Empowering Survivors, Nurturing Futures with Compassionate Care.
Sweet Cheeks Doulas is a survivor-centered reproductive care organization serving pregnant and parenting survivors and their families throughout the Greater Lansing area. We provide full-spectrum doula support, education, advocacy, and nourishment through pregnancy, birth, postpartum, abortion, loss, parenting, and healing—with care rooted in autonomy, trust, and empathy.
What We Believe
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we build spaces where survivors can be held, not hidden.
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supporting a survivor through pregnancy or postpartum is an act of resistance.
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we serve those who are most often overlooked—young people, Black, Indigenous, and Brown families, queer and trans parents, survivors of interpersonal and systemic violence navigating complex systems.
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whether by choice, by circumstance, or in spirit—we honor all paths to caregiving.
Sweet Cheeks Doulas was founded by Aladreana “Dre” Cheeks, a full-spectrum doula, childbirth educator, and survivor advocate with years of experience supporting survivors through pregnancy, parenting, crisis, and healing. Dre’s work is deeply informed by lived experience, community care, and a refusal to accept systems that prioritize control over compassion. After years working with traditional advocacy and crisis response spaces, they recognized the need for something different—care that honors autonomy, centers survivors as experts of their own lives, and makes room for rest, joy, and humanity.
Sweet Cheeks exists at the intersection of reproductive justice, survivor liberation, and embodied care. it is both a response to harm and a vision for what healing can look like when survivors are trusted, resourced, and held with dignity.
OUR VALUES
survivorship
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autonomy
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joy
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care
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justice
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community
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survivorship • autonomy • joy • • care • justice • community •
At Sweet Cheeks Doulas, we’re more than just a team—we’re a community. If you’d like to partner, train with us, or bring our services into your space, here’s how we can work together:
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Whether you’re giving birth, grieving a loss, parenting while healing, or navigating abortion care—we have trained, survivor-centered doulas ready to walk with you. You don’t have to do this alone.
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We believe in collective care. If you’re a clinic, nonprofit, school, or local business aligned with our mission, let’s build together. Let’s nourish futures—side by side.
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Your monthly gift keeps survivors fed, held, affirmed, and supported—before, during, and after birth. It’s more than giving. It’s building something that lasts.