How To Better Protect Yourself As a Black Birthing Person
Huff PostA few days after coming home from the hospital, I knew something was seriously wrong. Those stories helped my team and I to create a pregnancy app — one designed to serve the health of pregnant women, not only the babies — as well as develop steps that people of color can take to better arm and inform themselves so that they don’t become casualties of our system. The reality is that studies show increased rates of high blood pressure in Black communities — it’s one of the most basic things to track. Then there’s the Wolomi app, which has done a wonderful job building an online pregnancy community for women of color, as well as Dr. Renaissa Anthony’s Shero, which provides pregnancy education and group prenatal care support in one digital location. Guided by this shared mission, I’ve even created my own app, The Journey Pregnancy — a tool to document everything about your maternal health from your positive pregnancy test through postpartum recovery.
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Federal review ‘raises concerns’ about care for Black pregnant patients at Cedars-Sinai
LA TimesTakeaways from AP’s report on government programs tackling the US maternal death crisis
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As Black Women, We Will Reclaim Our Reproductive Autonomy. For Me, This Is Where It Starts.
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Birth can be dismal for Black women. What this hospital is doing to stop that
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Black women hit hardest as maternal death rates soar in US
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"Aftershock" directors on how the anti-midwife campaign wrought the Black maternal mortality crisis
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Opinion: To end America’s maternal mortality crisis, dismantle the racism that fuels it
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Editorial: Black new mothers are dying at unacceptably high rates. We have to confront that
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Op-Ed: How to change an American medical system that harms Black maternal health
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Harris highlights pregnancy difficulties facing Black women
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Why are so many black women still dying in childbirth?
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