What's Missing When We Talk About Black Maternal Health

In the last few years, advocates for maternal health (especially Black and Native women’s maternal health) have brought awareness to the crisis in this country. It’s changed the way that people relate to doulas, birth classes, and labor itself. Not all of that makes giving birth easier.

Listen to today’s podcast to hear:

• an unintended side effect of the advocacy around the maternal health crisis

• what childbirth education misses when it comes to Black women

• an epiphany that changed the way I approach what’s important in birth classes

• the importance of Black women’s birth partners

• a new resource I’ve created to support Black women in feeling safe, empowered and ready for the joy of giving birth

Get Expecting Excellence, the 5 day guide for pregnant Black women to feel safe, empowered, & ready for the joy of giving birth here.

I am a currently practicing doula- labor, postpartum & childbirth education. If you'd like to hire me or my team, we’re at dcmetromaternity.com.

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