Celebrating Black Maternal Health Week #BMHW25

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Mom and three kids Greetings from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! Things have been busy. I am still a working mom of three, working full time who is trying to make a difference. I do a lot of things and try to be present so that I can learn from them. I share them on this blog so that we can learn together. Below are some thoughts, hacks, and/or lessons that I have learned from navigating my world. Black Maternal Health Week April 11-17, 2025 I am a Black mom to three wonderful children. I was blessed to have three successful births. While I am an attorney, my third delivery highlighted the potential risks that occur when a physician fails to listen to the birthing person. Initially, I chalked it up to the physician involved and limited it to my personal birthing experience. Then, I learned that I was not special. Overwhelmingly, Black women experience higher rates of birth trauma, birthing complications and negative birth outcomes.  These statistics are what lead to the creation of ...
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Guest Post: Request for Assistance

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Below is a request from a PhD student who planning to complete her dissertation on the topic of African-American Mom Blogs. As a reader of this blog, she would love your feedback. Below is more information:

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Calling all readers of African-American mom blogs!

Hi, I'm author, doctoral candidate, and editor Shonell Bacon, and I am conducting a study on the blogging practices of African-American mom bloggers.

I invite you to participate in my study by taking a survey geared toward readers of these blogs.

To understand the blogging practices of African-American mom bloggers, it is important to explore the readers of these blogs. Your participation in the survey will enable me to do that.

The online survey consists of 23 questions. It will take no longer than 30 minutes to complete.

Names and e-mail addresses will not be used in this research.

If you are interested in participating, please click the following link that will take you to the survey at SurveyMonkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mommyblogreaders. Once you arrive at the link, you will read a short introduction before clicking “Next” to begin the survey.

Again, if you are interested in participating, please click the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mommyblogreaders.


If you have any questions, you can contact Shonell at shon.bacon@ttu.edu.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Shonell Bacon, Doctoral Candidate, shon.bacon@ttu.edu

Dr. Craig Baehr, Associate Professor, craig.baehr@ttu.edu
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Shonell Bacon said…
Thank you for posting this!
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