The Realities of Black Maternal Health

Mommy Labor Nurse

Liesel Teen

Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

his episode of The Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast is all about the realities of black maternal health here in the US, and what we can do to spark change!

We’ve done some feed posts over on IG about this topic before to help raise awareness, but I knew I wanted to take more of a deep dive over here.

It’s a topic that can be really heavy in some ways, but it’s one that needs a LOT of light! If we’re going to spark any kind of change surrounding racism in healthcare (and specifically in black maternal health) I truly believe that awareness is the first step.

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0:00.0	you're listening to the Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast episode number 73.
0:05.0	Hey guys, happy Monday. So this week, April 11th through 17th is Black Maternal Health Week.
0:12.1	So I figured we would do an episode this week all about the Black Maternal Mortality Rate.
0:18.4	And we've posted about this on our feed before. I think it's a subject that can be really heavy
0:26.1	in some ways, but I think it needs a lot of light. And I wanted to do a podcast episode on it
0:32.9	for a while. And I figured this was a great week to do it. So the Black Mamas Matter Alliance
0:38.4	is sponsoring third annual Black Maternal Health Week from, like I said, at this week, April 11th
0:44.4	through 17th, as part of the observation of a national minority health month in April.
0:50.8	Rates of maternal morbidity and mortality are much higher in the United States than in our
0:56.3	peer nations. And national severe maternal morbidity rates have nearly doubled over the past decade,
1:03.2	significantly higher for Black women versus white women. So to help mitigate these rates,
1:08.7	the Black Mamas Matter Alliance will observe Black Maternal Health Week to raise awareness of the
1:13.8	problem, enrich the dialogues surrounding Black maternal health, promote solutions, policies,
1:19.6	and research, and increase community involvement, which is exactly what we're going to do today.
1:25.2	We're involved. So guys, this episode is really cool. Even if you're not a Black mom and you're
1:32.4	a white mom or you're a mom of a different race, I think this episode is really cool and really
1:36.8	interesting to tune into. I learned a whole lot. So this week I had my dear friend,
1:43.2	Jasmine Johnson. She is a MD, a wife, a mother of two, and a maternal fetal medicine fellow at the
1:50.9	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Woohoo! My home state! My home, well, I'm not in Chapel Hill,
1:56.9	I'm in Raleigh, but I'm near Chapel Hill. Dr. Johnson received her undergraduate degree from the
2:03.3	University of Michigan Medical degree at Indiana University School of Medicine and completed her
2:09.2	residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
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