by Meagan Morse, CNM We’ve all heard the sayings, “your gut feeling,” and “trust your gut.” It’s ancient wisdom that our tummies are wise. Now, with emerging research on the gut microbiome, we’re learning just how true that is! We’re also lear…

October 6-12, 2024 National Midwifery Week (#MidwiferyWeek2024) was created by the American College Nurse Midwives to celebrate and recognize midwives and midwife-led care. This year’s theme is “Midwives Looking to the Future.” Rigorous sci…

With September comes the changing of the seasons, and we’re ready to continue sharing the exciting changes and events happening at DAL! Our annual family day is BACK! We are so excited to announce the return of our DAL family day …

Hello! I’m Gabriela Estala-Lopez, an Albuquerque native and UNM alumna with a heart for community work. My journey started at Global Ties ABQ and led to a focus on reproductive health care with Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. I a…

Thank you to all of our DAL families, friends, and supporters for coming out and spending part of your Mother’s Day weekend with us! 💐 There aren’t enough words to describe how grateful and honored we are to be so loved and supported by our…

Dear Dar a Luz Community, Happy New Year Dar a Luz community! Welcome to the first newsletter of 2024. We ended last year’s fundraising campaign having raised $220K from Dar a Luz community members, individual donors, local foundations, boa…

What’s next? Dear Dar a Luz Community, We wanted to tell you some amazing news: together, we’ve saved Dar a Luz! Some of you might remember from our community letter published back in June 2023, that we had a projected deficit of $300…

November 27, 2023 Dear Community, Last week Baby #1500, #1501 and #1502 (all on the same day!) were born at Dar a Luz! Since opening in 2011, we have taken care of nearly 2,500 families with our midwives and nurses having attended over 1…

November 11, 2023 Dear Community, We want to let you in on a little secret: we are on our way to closing the gap! So far we have raised a total of $180K since June, 2023. This means that we are more than halfway to our goal of $300K by Decem…

October 14, 2023 #SaveDaraLuz Update! United Way Giving Greetings Community!  We have amazing news! Last week we received an anonymous donation that brought us to a total of $152,000 raised since the start of our #Save…

October 8, 2023 #SaveDaraLuz Update! Greetings Community! We come to you first with some nostalgia: Abigail and Alisa founded and incorporated Dar a Luz (back then “Full Circle Midwifery Birth & Health Center”) in July 2007 and held o…