For many new mothers, the earliest weeks of parenthood bring something no one in the delivery room ever mentions: sudden, disturbing mental images involving their baby being harmed. Sometimes those images involve the mother herself.
The thoughts are so unsettling, so completely at odds with the fierce love a mother feels, that most women carry…
Black maternal health in the United States remains a deeply serious issue. According to the CDC, Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy related causes than white women. Data from California further revealed that even the wealthiest Black mothers and their babies are twice as likely to die as their wealthiest…
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Alyssa Rios assumed she had avoided one of the more dreaded postpartum experiences. Months passed after the birth of her second child with no alarming changes to her hair. No clumps in the shower drain, no thinning at the hairline and no noticeable shedding when she ran her fingers through it. Then,…

