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On a recent trip to The Burgh, my bag reflected my mission: “Protect Black People” ✊🏾💪🏾

@theirthapp is how I’m fulfilling that goal. We’re seeking reviews from Black and brown folks who’ve given birth at a hospital in Pittsburgh in the last two years. We want hear from birthing people, their birth partners, doulas, nurses, and anyone who can speak to the way these hospitals are treating Black and brown patients during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

We’re on a mission to improve maternal care for Black people in this beautiful city. 🏥🌆

Download Irth today, leave a review and help us put pressure on hospitals to provide better care!

Assemble your Pittsburgh birthing and birthworker friends and family by tagging them in the comments! 📢

#birthwithoutbias #birthwithirth #pittsburgh #theburgh #alleghenyhealthnetwork #blackbirthmatters #birthingwhileblack #blackbirthworkers #blackbabiesmatter #birthsupport #birthjustice

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This is what sisterhood looks like.
This is what real Queens do!

Back story: The amazing @rachelenicks founder of @birthqueenorg had access to the mega-influential @concordiasummit

These are money makers, movers and shakers who pay big money to be in an exclusive network (club)— you know, exactly the kind of groups that Black people and women have historically been excluded from.

But when Rachel had an opportunity to speak at Concordia and host a private round table discussion she invited me to the table and even gave @theirthapp a shout out from her amazing main stage presentation (Video link in my stories).

Boss moves!

Queens make room at the table for others. Thank you Rachel for wearing your crown well!

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After Concordia, I headed over to the @solvemit soirée for Solver team winners to meet some of the kick-ass social impact entrepreneurs who will be in this MIT Solve cohort with me. Can’t wait!!!

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Reposting this vital CDC info from @theirthapp and urging Pittsburgh folks to share widely. Let’s get reviews for hospitals like Magee Women’s, Jefferson, and more birthing hospitals in the Pittsburgh area! 🗣✨

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HEY PITTSBURGH 📢🗣

If you’re pregnant, or have both in/around the Pittsburgh area in the last two years — we want to hear from you!

Much like other cities in the U.S., Black birthing people in Pittsburgh are facing devastating odds when it comes to surviving birth without trauma. Irth is hoping to help be part of the solution to these numbers.

If you’ve received perinatal care at any of the birthing hospitals in Pittsburgh—like, Magee Women’s, St. Clair, and/or any place in the Allegheny Network— please download Irth and leave a review of your experience! We want the whole range of Black and brown maternal care experiences. The good, the bad, and everything in between. Your stories have power.

This is how we hold institutions accountable for how they give care. This is how we keep our communities informed and therefore safer. This is how we create a better birthing future.

Download at the link in our bio! 📳

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Sharing news! 📣📣📣
And a back story about why this book deal hits differently.

The first time I moved to London it was in 1998. I was the Wall Street reporter for The New York Post and offered an opportunity to work at a sister paper, The Times in London. I could not say yes fast enough, packed up my Park Slope apartment, and headed across the pond.

I lived by St. Katherine’s docks, took nightly walks under Tower Bridge and along the Thames and met the man who became my husband (now wasband) and father of my two children.

The next time I returned to London to live, I was a new mom breastfeeding a 10-month old on a mission to put together the broken pieces of our relationship and forge a family. (Spoiler alert: that never works!) We owned a home in North London, took Kayla to the playgroup in Stoke Newington, we joined Tumble Tots, watched the Tweenies, I learned how to drive stick shift (yes with my left hand on left side of the road), lived by the A to Z (pronounced Zed), and drank a lot of tea.

Since that time London has been my second home. It is certainly so for my children, who wear their UK citizenship with pride. After my divorce, they were so young when they started flying to London as unaccompanied minors every summer to see their Dad.

I loved the city, but grew to hate London because it took my children twice a year.

It destroyed my vision of what summers with my children would be like.

I lost a fight for child support in the UK

Years later, I gave up my custodial rights so my children could live with their father for one year

So much of my motherhood journey is connected to this country in many ways.

Now I am leading with love. I am honored to write this book for @pinterandmartin which will be dedicated to my fav UK citizens, Kayla and Michael.

It is also for my dear nieces,
@travelwithdeni_
@connectwithchloe
@nyny_x
@missjen1991
who I love immensely. I am their Forever Auntie beyond legal marriage contracts. I hope they will use this book on their motherhood journey.

And I look forward to being a vessel for Black birthworkers in the UK. This book is yours— I am just a tool for an overdue conversation on race & to amplify your work. ❤️

Birthright is generously funded by the
California Health Care Foundation.

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