Celebrating Black Maternal Health Week #BMHW25

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 ...

A Peek Into the Life of a Blogger Mom: Sunday night


Sunday night always comes too soon. I may be destined to be a haggard mom on Monday morning. It doesn’t matter if I wake up late, early or on time. It always seems like I woke up one minute and the next minute its midnight. I used to think that it was because I procrastinate. However, I realize it doesn’t matter. Today, I was fairly efficient. I managed to make my house orderly even if it is still not spotless. 

No offense to my neat sister, but spotless homes may be overrated. Perhaps, the more mess you have the more fun you have?  Anyway, I wouldn’t know. I’ve only had a spotless house for about 5 minutes.  There was this one time when everyone was asleep and we weren’t moving or breathing hard and our home was spotless.  Then, we woke up! J

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Comments

Tia said…
I loved this, lol! Especially the part when you said "When we're asleep and no one's breathing too hard", LOL! It's so hard to keep things nice and tidy all the time!
Jenna said…
I am the same way on Sundays! lol found your blog on www.shesconnected! My blog www.jugglingmama.com is down right now so I was out visiting other blogs! So glad I came across yours!