Black Maternal Health Coalition

02/02/2022

Join Us February 3rd at noon, EST for a live conversation and tribute to Terri Jo Curtis

02/02/2022

- Writing Oh Sis, You’re Pregnant!: The Ultimate Guide To Black Pregnancy and Motherhood is one of my best achievements. This is a book that will continue to guide Black women through their pregnancies for years to come. If you are a woman of color and pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant, you need a copy of this book. Shop on Amazon! 💕

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/164250498X/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8

02/02/2022

01/31/2022

It’s all fun and games
And sexy breathing exercises for birth
And romantic plans about how he’ll take the baby while you do yoga every day

Until you’re 10 days postpartum
Still bleeding and soaked in breastmilk
Riding a roller coaster of hormones and sleep deprivation
And your lovely partner forgets to pick up a smoothie on his way home from the grocery store

And you lose your sh✨t
Like sobbing into the bathroom sink
Like cursing his mother
Like wondering why you ever procreated with someone capable of such unimaginable selfishness

And then, when the storm has passed, and you’ve had a snack- you realize
Two shaky, raw, sleep deprived humans
Trying to be life rafts for one another
While sinking into the depths of exhaustion and stress
Keeping the tiniest, most fragile, precious being afloat
Is hard AF

We weren’t meant to do this alone
We were not meant to be sent out to sea on a tiny little life boat with no map
Even the most loving, stable partnership can sink under the weight of operating in survival mode while finding your footing as parents

So, if you’re out there, treading water
Buried in laundry and breastmilk
Surviving on freezer pizza and three hours of sleep
Thinking mildly unkind thoughts about the person you chose to parent with
Because he can’t seem to calm the baby or remember your smoothies or grasp the depths of the earth shaking transition you’re navigating
You’re not alone
And it will get easier
One sleepy, shaky day at a time

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01/26/2022

Happy Birthday to political activist, philosopher, academic, scholar, and author Angela Davis! ✨

She is still going strong in the name of Black liberation. Let us give her all the flowers while she is still here to enjoy them. We love you and thank you immensely Angela.

[ID: Angela Davis photographed circa 1972. With quote “WHEN BLACK WOMEN WIN VICTORIES, IT IS A BOOST FOR VIRTUALLY EVERY SEGMENT OF SOCIETY.”]

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