This week we welcome Zakiyah and Amina Woods, Emmanuel Perez and Brooke and Colin Smith to talk Parenting, the disconnect between expecting mothers and fathers, the need for fathers to seek therapy and outside support systems during pregnancy, how expecting families benefit from having a Doula, dealing with infant loss, the Maternal Mortality rate and why its so high for Black Women.  Enjoy. 

Todays episode features Zakiyah Woods who speaks on why she started the Dads Get Sad seminar Maternal Gatekeeping and how she found compassion for fathers after having bad experiences with men in her own persoanl life. 

Links to help

Go To Postpartum.Net to get nationwide access to help and support groups for when you are going thru the postpartum period