Upper Egypt on my father’s side, and France via Abenaki Territory on my mother’s. I do many things in my life, but some of the roles I feel most connected to are those of sibling, care worker, artist, clown, and, most deeply, friend. I’ve lived on Kwanlin Dun and Ta’an Kwach’an territory since 2020. 

As a birth and postpartum doula, I support clients emotionally, physically, and spiritually through their experiences in pregnancy, birth, and as new parents. The services and products that I provide are grounded in my belief that all birthers and babies deserve to be surrounded by care, support, and dignity during the birth and postpartum periods.

Please explore this website to learn more about my practice, current projects, and to see what services and products I’m currently offering. Thank you for being here!

My Values

  • As a racialized person, I prioritize working with BIPOC clients. I come to birthwork with the intention to uplift your traditional and cultural knowledge, and to help you navigate birthing in a white-centric healthcare system. My own practice as a birthworker is informed by traditional Egyptian and SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) knowledge, and leaves lots of room for whatever practices from your lineage you choose to bring to your birth and postpartum experiences.

  • I am a fierce advocate for queer and trans reproductive justice, and will help you navigate the particular ins and outs of pregnancy, birthing, and postpartum as a queer and/or trans person. Do you have a non-normative family structure? Are you a trans birther? Maybe I’m the birthworker for you!

  • Everyone is deserving of support, dignity, and quality care during their birth journeys. You are the one making the decisions, and I am there to listen to you, walk alongside you, and advocate for you every step of the way, no matter what your background, lived experience, or needs are.

Services

Every birther has unique needs, and my services are very flexible. Here is a general outline of what working with me might look like; however, if you are looking for something different, don’t hesitate to reach out and ask.

Birth Doula Services

    • Free consult (Zoom, phone, or in-person) to see if we are a good fit for one another

    • Two 1-2 hour in-person sessions during your pregnancy

    • On-call support during all stages of labour and birth 

    • Two 1-3 hour visit during your first 2 weeks postpartum

  • Tier 1: $1400

    Tier 2: $1000

    Tier 3: $700

    Tier 4: Please see “Customized Doula Services” for more info

Postpartum Doula Services

    • Free consult (Zoom, phone, or in-person) to see if we are a good fit for one another

    • One 1-3 hour in-person visit during your third trimester to make a postpartum care plan

    • Six 1-3 hour visits during your first 12 weeks postpartum (at the hospital or at home)

  • Tier 1: $1400

    Tier 2: $1000

    Tier 3: $700

    Tier 4: Please see “Customized Doula Services” for more info

Customized Doula Services

  • My services are flexible. If you are interested in a combination of birth and postpartum visits, or booking my services by the visit rather than in a package, contact me and we’ll sort out the details together.

  • Flexible pricing, depending on what type of service is being provided. This is also where I have the most flexibility to work with clients facing financial barriers— so contact me, and if we are a good fit for one another we’ll figure out a way of working together that makes sense for all of us.

All of my work is priced using a sliding scale. More information on this is available below, in the “Sliding Scale” portion of this website. Someday I will learn how to hyperlink… for now, scroll down!

Postpartum Care Products

Here are some of the offerings I make for my postpartum clients, now available for purchase as gifts for the birthers in your life. All of the formulations and recipes are my own, and use ingredients traditionally found in SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) postpartum remedies. If you’d like to learn more about SWANA plant medicine, especially as it relates to land-based practice and anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist movements, I recommend the work of my teacher Layla K. Feghali. Learn more here.

To order my products, please use the contact form found at the bottom of this website.

Warm + Nourish Postpartum Care Package

Sliding Scale $75 - $150

  • Soothe and Ground Tea Blend 

  • Nipple Balm

  • Grief Tending Salve

  • Postpartum Warming Tonic

  • 1L Bone Broth (frozen) 

  • 1 Dozen Lactation Cookies  

Only available for pickup or delivery in Whitehorse.

Sliding Scale $30 - $80

  • Soothe and Ground Tea Blend

  • Nipple Balm

  • Grief Tending Salve

Soothe + Heal Postpartum Care Package

Available for shipping within Canada.

Home Cooked Postpartum Meal

Sliding Scale $40 - $75

A nourishing home cooked meal, full of traditional Egyptian knowledge and ingredients to help with postpartum healing.

Only available for pickup or delivery in Whitehorse.

Sliding Scale

All of my services and products are priced on a sliding scale. Not sure where you land when it comes to flexible pricing? Below is some more information on each pricing tier, to help you place yourself. This model is based on the Green Bottle Sliding Scale— learn more here.

    • You are comfortably able to meet all of your basic needs.

    • You may have some debt but it does not affect your ability to meet your basic needs.

    • You are employed or do not need to work to meet your needs.

    • You have health benefits.

    • You have access to financial savings and/or intergenerational wealth.

    • You own your home and/or other property.

    • You have expendable income.

    • You can afford to take annual vacation or time off.

    • You are able to meet all of your basic needs.

    • You may have some debt but it does not affect your ability to meet your basic needs.

    • You are employed at a job that offers health benefits.

    • You can afford to take a vacation or time off once every year or every few years.

    • You rent your home and do not own any property.

    • You have some expendable income.

    • You can afford to take a vacation or time off once every year or every few years.

    • You struggle to meet your basic needs but mostly achieve them.

    • You have some debt.

    • You are employed or self-employed.

    • You do not have access to financial savings or intergenerational wealth.

    • You do not have access to health benefits.

    • You rent your home and no not own any property.

    • You rarely have expendable income.

    • You have to actively save to take time off or a holiday.

    • You regularly struggle to meet your basic needs.

    • You have debt and it can stop you from meeting your basic needs.

    • You have unstable employment or are unemployed.

    • You do not have health benefits.

    • You do not have access to financial savings or intergenerational wealth.

    • You rent your home or have unstable housing.

    • You do not own any property.

    • You don’t have expendable income.

    • You can’t afford to take a holiday without financial burden.

About Me

I began offering postpartum care to folks in my life in 2022 and quickly realized that birthwork combines many of my favourite things: cooking warm and nourishing foods for others, in-depth learning about nerdy things (I love biology), making folks a cup of tea and listening to their worries, putting babies to sleep. Since then I’ve trained as a birth and postpartum doula with Nesting Doula Collective, and have started offering birth and pregnancy support to folks as well. I am very new to the world of birth and still consider myself a student. I am lucky to be surrounded by teachers, mentors, friends and birthers who share so much with me.

When not supporting birthers, I can be found studying plant medicine, tending gardens, connecting to my culture, or working on my latest schemes as a theatre maker, musician, and visual artist. I am most alive on the wheel between reverence and irreverence, and deeply believe in the role of the clown as social disruptor. If you are looking for a birthworker who is committed to thinking creatively about ways of caring for one another amidst failing systems, I might be the guy for you. Yalla!

Contact Me

Use this form to contact me and to order my products. I can also be found at:

IG: hakim.birthworks

email: hakim.birthworks@gmail.com