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A Mini-Manual to Pregnancy and Childbirth for Black People.

SUBMIT YOUR STORY 🫂🗣 Next month @iamksealsallers is hosting a healing circle on the Birthright podcast, and we’re looking for mamas who want to join the healing 🫂 If you have had a traumatic birth experience and want to be a part of this virtual circle please send us a DM! We understand that birthing trauma is a difficult thing to address, and folks should do it on their own timeline. At Irth, we hold space for those who are willing to share their traumatic experiences. Black birthing needs healing. Too many Black women and birthing individuals are left holding trauma and unresolved hurt due to the mistreatment, dismissiveness, or disrespect they endured during the childbirth experience. It’s time to model healing journeys for those carrying birth trauma, so we can all find joy! Birthright— a podcast about joy and healing in Black birth— is looking to host it's second “healing circle” featuring folks who may have had a traumatic birth experience to discuss how we can heal the Black birth space. This event will center the story and storyteller as well as have a healing practitioner join the discussion. ❤️‍🩹 Photo Source: @sese_doula

TAG YOUR FRIENDS WHO GAVE BIRTH IN DETROIT 📳 🧡📢 In a partnership with Ascension St. John Hospital, we need folks who have birth and received maternal healthcare there to leave reviews in the Irth app! Maternal death rates more than doubled between 1990 and 2013 in the US (WHO reports) Which means Millenial birthing people are twice as likely to die in or shortly after childbirth than their parents. There isn’t a database with the kind of information on maternal healthcare that you really need to hear about healthcare practitioners and institutions — help us build Irth into that by leaving your prenatal, birthing, postpartum and pediatric reviews of the care you recieved. Help us build a better birthing future! Link in bio to download the app 📳

M.E I & M.E II 🤍 photos by Kierra Johnson for @womanlymag Black Maternal Health Issue, a magazine that has preventive health info for Black birthing folks as well as art that reflects the experiences of birthing while Black. We hope all of you parents and your babies are always able to receive the intimacy of care that comes through in these photos! 🫂🙌🏾📢

Mamas! Partners! Doulas! Mark your calendars for our very first Irth-A-Thon ✨☎️✨📲✨ After celebrating Juneteenth, we’re continuing a recognition of our freedom and our power to change with a fund and review raiser for Irth. This resource will be its best when we have millions of reviews across the country. If you haven’t left at least TWO prenatal, birthing, postpartum or pediatric reviews on the app this is an opportunity to be guided through one with someone who’s an advocate for black, brown and poc birthing folks. You’ll be able to share your experience in the app and have any questions that come up for you answered. Not only will you be creating a better birthing and maternal care journey for other families in your area, but you’ll be joining a community of life-saving voices. Details on who you can call and how you can participate will be coming soon, but save the date and stay tuned with our content over the next few days as we give updates! [Image Text] COMING JUNE 25th In honor of Juneteenth, we’re celebrating our road to birthing freedom with a fundraiser and “review raiser”! Call I’m and leave your prenatal, birthing or pediatric review LIVE with your favorite influencer, birthworker or advocate! SAVE THE DATE! GUEST ANNOUNCEMENTS COMING SOON

Whatever your nursing journey has looked like— we see you. #GraceFull 🕊 *Sharing this post from @gracefullbirth and reminding you that on irthapp.com we have a list of lactation consultants under the Resources tab. What was/is your infant-feeding journey like? Tell us in the comments ⬇️🗣📢 and then let folks on the Irth app know about the lactation support in your area! 📸: @sophiekietzmann

Recently there’s been an update to the VBAC calculator (measures the likelihood that a person will have a successful vaginal birth after having previously had a C-section) — race has been removed as a factor. ✨ Historically, Black women have received lower VBAC success scores because of the racial bias that assumes higher health risks for Black women and other communities of color, without properly assessing the racism and bias that contributes to our poorer outcomes. ⁠
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This article from @statnews highlights what the change means, and why this is a long overdue update. It also points out (as does @dorothyroberts in the last slide) that this is not a fix. Acknowledgement is crucial for progress, and this will hopefully cause many healthcare practitioners to check their biases — especially the ones that they think aren’t racist because they don’t understand how much racism is carried out via “scientific” or (to them) seemingly objective ideas. ⁠
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It’s a small step, but small steps are what make the journey possible! We’re happy to be providing one of those steps with Irth. ⁠
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Have you been given a low VBAC score, or a different score than what you’d hoped for? What was that experience like? Tell us in the comments 📢⬇️

Let’s Talk About Irth Baby 🙌🏾✨👶🏾 Join us this Friday June 11th for a discussion between Irth founder @iamksealsallers and The Health Committee @naacpbaltimore 🎙 This virtual event will be hosted by NAACP Baltimore on Facebook Live (link in our bio) at 1pm EST / 10am PST. Come for the conversation on birthing and the disparities that Irth is working to fix! Tell your birthing friends and family to attend, and keep spreading the word about The Irth App! Tag a friend you think should attend in the comments ✊🏾📢 #birthwithoutfear

From the Irth blog: Latinx Mamas + Maternal Healthcare 💛 As we often say, people are not being treated the same way at the same institutions. The disparities in positive birth and maternal care outcomes among Latinx birthing people is not right. There’s a lot of bias that needs to be broken down, and a lot of politics that negatively impact Latinx communities — including of course mothers. This piece on our blog addresses the root of some of these disparities. There’s a nearly %40 uninsured rate among the community, and we’ve discussed before how being Black or brown AND uninsured is a major risk to mamas in a racist and greedy healthcare system. This piece offers some solutions for Latinx mamas who want to take steps to feel safer when caring for their health. We’re here for you! Read the full article on irthapp.com (or the link in our bio) and download the irth app to tell your maternal care stories. ✨✊🏾✨🙌🏾✨🤎

This is a WORD from @dr.thema ✍🏾🙌🏾🤎 In the maternal health space — being mistreated can lead to fatal repercussions at worst and systemic change at best. Even with our system of data collection for systemic change, that trauma still affects birthing people of color daily. What makes matters worse is that the disrespect and neglect can leave you feeling invisible, because these systems work hard to make us feel inferior and incapable of advocating for ourselves. Our hope is that you get the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual support that you need on your pregnancy and/or parenthood journey. When you’re ready, make sure to share your experiences with your birthing peers because it could save their lives and be the difference between joy and trauma. You deserve your best birth. You deserve to be heard. You deserve to be treated with genuine care and respect for your body. 🤎✊🏾🤎 #birthsupport #birthwithoutfear #birthwithconfidence

Tiffany Mensah (a Black woman in her 30’s) died during childbirth this past April. We still don’t have details surround her passing but we know that this happens far too often, and our work seeks to bring it to an end. Our love and thoughts are with her baby girl and the rest of her family as well as her spirit. These are the numbers: Black birthing people over 30 die at four to five times the rate of white birthing people. It happens because of racial discrimination and medical negligence. People are not being treated the same way at the same place. Black women have been paying the highest price. ✨✨✨ We’re doing the work to change that, and honor the ones gone too soon. 🤎✊🏾 #SayHerName
#BlackBirthsAreWorthy #BlackLifeIsEssential #DismantleSystemsofHarm
#birthwithoutfear #birthingwhileblack
#birthingjustice
#blackmamasmatter
#tiffanymensah #blm
#blackmaternalhealth
#blackmaternalmortality

“I’m so grateful to be able to share my experiences so these families can birth how they should — with dignity and honor!” ~ Lene • Queens, NY This word from one of our early app users really articulates one of our main goals: to lead birthing folks to their best possible birthing experience. Because racialized birthing people and their babies matter, and deserve to #birthwithoutfear ✊🏾 For too long, the medical system has operated without transparency or any public accountability, particularly to Black women who are disproportionately dying in hospital settings during and after childbirth. Our back-end database, turns your qualitative experiences into quantitative data to identify patterns and behaviors, as we leverage the collective power of Black and brown consumers to push for social change. 🙌🏿✨👶🏿✨⚖️ Download the Irth App, and keep your community informed or search for a birthing hospital or ObGyn that you can trust at irthapp.com 🔥 #birthwithconfidence Photo Credit: @sarahmaverickphoto 🤍

According to research done by @blackfeministhealth , the word racism appears in less than %1 of medical journals published over the last 30 years. Which begs the question: How do we address racial bias across healthcare when medical research doesn’t even acknowledge its presence? 🤔 The following quote from the Black Feminist Health Science Studies perfectly sums up what happens when racism isn’t acknowledged ⬇️ “The non-publication of existing credible scientific research on racism and health: 1️⃣ Conveys the message that this topic
doesn't warrant scientific study or publication. 2️⃣ Fosters ignorance among health professionals, who transmit this ignorance to their patients and clients.” If you have ever experienced racism while receiving prenatal, birthing or postpartum care—download The Irth App and help us collect this much needed data! This knowledge is how we change the state of birthing in America. This is how we begin to ensure that Black, Indigenous and POC birthing folks can #birthwithoutfear ✨

✨ IRTH PARTNERS WANTED ✨ We’re looking to partner with community organizations to collect data for the Irth app. If you are interested in partnering with us, please get in touch. Know an org you think we should partner with? Tag them in the comments! 🤝💖🤝 #birthwithoutfear
#birthwithconfidence
#birthwithirth

Repost from @asianbirthcollective 🤍✨📢✊🏾 •
An important part of our birth stories is deeply connected and rooted in where we come from and who we are. Our ancestors, our families (including ourselves) came to live in this country for different reasons (love, work opportunities, family ties, etc.). Many of our families have also arrived here today (or have been colonized to become part of) as result of conflict, conquest, and colonization. Some of us had a choice to be here, some of us didn't. Here in America, we're often categorized and grouped together as "asian-americans" or "pacific islanders," —but in fact, our ancestry and our identity is unique and distinct. We are Chinese, Koreans, Indians, Laotians, Samoans, Fijians, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, etc. We are diverse and multi-heritaged. We are complex and powerful. We are many. Our birthing histories go far back, beautifully rooted in family, in our land, and in rituals that symbolize a new beginning,— which is often lost through time and space. It's important to recognize that generations and generations of our ancestors were birthed by midwives and community healers. We exist today because of their wisdom,— that which is embedded in the molecules of our beings and lives in the way we move through the world. We hope that the stories we tell recognizes the importance of how our own births weave in so much of our own personal stories, our histories and the stories of our ancestors. Our birth breaks the silence between the past and future generations, —weaving a bridge into who we are, and where we come from ✨ (image sources: 1.Korea / Unknown 2. Indonesia / wowshack.org 3. Ainu / historydaily.org 4.India / John Van Noat 5. Philipines / wrapyourbaby.com 6. Taiwan / John Thomson)

This week on the Birthright podcast, @iamksealsallers talks to viral twin mama @folashadebutler and her doctor @drlynnelightfoote 🤍 Giving birth to twins during the pandemic can be stressful enough. And too many Black women feel like they do not have meaningful relationships with their OB/GYN. So when Folashade Butler, of the metro Washington D.C. area, found herself delivering her twins earlier than expected and in less than ideal circumstances, she found comfort and felt more confident mostly because of one thing--her relationship with her doctor. And it was her OB/GYN, who helped her birthing video go viral. Listen to find out why! (Link in bio) ✨👶🏾👶🏾✨ #blackbirthmatters

The Birth Without Bias Mini Report ✨👩🏽‍💻✨ We’re on a mission to eradicate racism and bias from maternity and infant care and to bring public accountability and transparency to the medical system. We do that by turning doctor and hospital reviews from Black and brown parents in the Irth app into qualitative and quantitative data that’s available to the public and used by hospitals to improve the care of Black women and other people of color who are giving birth. We’re just getting started (please leave your reviews to help us grow) but this ⬆️ what we’re learning thus far! 👶🏾 #birthwithoutbias

We have been really appreciating @tressiemcphd for engaging in the conversation that took place on @redtabletalk recently! In this first clip, Tressie gives us some insight on how to advocate for yourself in medical institutions where you’re being disrespected or ignored. “I want Black folks to start treating the doctor like we treat a service provider. Black women don't play if the food is cold.” 👏🏾 It's imperative that we push for accountability and transparency for doctors and hospitals where we are often valid in feeling afraid or unsafe. In the second clip, she touches on her own story of loss and mistreatment. The story we hear all too often. The story were all working to edit for future generations. Big thank you to Tressie, @jadapinkettsmith, @gammynorris, @willowsmith, @tamikadmallory and the whole #RedTableTalk team for touching on this issue! 🙌🏾✨ #birthwithoutfear #birthwithoutbias

From The Irth Blog: Postpartum Justice Via Asian American Traditions 💥 In this grounded and heartfelt essay, mama / auntie / activist @ninaichi talks about finding clarity in the traditions of (in this case) the exponential number of mothers who came before us. Among the many and varied Asian cultural groups around the globe, people have been giving birth and bringing up babies for an incredibly long time. Countless mothers have passed down and evolved the wisdom of their foremothers, and Nina wants us not to forget these things. As she says, “We can reach back to ancient wisdom and make it part of a new American culture that is pro-woman, pro-health and culturally diverse.” Read the full article at the link in our bio! #aapiheritagemonth Here are some more Asian mamas and maternal justice orgs to follow (tag more for us in the comments!): @thefirstfortydays
@asianbirthcollective
@motherbees
@_momo_chang (on twitter) [Image Text 2-7] I didn’t enter pregnancy or birth with a clear image of what I should be doing, but I was surprised with the lack of support I was given to fill that void. I assumed I’d be able to ask my OB-GYN about nutrition, fitness, and feelings to expect when I was pregnant for the first time in 2016. Instead, I was in and out of there in under 15 minutes, a consequence of our for-profit medical system that sees my doctor and I as numbers to be made money off of, rather than humans seeking to be healthy. I switched to an expensive midwife, who was a little better, but I was still disappointed with the lack of culturally relevant nutritional advice.
- In American hospitals, all they seem to be able to offer you is a screeching mechanical breast pump and a harsh lecture on the benefits or breastfeeding – or an 8-pack of starter formula. I didn’t want either of those! I wanted to learn how to nourish my body as it went through the marathon of birth, recovery, and up to a year of breastfeeding – and ensure I was helping to build the healthiest possible baby through my breastmilk.
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🔎 Giving birth in America as a Black or brown or poc or lgbtq or unmarried or uninsured person means being treated as an “other”. That sadly often means disrespect and neglectful care. Research (and just talking to marginalized people) shows us that compared to white birthing people, Black and other minority women are mistreated and / or die under the care of biased doctors and staff in our medical system. While we encourage access to doulas and midwives, we know that hospital births will be the reality for many moms, and we want you to #birthwithconfidence 👏🏾 Download Irth today, and read through reviews from other birthing parents in your area! What questions did you Google or ask your peers before giving birth? Answer in the comments ⬇️ #birthwithoutfear

May is #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth and we’re especially concerned with the mental well-being of Black, brown, indigenous and poc birthing people. Being marginalized and facing disrespect, injury and death in the medical system is emotionally and mentally intense. It’s unsurprising that many mothers / birthing parents end up with some form of postpartum depression. Read the full article at the link in our bio 🤍💫 #postpartumdepression [Image Text Slides 2-4] About 10 to 20% of women will struggle with symptoms of depression during pregnancy and a quarter to half of these will suffer from major depression. It is not that surprising a condition when you consider that pregnancy depression is a mood disorder just as normal depression is. Mood disorders are biological illnesses that involve changes and brain chemicals. And since pregnancy hormones can affect brain chemicals directly related to depression and anxiety, pregnant women can be, in some cases, more susceptible. The bigger problem with depression as it relates to Black women is that symptoms closely resemble something we call life. We have convinced ourselves that feeling sad overwhelmed, lonely, and sick and tired are part and parcel of being a Black woman, particularly a strong Black woman. So we have a lot of denial about depression, which our folk negatively label as, “crazy,” “weak,” or “lazy.” We rationalize that being a strong Black woman from a line of similar women who survived with an indomitable spirit, somehow makes us immune to depression. The statistics on Black women are scared and uncertain, not because we don’t suffer from depression but because we don’t associate those types of feelings with a real Illness, but rather with passing things that we shall overcome.

Irth is a project of Narrative Nation, a New York-based 501(c)(3), that creates narrative-centered media and technology to address health disparities. Narrative Nation is a tech non-profit that champions health equity by democratizing the story of inequities to foster systemic change and catalyze behavioral shifts. Learn more at www.WeWriteUs.org