by Erin Backus | Mar 20, 2020 | News, Resources
by Nina Martin March 19, 5:32 p.m. EDT The experience you expected is likely to be very different from the one you actually get. The key to staying sane is to be as ready as possible to throw your best-laid-plans out the window. Over the next three months, nearly a...
by Erin Backus | Mar 10, 2020 | News
By: Patia Braithwaite This story is part of SELF’s ongoing series exploring black maternal mortality. You can find the rest of the series here. Discussions about black maternal mortality often center on depressing statistics, like the fact that the maternal...
by Erin Backus | Dec 16, 2019 | News
Despite high-tech medical advances of the last century, women around the world are still dying in pregnancy and childbirth from age-old scourges such as hemorrhage and pre-eclampsia and, increasingly, from complications related to chronic diseases, obesity, and...
by Erin Backus | Dec 16, 2019 | News
Serena Williams knew her body well enough to listen when it told her something was wrong. Winner of 23 Grand Slam singles titles, she’d been playing tennis since age 3—as a professional since 14. Along the way, she’d survived a life-threatening blood clot in her...
by Erin Backus | Nov 1, 2019 | News
Jaymie assisted her second mother, Cornelia, with delivering a baby. Cornelia did an amazing job fighting for her natural birth for 36 straight hours until she had to have an emergency C-section the last 35 minutes. All went well and a beautiful baby was born! Thank...
by Erin Backus | Jul 26, 2019 | News
Taylor Allen | WHYY Listen 1:16 Black women in the United States are three times more likely to die from complications in childbirth than white women. It is estimated, however, that up to 60% of those complications — things like preeclampsia, fibroids, postpartum...
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