birth experience for black women

It Takes a Village: Tips On Winter Pregnancy, Delivery and the Big Comeback

Mama Glow's Lathan Thomas shares intel on how moms can get—and keep!—their pre/post baby bodies together during these brutal winter months.

– Feb 24, 2015

Tales From the Postpartum Darkside: This New Mom’s OCD Kicked In After Birth

First family road trip up the coast: this mom made her husband spend 20 minutes brainstorming a plan for saving all of their lives should their car careen off a cliff.

– Apr 30, 2014

The Social Worker Will See You Now: A Postpartum Experience This Black Mom Will Never Forget

By TARA PRINGLE JEFFERSON The nurse flitted around the room, flipping through her chart and checking my vitals. “Do you mind if your…boyfriend,” the nurse...

– Aug 27, 2013

Amber Rose & Wiz Khalifa’s Unconventional Birth Plan: All-Natural, Water Birth For Their First Baby

I tend not to pay celebrity pregnancies any kind of mind. I mean, the stories always seem to whip up all kinds of innuendo, insult...

– Feb 11, 2013

Birthing While Black: This African American Mom’s Experience Was Anything But VIP

There are a ton of things I’ll never forget about the first time I gave birth—showing up with a Donny Hathaway CD in one hand,...

– Jan 25, 2012
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