black infant immortality rates
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...
MyBrownBaby Staff – 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...
Denene Millner – Feb 11, 2013
A Different Labor Day: Improving Maternity Health For Black Moms and Babies
Labor Day holds a very special place in my heart for a very specific reason: I grew up in a household with parents who were...
Denene Millner – Sep 3, 2012
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,...
Denene Millner – Jan 25, 2012
