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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Working Mom Tip: Eat Healthy

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Healthy Food
As working moms, despite our limited time, we strive to do a good job at work and at home is high. We recognize that we can’t do a good job unless we are healthy. And we also understand that we have failed our children if they are not healthy.



So, we strive to make healthy choices. That said, “healthy” can be a moving target. We accept certain truths to be self-evident.
Organic fruit and vegetables are good. Red food coloring is really bad and should be banned throughout the world! Drinking water is good. Drinking juice is completely unnecessary and should be treated like alcoholic beverages for children—they get it on special occasions only. It is not a staple!


(Don’t worry, if you’re a working mom who believes that every night is a special occasion and deserves to be recognized with red wine I won’t judge you. Just be sure to tweet a photo of your glass to me here so we can celebrate our ever so special Tuesday night together!!! J)

We are kept up at night by questions like, “Is whole milk better than skim milk?” “Should our babies eat solid food before six months?”  And, “what is quinoa and how the hell do you pronounce it?”
Strawberries
Apparently, there is disagreement between what Americans believe is healthy and what nutritionists believe is healthy. Our friends at The New York Times did a story on it, called “Is Sushi Health? What About Granola? Where Americans and Nutritionists Disagree.”

Bonus:  You may want to pay close attention to the Times article because another writer has indicated that carrying around extra pounds can tank your career! For that article, click here. Quote from the article, “[i]n 2004,  the journal Health Economics reported that obesity could lower a woman's annual earnings by as much as 6.2% and a man's by as much as 2.3%”  

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