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WURD RadioKimberly Seals-Allers - 4.24.25 Soulful Sunrise w/ Karen Taylor BassKimberly Seals-Allers joins the show. She is the Author & Founder of 'Irth App', and tells us how it can serve as and advocate for maternal care.2025-04-2431 min
PodnosisFighting maternal and infant health inequitiesIn this week’s episode of “Podnosis,” Fierce Healthcare’s Anastassia Gliadkovskaya explores the topic of inequities in maternal and infant health and what one nonprofit is doing to increase transparency and accountability. She chats with Kimberly Seals Allers, a journalist by background who is passionate about narrative storytelling. Seals Allers runs Birthright, a podcast highlighting positive Black birthing experiences, and is the founder of Irth, an app that collects and shares reviews of hospitals and doctors by Black and brown birthing people. Armed with those insights, Irth works with providers to identify areas for improvement and to close...2024-07-1720 min
Get New Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceThe Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding by Kimberly Seals AllersPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding Author: Kimberly Seals Allers Narrator: Carmen Jewel Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Pediatricians say you should but it's okay if you don't. The hospital says, 'Breast is best,' but sends you home with formula 'just in case.' Your sister-in-law says, 'Of course you should!' Your mother says, 'I didn't, and you turned out just fine.' Celebrities are photographed nursing in public, yet breastfeeding...2024-06-1830 min
Explore New Full Audiobooks in Self-Improvement, Parenting TipsThe Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding by Kimberly Seals AllersPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767027to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding
Author: Kimberly Seals Allers
Narrator: Carmen Jewel Jones
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Release date: June 18, 2024
Genres: Parenting Tips
Publisher's Summary:
Pediatricians say you should but it's okay if you don't. The hospital says, 'Breast is best,' but sends you home with formula 'just in case.' Your sister-in-law says, 'Of course you should!' Your mother says, 'I didn't, and you turned out just fine.' Celebrities are photographed nursing in public, yet breastfeeding mothers...2024-06-189h 29
Explore New Free Audiobooks in Self-Improvement, Parenting TipsThe Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding by Kimberly Seals AllersPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding Author: Kimberly Seals Allers Narrator: Carmen Jewel Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Parenting Tips Publisher's Summary: Pediatricians say you should but it's okay if you don't. The hospital says, 'Breast is best,' but sends you home with formula 'just in case.' Your sister-in-law says, 'Of course you should!' Your mother says, 'I didn't, and you turned out just fine.' Celebrities are photographed nursing in public, yet breastfeeding...2024-06-1830 min
Before Birth & Beyond: Improving Care in MCHS2 E3: Empowering Black and Brown Women to Share their Experiences of CareS2, E3 Show NotesEPISODE 3 SUMMARY: Recognize National Minority Health Month with NICHQ! This year's theme is: Be the Source for Better Health: Improving Health Outcomes Through Our Cultures, Communities, and Connections. Tune in to our latest episode to hear from Kimberly Seals Allers, creator of the IRTH app who shares how IRTH works with communities and hospitals to improve health care quality for Black and brown women and birthing people. Main Story: Empowering Black and Brown Women to Share their Experiences of CareSEGMENT SUMMARY:2024-04-2520 min
Fourth Trimester: The First Months and Beyond | Parenting | Newborn Baby | Postpartum | DoulaThe Best Hospitals For Labor And Delivery - Ratings App ‘Irth’ Created By Kimberly Seals AllersThis episode is about finding the best labor and delivery hospitals using community-based tools and reviews. Listen to learn more about how community reviews tools are helping women find better facilities. Think “Yelp for hospitals”.Kimberly Seals Allers is our featured guest. She is the creator of Irth, a non-profit app designed to collect and leverage reviews of birthing hospitals and pediatricians from Black and Brown communities to hold these institutions accountable and facilitate systems change for bias-free experiences. The app facilitates transparency and community empowerment by allowing users to share their experiences, which are turn...2023-12-3050 min
The Lamaze PodcastBirth Without Bias: How the Irth App Is Challenging and Changing Birth ExperiencesIn the third installment of Robin Douthit's "Childbirth Luminaries" series, we delve into the world of maternal and infant health advocacy with award-winning journalist, five-time author, and international speaker, Kimberly Seals Allers.
Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking conversation as we explore the Irth App, a groundbreaking app designed as a "Yelp-like" platform, specifically tailored to Black and Brown
parents, where important reviews within the full perinatal spectrum are used to combat bias and racism within maternity and infant care, creating a more inclusive and just environment for all.
Kimberly is a leading voice...2023-11-061h 01
Maternal Health InnovationHow Irth Empowers Black Birthing PeopleIn this episode, we take a look at the Irth app, a platform designed to empower Black and Brown women during their maternity journey. Host Venus Standard, Assistant Professor at UNC School of Medicine and certified nurse midwife, is joined by Kimberly Seals Allers, the creator of Irth, and Sheridan Blackwell, Head of Systems Change and Partnership at Irth. MHLIC is dedicated to highlighting the innovative approaches organizations and individuals take to make a positive impact in maternal health. Listen to learn how Irth is transforming the maternal health landscape by providing a space f...2023-10-1129 min
Women of Influence by SheSpeaksBirth Without Bias & the Unrealistic Expectations of Motherhood with Kimberly Seals AllersOur guest on this week's episode is Kimberly Seals Allers, an award-winning journalist, five-time author, and advocate for women's health, particularly focused on black maternal health. Kimberly explains the alarming statistic that black women are three to four times more likely to die in hospitals, with a shocking mortality rate 12x higher than white women in New York City. Kimberly is the founder of Irth App, which is a rating-based app striving for transparency and helping black women find the safe hospital care they need and deserve. In this episode we cover:The bias that exists in...2023-08-2340 min
The R.A.C.E. PodcastGiving Voice through Storytelling and Authenticity with Kimberly Seals AllersWelcome to Episode 6 of the 2nd season of The R.A.C.E. Podcast. Today’s episode kicks off our Race, Healing, & Joy Series. During this series, I will engage Reproductive Justice leaders to spotlight KHA's Race, Healing & Joy initiative and share preliminary insights gathered through more than 40 conversations (including interviews, circles of accountability, and an in-person convening).I am honored to welcome Kimberly Seals Allers as our first guest of the series.Meet Kimberly Seals Allers:As an award-winning journalist, author and a nationally re...2023-06-2642 min
Postpartum ProductionS2EP6 - Activism At Home: How Kimberly Seals Allers is Making Equitable Maternal Care Accessible to All“Having something that you keep for yourself can actually be the most revolutionary and important thing that you could do in your postpartum journey.” ~ Kimberly Seals AllersWe are thrilled to share with you this conversation with Kimberly Seals Allers, an award-winning journalist, five-time author, and founder of Irth. A leading voice on the racial and sociocultural complexities of birth, breastfeeding, and motherhood, Kimberly created the Irth app for brown and black parents to address bias and racism in maternity and infant care.Additionally, Kimberly is the host and creator of Birthright, a po...2023-05-3146 min
The Sway EffectThe Sway Effect - Episode 27 with Kimberly Seals Allers, Creator, IRTH AppThis month, after recently connecting with IRTH App’s Kimberly Seals Allers at SXSW, we’re discussing the racial disparities in maternal health care. A timely discussion as Black Maternal Health Week was recognized this month. Kimberly has created an app that aggregates prenatal, birthing, postpartum and pediatric reviews of care from Black and brown parents to combat inequalities in health care. While there are multiple factors that contribute to these disparities – it’s time that we pause and ask ourselves what we can do to stop this.
2023-04-2724 min
Evidence Based Birth®EBB 265 - Evidence on Anti-Racism in Health Care and Birth WorkOn today’s episode we are celebrating the release of Part 3 of our BRAND NEW Signature Article, "The Evidence on: Anti-Racism in Health Care and Birth Work!" EBB Research Editor Ihotu Ali, the lead author on this paper, talks with Rebecca Dekker about how Evidence-Based Equity Tools are solutions that can collectively move Black and Brown voices, leaders, innovative programs, accountability conversations, supportive funding, and legislation from the sidelines to the mainstream. You can find all three parts of our NEW Signature Article, The Evidence on: Anti-Racism in Health Care and Birth Work here: www.evi...2023-04-261h 06
The Woman's DoctorThe Role and Challenges Women Face In our Society with Kimberly Seals AllersToday on The Woman’s Doctor, Kimberly Seals Allers joins us to discuss the unfortunate state of maternal care in America. Kimberly is an award winning journalist and advocate for breastfeeding and infant health. Giving birth opened her eyes to the harsh reality that women face in modern hospitals, even in a developed nation. Most medical institutions are informed by and dominated by men, which has left a detrimental gap in the education available to most women, especially women of color. The average woman does not have a grasp of the female anatomy or the impo...2023-02-0923 min
On Health for WomenOn the Big Letdown: A Radical Conversation on Birth and Breastfeeding with Kimberly Seals AllersContent Warning: In this episode, we will be talking about maternal mortality, infant mortality, and the impact of racism on maternal health.60% of all maternal deaths are fully preventable, and the complications women experience are not inherent to black or brown bodies. Yet Black and Brown women have been blamed for their "bad outcomes" instead of recognizing that these deaths all too often have to do with failures in the obstetric system. In the US today, a Black woman is 12 times more likely to die of childbirth than a white woman, despite socioeconomic factors.Today...2023-01-2550 min
BirthrightFinding Joy for Black Birth Workers: Black Doulas Speak OutOur Guests: Chanel Porchia Albert, Ancient Song Doula Services; Linda Jones, Black Women Birthing Justice; Quatia Osorio, Urban Perinatal Education Center; Dr. Sayida Peprah-Wilson, Frontline DoulasEpisode Description: The truth is, while we wait for the medical system to confront and change its dangerous practices, it’s Black birth workers who are picking up the pieces of the infant and maternal health crisis. Doulas, midwives, and community workers punch the clock day in and day out to ensure we survive and thrive in our birthing experiences, but who’s taking care of them? In this special roun...2022-11-161h 17BirthrightGood Timing/Bad Timing: Finding Joy In & Beyond the Circumstances Our Guest: Deidra WashingtonOther Guests: Mike WashingtonEpisode Description: Having a plan for pregnancy and parenting comes in handy. But what happens when things move differently than expected and you have to make adjustments? Deidra Washington and her husband Mike know all about scrapping plan A and finding the beauty in plan B. In this episode, the Florida-based mother and father of two girls get real with Kimberly about facing fears, ditching tradition, and loving hard for the next generation. Grab your tissues because you might find yourself getting teary-eyed listening to this...2022-10-261h 07Birthright Shifting the Narrative in Black Birth & Beyond: An Interview with Award-Winning Writer and Producer Tonya Lewis LeeEpisode Description: Narratives are powerful. They can influence policy, shift cultural norms, and drive systemic change. What about the narrative in Black maternal health? How do we shift the mainstream narrative in Black birth and breastfeeding away from doom and gloom and negative statistics to centering joy and possibility? What is needed, who is missing and quite frankly, will the powers in Hollywood ever let us own this narrative? In this episode, Kimberly talks with New York Times best-selling author, award-winning writer and producer, Tonya Lewis Lee, whose most recent work, Aftershock, takes a compelling look at the Black...2022-09-1644 minBirthrightFelicia’s Dream Hawaiian Water Birth After An Ectopic PregnancyOur Birthing Person: Felicia BanksOther Guests: Marco Antonio Perez Estrada, Wahinehula KaʻeoEpisode Description: Felicia didn’t know if she’d ever give birth to a baby after an ectopic pregnancy that left her with one fallopian tube — but after years of physical and spiritual healing, she got exactly what she always wanted on the island of Hawaii. Originally from Idaho, Felicia has reclaimed love and peace as a stay-at-home mom and massage therapist who enjoys exploring the outdoors, hiking, and being by the ocean. Join Kimberly for this week’s episode, as she ch...2022-08-0547 min
The Mother Wit PodcastEp. 22 The Making of Nurse Nikki and Bloom Maternal HealthNurse Nikki is a Family Nurse Practitioner, trained doula, and IBCLC. She is the owner and founder of Bloom Maternal Health and is one of my heroes. Her mission is to improve maternal health outcomes and decrease disparities, especially for Black women. She inspires me to think outside the box in ways that are hard for me, and interestingly enough, she also encourages me to think inside the box in ways that challenge me. But seriously, my mentors aside, a couple of which you have met already this season, she is up there on a pedestal with those I...2022-06-131h 05BirthrightBirthright Live! The Restoration EpisodeOur Guests: Roslyn J. Smith, Safiya Rayford, Raena Granberry Therapist: Saleemah McNeil Episode Description: In this first Restoration episode of season 2, reproductive psychotherapist and CEO of Oshun Family Healing, Saleemah McNeil, and host Kimberly Seals Allers gather at SaksWorks Flagship in NYC to provide Black women who’ve experienced medical-related trauma space to heal. The three Black women who joined the conversation virtually include a woman who received racist comments from an OB/GYN. Another who was neglected by her midwife, which resulted in a full-term stillbirth. And a third who had her concerns igno...2022-05-111h 03BirthrightBirthing While Black And HIV-PositiveOur Birthing Person: Teddy Atim, Mary Harper HollyOther Guests: Helen ZimbaEpisode Description: This week, we’re examining the stigma against pregnant and birthing people living with HIV and centering the challenges and realities of healthy, joyful births even with a diagnosis. Host Kimberly Seals Allers follows the journeys of two HIV-positive mothers—Teddy, a mother of three living in rural Uganda, and Mary, a mother of one based in Fort Worth, Texas. Find out how both mamas overcame miseducation and judgment in their communities surrounding their HIV status and gave birth to HIV...2022-04-231h 09
Evidence Based Birth®EBB 220 - Fighting Bias in the Birth Room with Irth® App Founder, Kimberly Seals AllersOn today's podcast, we're going to talk with Irth® App founder, Kimberly Seals Allers, to update us on Irth® App's mission to fight against racism and bias in perinatal and infant care. Kimberly Seals Allers (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker strategist, and an advocate for perinatal and infant health. A former senior editor at Essence, and writer at Fortune Magazine, Kimberly is a leading voice on the racial and socio-cultural complexities of birth, lactation, and parenthood. Kimberly is the founder of Irth®, a new Yelp-like app for Black and Brown parents to address bias and...2022-04-1340 minBirthrightSingle Mother By Choice with a Donor: Leslie’s Birth StoryOur Birthing Person: Leslie FicklingOther Guests: Chanel Stryker-Boykin, Doula; Paul Ryan, CEO of Just A Baby; “Dave,” anonymous donorEpisode Description: Society puts a stigma on Black single mothers, stereotyping and devaluing them. But what happens when you become a single mother by choice and choose sperm donation as your pathway to parenthood? This week’s guest, Leslie, used an app, a cup and a Black male donor she met in person to get the baby she so wanted. In this insightful conversation, Leslie takes host Kimberly Seals Allers on a lesser-told journey of rea...2022-04-081h 17
Spilling ChaiS4 E6: Can An App Save Women From Dying in Childbirth? with Kimberly Seals AllersOne of the most important things to remember about maternal mortality is that it’s a crisis that’s solvable. We already have the tools and expertise to save women’s lives. So why do so many women, especially Black women, die giving birth in the world’s richest democracy? Kimberly Seals Allers, author and founder of the Irth App, speaks to host, Anushay Hossain about using technology to intervene in America’s maternal health crisis and empowering women with life-saving information.This is Season 4 Episode 6: Can An App Save Women From D...2022-04-0625 minBirthrightWhat Is Our Birthright?What is our birthright? This is the question that host, Kimberly Seals Allers, asks every guest at the conclusion of every episode. And the answers have varied from inspirational, tear jerking, compelling and raw. Enjoy this compilation of our team's favorite answers to, What is our birthright? Whatever it is, we're reclaiming it one story at a time. Resources/ReferencesLearn more about having a safe and empowered birth by downloading the free ebook: Birth with Irth: A Mini-Manual to Pregnancy and Childbirth for Black PeopleGet full episode details and transcripts (p...2022-03-3011 minBirthrightFinding Black Birthing Joy in Rural Georgia: Aquarius' StoryOur Birthing Person: Aquarius WatkinsOther Guests: Dr. Joy Baker, M.D., OB/GYNEpisode Description: While rural communities around the country—like LaGrange, Georgia—are battling limited maternity care access, mothers like Aquarius Watkins, are still striving for joyful birth experiences. With the help of a local Black OB/GYN, here’s how Aquarius advocated for herself and manifested her dream birth. Come join host Kimberly Seals Allers as she travels into the community south of Atlanta where mothers and perinatal physicians are working together to center joy and healing. ...2022-03-2337 min
BirthrightInsecure’s Christina Elmore Talks Birthing with Courage, Nursing on Set & How Hollywood is Shifting Black Parenting Norms Our Birthing Person: Christina ElmoreOther Guests: Kimberly Durdin, LM, CPM, IBCLCIn this week’s episode, Christina Elmore, actor (Twenties, HBO’s Insecure) and mother of two, takes us to her second birth for a ride through her expectations, fears, and A-ha moments as she found Black birthing joy in Los Angeles. In a hopeful and hilarious conversation with host Kimberly, along with insightful commentary from her midwife, we also explore how Hollywood (including her role as Condola) is helping rewrite the narrative of Black motherhood. Hosted on A...2022-03-161h 02
BirthrightKayden Coleman’s Birthright: How He Found Black Birth Joy as a Trans FatherOur Birthing Person: Kayden ColemanOther Guests: Nadine Ashby; Queer, Trans Birth Worker & EducatorA powerful season two launches with Kayden’s story, a Black trans father of two daughters who reclaimed his birthright during his second birth. After a series of hurtful experiences during his first birth, Kayden discovered doulas who educated him and empowered him to voice his desires when he gave birth to his second daughter. In the midst of it all–including social media hate from others and poor care from medical professionals, he shares how he ultimately found joy in c...2022-03-0937 min
Feedback with EarBuds: The Podcast Recommendation PodcastFilm History PodcastsWelcome to Feedback with EarBuds, the podcast recommendation podcast. Our newsletter brings you five podcast recommendations each week according to a theme, and curated by a different person. Our podcast is an audio version of the newsletter.Subscribe to the newsletter: eepurl.com/cIcBuHThis week's theme is Film Industry Podcasts. The curator is Dan Delgado, host of the podcast "The Industry."Why did Dan choose this theme? "I have an interest in this topic not just as a movie fan, but also as a podcaster. I've been producing and hosting a podcast about...2022-02-2227 min
BirthfulHow Do You Know if Your Care Provider Is Treating You Fairly?The truth is, you probably won’t know! But Kimberly Seals Allers is working hard to change that. Kimberly talks with Adriana about how she’s leveraging consumer power to shift the patient-provider dynamics, hold hospitals publicly accountable, and bring transparency to our perinatal experiences while centering Black and Brown families.Listen through to the end for Adriana’s “Two Things to Do: One for You, One for the Rest of Us.” Every week, she selects actions, books, and other resources to further inform your intuition and support others on their birth journeys.If you liked this...2022-02-1630 min
Beyond Beautiful BirthEP#03: Bias in the Birthing Space with Kimberly Seals AllersBeyond Beautiful Birth is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts About the EpisodeJoin us as we talk to the incredible Kimberly Seals Allers about American exceptionalism - the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn’t have parental leave?? What’s up with that!? Why are mothers both priceless and valueless in our capitalist world? We discuss the idea that HOW we birth matters - the healthy mother, healthy baby mantra can be a disservice to processing our birth experiences. Kimberly tells us how she discovered through her own...2022-02-1451 min
Midwifery Wisdom PodcastThe Story of a Young DoulaHave you ever met a 15-year-old doula? Today guest host Leila Wyatt, CD, SM, talks with student midwife and doula, Trinity Stephens about her experience coming into birth work. They discuss what a “practice birth” is, experiencing racism as a black birth worker, and how a shoulder dystocia solidified her desire to become a midwife.Show Resources-Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts-The Big Letdown by Kimberly Seals Allers-Having Your Baby by Hilda HutchersonFacebook: Trinity StephensInstagram: @benn...2022-01-1936 min
KinsiderIrth CEO Kimberly Seals Allers on Improving Outcomes for Black and Brown MothersMeet Kimberly Seals Allers, a journalist turned entrepreneur whose goal is to provide better birthing outcomes for black and brown women. As the Founder of Irth (“Birth” without the ‘b’ for bias), Kimberly has channeled her own delivery experience into a community site that enables new moms and doulas to provide candid reviews of their care providers and hospitals. As she tells Kindred Media’s Laura Clinton, Irth’s thoughtfully solicited feedback can be an important resource for addressing unconscious bias in maternal health care.To hear more from Kimberly, check out her Birthright podcast (www.BirthrightPodcast.com) and fol...2022-01-0432 min
TradeoffsThe Best Health Care Podcasts of 2021We look back on some of the best health policy podcast episodes of the year with help from a few of our podcast host friends.Guests:Dr. Bapu Jean, host, Freakonomics, MDKimberly Seals-Allers, host, BirthrightMaiken Scott, host, The Pulse, WHYYDr. Celine Gounder, host, American Diagnosis and EpidemicFor a complete transcript and more recommendations.Support this type of journalism today, with a year-end tax deductible gift (plus your gift will be matched!).Sign up for our...2021-12-0923 min
Leading with HealthKimberly Seals Allers on Leveraging Consumer Forces to Remove Bias in Maternal Infant CareKimberly Seals Allers converts community reviews by Black and brown pregnant women and birthing people into data to improve hospital care. Full show notes here: https://michellemarketingstrategies.com/kimberly-seals-allers-on-leveraging-consumer-forces-to-remove-bias-in-maternal-infant-care/ Need help growing a business or organization in the healthcare sector? Reach out to me at jennifer@michellemarketingstrategies.com, tweet me @MMSJennifer or find me on Instagram @LeadingwithHealth. And be sure to stop by my site and download my report, Great to Hear Your Voice!2021-12-0728 min
Leading with HealthKimberly Seals Allers on Leveraging Consumer Forces to Remove Bias in Maternal Infant CareKimberly Seals Allers converts community reviews by Black and brown pregnant women and birthing people into data to improve hospital care. Full show notes here: https://michellemarketingstrategies.com/kimberly-seals-allers-on-leveraging-consumer-forces-to-remove-bias-in-maternal-infant-care/ Need help growing a business or organization in the healthcare sector? Reach out to me at jennifer@michellemarketingstrategies.com, tweet me @MMSJennifer or find me on Instagram @LeadingwithHealth. And be sure to stop by my site and download my report, Great to Hear Your Voice!2021-12-0728 min
Untaming46. Kimberly Seals Allers: The Big Let Down(Interview starts at 2.28)
Welcome back to the Untaming Podcast! It is currently the Full Waking Moon Moon here in the Southern Hemisphere. Each episode of this third season will be released on the New and Full Moons. A 10 Questions in 10 Minutes episode will be released to coincide with the First & Last Quarter Moons.
Kimberly Seals Allers is an award-winning journalist, author of five books and a nationally recognized media commentator, consultant and advocate for women and infant health. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate and HuffPost, Kimberly was named one...2021-10-2056 min
Delivering Health80. Combatting Racism in Birth and Breastfeeding with Kimberly Seals AllersGiving birth is the most vulnerable time in a woman's and baby’s lives. Women want to feel safe and in control of their birthing experience, but too many women don’t, especially black and brown women. Kimberly Seals Allers has done something to change that. She’s the founder of the Irth app, and what she’s doing for families is nothing short of incredible Resources talked about in this episode: Guest podcast - Birthright Guest app - Irth app Guest website - Kimberly Seals Allers Guest social media - IG/Facebook: @iamksealsallers, @theirthapp Twitter: @iamkseal...2021-10-0834 min
The Good Health CafeEpisode 36: Demystifying the doulaIf you’re a regular listener you know that we have had the term doula come up in at least two prior episodes, episode 21 with midwife Shani Robertson and episode 23 with Kimberly Seals Allers. On today’s episode we had a doula visit The Good Health Cafe, Ms. Tamara Mason, to tell us all about what doulas are, what they do and why they are such a valuable part of a birth team. Grab your warm drink and tune in for a great episode!About Tamara MasonTamara Mason, MPH...2021-09-0239 min
The boobingit podcastBlack Breastfeeding Week Special with Kimberly Seals AllersKimberly Seals Allers, the co-founder of Black Breastfeeding Week, is my guest on the podcast this week. Kimberly lives in New York, is a world-renowned speaker, five-time author and host of the Birthright Podcast. Most recently, Kimberly added tech founder to her impressive repertoire having set up the Irth app to address racism and bias in maternity and infant care.
Kimberly is on a mission to transform the experience of motherhood for all and to eradicate the racial disparities in birth and breastfeeding. Needless to say, I am a huge fan of the work Kimberly does and...2021-08-2626 min
Spilled Milk Podcast"Reclaiming My Resources" Black Breastfeeding Week 2021It's the 9th year of Black Breastfeeding Week. Black Breastfeeding Week aims to end the gaping racial disparity in breastfeeding rates while also encouraging diversity in the lactation field. Kimberly Seals Allers, co-founder of Black Breastfeeding Week, said “We must end the dangerous conversation of breastfeeding as a 'choice' without a deeper discussion as to how Black women's choices are shaped by their circumstances.”On This episode Kendra share why Black Breastfeeding Week is important to her. 2021-08-2606 min
Comeback with Erica CobbKimberly Seals Allers: Founder of Irth AppAward-winning journalist and expert in Black maternal health, Kimberly Allers Seals, joins Comeback to talk Irth App, like the word birth, but the “b” is dropped for bias. Irth is a Yelp-like review and rating platform for Black and brown women and birthing people to find and leave reviews of their OBGYNs, birthing hospitals, and pediatricians. This is the kick off of Black Breastfeeding week, to learn more about this amazing initiative Kimberly launched, go to: blackbreastfeedingweek.org2021-08-2236 min
Food Sleuth RadioKimberly Seals Allers, journalist, author and advocate for equity in maternal and infant health.Did you know that August is Breastfeeding Awareness Month and August 25th-31st is Black Breastfeeding Week? https://www.facebook.com/BlackBreastfeedingWeek/Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Kimberly Seals Allers, journalist, author and advocate for equity in maternal and infant health. Seals Allers discusses the economics, politics and culture of breastfeeding in America and the specific challenges faced by women of color. Seals Allers has developed an app to help women of color find maternal health care free of bias. https://irthapp.com/ Related website: www.kimberlysealsallers.com 2021-08-2028 min
Women's Health, Wisdom, and. . . WINE!#10 - Black Breastfeeding Week: Why Do WE Need One? | Charnise LittlesSend us a textThe Women's Health, Wisdom, and... WINE! podcast is a biweekly conversation with practitioners, providers, patients & healers about complex reproductive medicine & women's health challenges, the value of an integrative approach to these challenges, many of the women's health topics you're already thinking about & uncomfortable talking about & my personal favorite... WINE!August 25th – 31st is Black Breastfeeding Week and we want to thank Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka, Kiddada Green, and Kimberly Seals Allers for pioneering such an empowering week of education, advocacy, and celebration. Passionate about changing the narrative ar...2021-08-181h 28