Join the conversation with Freedom To Know Wellness in Season 2, Episode 1—an episode honouring Black Maternal Health Week, April 11–17. Hear one Black woman's powerful journey navigating chronic pain and maternal care within the Canadian healthcare system. She represents many Black women and Women of Colour who face a system often marked by neglect and medical gaslighting. A system built on biased standards—rooted in comparisons based on the race and gender of its original, dominant population.

Black Maternal Health Week, "Emphasizes the power of Black-led perinatal, maternal, and reproductive health organizations to drive systemic change and foster community healing." Quote by Black Mamas Matter.

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Timestamp

0:00 FTKWellness Intro

0:56 Facts On Black Maternal Health

2:27 Interview (Intro on Guest: Efia)

5:42 Chronic Pain, Advocacy, Medical Gaslighting, Care, & Women of Colour

35:48 Anxiety and Silencing: Managing the Medical System 

40:55 TTC/Pregnancy/ Chronic Pain/ Medical System & Race

48:47 Race & Medical System - Reference Intervals (RIs)

56:20 Black-led OB, Birth Mortality Rates,  Maternal Collective Care 

01:14:06 Partners Genes Impacting Pregnancy

01:17:12 Post-Partum Healing with Chronic Pain