Welcome! My name is Lou-Ann and I’m the creator of Well Worth Watering, a blog and online community that uses education, empowerment and transformative storytelling in order to nourish the maternal health experiences of black birthing people. I opened this episode with a reading of my first blog. In so many ways, this new beginning—expanding my work into a podcast— stirs up many of the feelings and conviction I had back then. As we work to dismantle the disparities that exist in black maternal health, we can't ignore the narrative. We have to uplift as many stories of success as we do stories of sorrow. Lou-Ann's goal is to fearlessly hold space for both. You can read the piece heard in this episode here.
