Black people have thicker skin, and so they don't perceive pain, their pain perception

like they have a higher pain tolerance.

And people actually said that they thought that was true or that they clotted faster.

Those types of things that would affect how they assess the patient and whether or not

they think they're in pain.

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And now let's get into this week's episode.

Happy Monday, guys.

To this week, this episode of the Mommy Liburner's podcast is all about the realities of Black

Maternal Health here in the United States and what we can do to spark change.

So this episode I actually did put out last year or a year and a half ago, but I wanted

to re-release it today in honor of this week Black Maternal Health Week.

So we, at Mommy Liburners, have done some feed posts over on Instagram and stories about

this topic before to help raise awareness, but I knew with this podcast, I wanted to

take more of a deep dive here, you know, here on the podcast and just talk a little bit

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