Birthright

Birthright

By Kimberly Seals AllersParentingKids & Family
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Birthright episodes

  • Morine’s Joy: A Dream Birthing Team Goes Viral

    What does it take to have a positive birth experience? Apparently, depending on where you live, it can take a lot of time searching for the right provider. In this episode, Morine shares her beautiful birth story after moving from the Durham, N.C. to Knoxville, TN mid-pregnancy and her quest to find a provider who looked like her. Along the way I explore the history and impact of Black women Ob/GYNs, the standard of care white women receive, and how digital platforms are helping to level the playing field.


    Check out HealthInHerHUE.com, a digital platform connecting Black women and women of color to culturally competent healthcare providers. 


    Looking for a Black provider? Check out the Association of Black Women Physicians, Black Doctors USA or the search portal at BlackDoctors.org as a starting point. 


    Learn more about having a safe and empowered birth by downloading the free ebook: Birth with Irth: A Mini-Manual to Pregnancy and Childbirth for Black People 


    Get full episode details and transcripts (posted by midday) on www.BirthrightPodcast.com 


    New episodes are released every other Wednesday! Subscribe now!  


    Follow Kimberly Seals Allers on Twitter on Instagram: @iamKSealsAllers 


    Birthright is funded by the California Health Care Foundation.


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    48 min
  • Whitney’s Journey: From Planned Homebirth to Preemie Birth

    On this episode of Birthright, Kimberly Seals Allers interviews Whitney Robinson, a design-loving product manager and mother of four. As with her other children, Whitney planned a home birth, but 25-weeks into her pregnancy she went into premature labor and, with her husband and support team, she was determined to turn the unthinkable into an unapologetically Black experience. 


    Resources/References:


    • Stark racial disparities exist in pre-term births. For example, in 2019, the rate of preterm birth among African-American women (14.4%) was about 50 percent higher than the rate of preterm birth among white or Hispanic women (9.3% and 10% respectively). Source: CDC: Reproductive Health 
    • Learn more about having a safe and empowered birth by downloading the free ebook: Birth with Irth: A Mini-Manual to Pregnancy and Childbirth for Black People 
    • Get full episode details and transcripts (posted by midday) on www.BirthrightPodcast.com 
    • New episodes are released every other Wednesday! Subscribe now!  
    • Follow Kimberly Seals Allers on Twitter on Instagram: @iamKSealsAllers 


    Birthright is funded by the California Health Care Foundation. 


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    35 min
  • Introducing Birthright
    Birthright, hosted by Kimberly Seals Allers, a podcast about joy and healing in Black birth. By seeking out and exploring positive birth stories we can find ideas, solutions and blind spots in our quest to make the birth experience equitable for all Black birthing bodies. 

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    4 min

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Birthright, hosted by Kimberly Seals Allers, a podcast about joy and healing in Black birth. By seeking out and exploring positive birth stories we can find ideas, solutions and blind spots in our…