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The Unapologetically Black PodcastThe Unapologetically Black PodcastPeople put a pressure on motherhood to be amazing: Black Maternal Mental HealthWhat do you know about maternal mental health? How common is loneliness with new parents? Where is the safest place in the world for a Black woman to have a baby? In this episode we dive into maternal mental health from our fears of becoming a mum to generational parenting styles to postpartum depression and support available.________Hosts: Dr. Leanne Levers (@leebeeja) & Roshan Roberts ( @roshanroberts_) Special Guest; Dr Jamila Carey - Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist________📧 Email us any topics you’d like us to cover or feedb...2024-05-0255 minIgnite The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Inspiring!Ignite The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Inspiring!Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America by Monique Rainford MDPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710670to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America Author: Monique Rainford MD Narrator: Monique Rainford MD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: A tragedy is unfolding all around us and is receiving well overdue attention. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than their white peers. But Dr. Monique Rainford is working to better understand these disparities and do something about them. Pregnant While Black is a hopeful exploration of the issues pregnant Black women...2023-12-057h 55Get Best Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Medicine & NaturopathyGet Best Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Medicine & NaturopathyPregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America by Monique Rainford MDPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710670to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America Author: Monique Rainford MD Narrator: Monique Rainford MD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy Publisher's Summary: A tragedy is unfolding all around us and is receiving well overdue attention. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than their white peers. But Dr. Monique Rainford is working to better understand these disparities and do something about them. Pregnant While Black is a hopeful exploration of the issues pregnant Black women...2023-12-057h 55In ConversationIn ConversationIn Conversation: Can 'biological race' explain disparities in health?In this episode, we discuss why health disparities between different racial and ethnic groups, including those that surfaced during the COVID-19 pandemic, cannot be explained by biological race. We also explore how racism affects the health and well-being of future generations. Joining the conversation are Dr. Monique Rainford, obstetrician and gynecologist at Yale School of Medicine and author of the book "Pregnant While Black," and Angela Saini, science journalist and author whose most recent work includes the book "Superior: The Return of Race Science."2023-07-3138 minHolistic Wealth With Keisha BlairHolistic Wealth With Keisha BlairEmpowering Black Women's Health: A Conversation with Dr. Monique Rainford (Author, Pregnant While Black)Black women in many countries, including the United States, face higher rates of maternal mortality, preterm birth, low birth weight, and other pregnancy complications compared to their white counterparts. Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women. In an article in the New York Observer, entitled “What is Causing The High Maternal Death Rate Among Black Women in America?”, I highlighted that “in the U.S., Black expectant mothers are 243 percent more likely to die from childbirth-related causes than white women. Black women are also 49 percent more likely to deliver prematurely than w...2023-05-2929 minHolistic Wealth With Keisha BlairHolistic Wealth With Keisha BlairEmpowering Black Women's Health: A Conversation with Dr. Monique RainfordBlack women in many countries, including the United States, face higher rates of maternal mortality, preterm birth, low birth weight, and other pregnancy complications compared to their white counterparts. Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women. In an article in the New York Observer, entitled “What is Causing The High Maternal Death Rate Among Black Women in America?”, I highlighted that “in the U.S., Black expectant mothers are 243 percent more likely to die from childbirth-related causes than white women. Black women are also 49 percent more likely to deliver prematurely than w...2023-05-2929 min20-Minute Health Talk20-Minute Health TalkPregnant while Black: A conversation with Dr. Monique RainfordOn this episode, Sandra Lindsay speaks with Monique Rainford, MD, about her new book, "Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America." The Yale Medicine OB-GYN discusses the role implicit bias and institutional racism play in the birthing experience for Black women in the United States. She offers strategies to reduce maternal mortality rates, which are three times higher for Black women than their white peers.  Podcast transcript 2023-04-2716 minWhat Do You Mean By That?What Do You Mean By That?177: Why Reproductive Justice Is Also About Race - Especially If You’re BlackThis episode was recorded before the Dobbs decision came out, but it highlights what we know to be true - there is a disparate impact on Black and brown women when it comes to reproductive justice in this country. And for all of you who have told us, “I’d really like to be friends with Black women, but I don’t understand their experiences,” you’ll want to listen extra carefully.    This episode highlights all of the extra things that Black women go through when it comes to things that should be safe in our country...2022-07-2610 minMillennial HealthMillennial HealthMillennials desiring marriageSimilar to many professional millennial women who desire marriage, Dr. Monique Rainford did not have a straight and easy path to finding her life partner.Her personal experience and those of the many women whom she interacted with both socially and through her OB/GYN practice led her to write the book Please God Send Me a Husband. With her own experience and that of the more than fifty women she interviewed, she has provided a roadmap, complete with traffic signs, roadblocks and potholes that women encounter on the way to marriage. Whether or not they succeed...2021-06-1526 minPublic Health @UGAPublic Health @UGA(Season 3) Things that Matter: Episode 22 (Maternal Morbidity)In this episode, we will be focusing on the racial disparity in maternal morbidity. By analyzing poverty, racism, and stigma within the healthcare system, we hope to reach out to everyone from all socioeconomic statuses, races, and genders, to spread awareness of the issue, and to push the public to elect people in positions that will actively dismantle systematic barriers associated with maternal morbidity. Sources TED Talk, America's Maternal Nightmare (Dr. Monique Rainford): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzuMxI3-km8 2020-11-2419 minWhat Do You Mean By That?What Do You Mean By That?Black Maternal Healthcare: Racial Disparities in the US Healthcare SystemAre you aware of the racial disparity that exists in the US healthcare system? And did you know that some people are actually dying unnecessarily as a result? Today, Sara talks to Dr. Monique Rainford, an OB/GYN from Jamaica, who recently did a phenomenal TEDx talk, called America’s Maternal Nightmare, about black maternal health in America. In her talk, Dr. Rainford peeled back the layers and very clearly revealed the disparities that exist within the US healthcare system, particularly when it comes to black maternal health. According to statistics, the health of African American women is...2019-06-2635 min