Stephanie Spencer from Urban Baby Beginnings. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM)
About 700 women die from pregnancy-related complications each year according to the Centers for Disease Control. In Virginia, Black women are three times more likely to die during pregnancy than white women. Health experts and lawmakers are working to address the persistent racial disparities regarding maternal health.
As part of those efforts, the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts established a maternal health task force, seeking the help of health specialists from Urban Baby Beginnings and Birth in Color RVA to find solutions.
Recently, the task force launched a program that offers free prenatal and postnatal care to the commonwealth’s most vulnerable by connecting people with community doulas.
As a midwife in South Florida with a practice that is 85-90% Black, it was difficult to know what to say to my clients in the wake of the murder of MaâKhia Bryant. With International Day of the Midwife on May 5, we are reminded once again that state violence is a big factor in why Black midwives are necessary.
According to HuffPost, in a White House roundtable during Black Maternal Health Week in April, Vice President Kamala Harris linked the same racial inequities that lead to police killing Black people to how Black women suffer higher rates of death in pregnancy, and childbirth.
Andrew added the same photos on his Instagram, writing, Ava is going to be a big sister!! Our baby joins us this summer, we can’t wait to meet this new little person!@amberonistevenswest.
Amber and Andrew married in 2014. In an 2018 interview with ET, Amber said she was waiting to name her first child until she was born. We have some ideas. My mom suggested a beautiful name that is kind of our frontrunner, but we ve got a lot of options, she said. We ve narrowed it down to a few.
Of course, the little one s name ended up being Ava but it seems fans may have to wait to find out the name the couple chooses for baby No. 2.
Amber Stevens West Is Pregnant; Expecting Baby #2 With Husband Andrew J. West Amber Stevens West and her husband, Andrew J. West, announced some pretty exciting news today - they re pregnant with their second child! The two actors, who…
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