EBB 161 - Addressing Maternity Bias and Infant Care with Irth app Founder, Kimberly Seals Allers
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.6 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On today’s podcast, I'm excited to talk with Kimberly Seals Allers. Kimberly is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker, strategist, and advocate for maternal and infant health. A former senior editor at Essence, and a writer at Fortune Magazine, Kimberly is a leading voice on the socio-cultural complexities of motherhood. Kimberly is also the founder of Irth, a new app to address bias in maternity and infant care.
We talk about how Kimberly’s new app, Irth, which addresses biased maternal care and cultural competency when serving marginalized communities. We also talk about the challenges Kimberly overcame after launching Irth.
**Content Warning: We discuss racism/racial violence, Black maternal mortality, and infant mortality.**
Learn more about Kimberly Seals Allers and the Irth app here (https://birthwithoutbias.com/who-we-are). Follow Kimberly Seals Allers on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/iamKSealsAllers/) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/iamksealsallers/?hl=en). Learn about Narrative Nation, Inc here (https://wewriteus.org/). Learn more about Kimberly’s books, “Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy” here (https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-mocha-manual-to-a-fabulous-pregnancy-kimberly-seals-allers) and “The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding” here (https://www.amazon.com/Big-Letdown-Medicine-Undermine-Breastfeeding/dp/1250026962).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk about addressing bias in maternity |
| 0:05.2 | care and pediatric care with Earth App founder Kimberly Seals Allers. Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. |
| 0:22.0 | Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information |
| 0:26.7 | into the hands of families and professionals around the world. |
| 0:30.0 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:34.0 | See EBbirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to this episode of the Evidence Based |
| 0:42.0 | birth podcast where we're going to talk about addressing bias in maternity care and pediatric care with the founder of the Earth app. |
| 0:49.0 | Before we get started, just a quick content warning, we will be talking about racial violence |
| 0:53.8 | black maternal mortality and infant mortality in this episode and now I'd like to |
| 0:58.1 | introduce our honored guest Kimberly Seals Alers. Kimberly is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker, |
| 1:06.0 | strategist, and advocate for maternal and infant health. A former senior editor at |
| 1:11.2 | Essence and a writer at Fortune magazine, Kimberly is a |
| 1:14.6 | leading voice on the sociocultural complexities of motherhood. |
| 1:18.0 | Kimberly is also the founder of Earth, a new app to address bias in maternity and infant care. |
| 1:24.0 | Welcome, Kimberly, to the Evidence Space Birth Podcast. |
| 1:27.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:29.0 | We are thrilled that you were willing to come on the podcast. |
| 1:32.0 | I've been wanting to |
| 1:32.8 | interview you for quite some time now and I was wondering if you could tell us |
| 1:36.7 | a little bit about your journey to becoming an advocate from maternal and infant |
| 1:40.3 | health from being a journalist. |
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