Birthmark: Pregnant While Black

Failing Postpartum Support for Black Mothers


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Consider this a hot take. With a shorter episode than usual, we dig deep into postpartum support, maternal paid, and lack thereof for black women. It is frustrating for so many resources and funding to go into prenatal and childbirth resources and nothing to support the real work women need postpartum to care for their newborns. Yvonna breaks down the cause and effect of the absence of support, postpartum depression and what national paid maternity leave would look like in the U.S... if it existed.

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Birthmark: Pregnant While BlackBy Yvonna Roderick

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