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Connection Brings Healing Babies Bring Hope Virginia Prison Birth Project our mission is to nurture WellBeing Connection and Hope by providing skilled support and compassionate presence for pregnant and postpartum people in prison. Our vision is to collectively work toward a solution for underlying circumstances that lead to incarceration and promote healing for justiceimpacted birthing people and their babies across the Commonwealth. What We Do How the Virginia Prison Birth Project Supports Justiceinvolved families Our trained doulas offer emotional physical and informational support to pregnant and postpartum people in prison throughout pregnancy and birthing during separation from baby at the hospital and postpartum when they return to prison. We facilitate a program that serves lactating incarcerated parents and their babies by collecting pumped breastmilk and shipping it safely to infant custodians.