Maternal Health Episodes
Black Maternal Health Week: Support Her!
Black Maternal Health Week: Aptril 11-17, 2026
Large Fibroids and You Want to Get Pregnant
In this episode of Black Women's Health Podcast, Dr. Rahman discusses both the challenges of large fibroids when contemplating pregnancy and the challenges of large fibroids during pregnancy.
Pregnant with Fibroids and Scared
In this episode of Black Women's Health, Dr. Rahman talks about the presence of uterine fibroids while pregnant. Pregnant with Fibroids and Scared taps into the exact fear, isolation and uncertainty pregnant women actually fe...
Home Birth? Know this first.
In this episode of Black Women's Health Podcast, Dr. Rahman discusses the small but increasing interest in home births. For Black Women this is often a choice made to avoid the inherent racism encountered within our healthcar...
Dr Cheryl Law: Defying the Odds
A Physician. A Wife. A Mother. A Stage 4 Cancer Patient. Here's to "shining the light" on this incredible person. This is one of my favorite interviews.
Black Maternal Mortality : What McKinsey Missed
Reducing Black maternal mortality isn't just a moral imperative - it improves health outcomes for all women and strengthens the economy. McKinsey's new report lays out a five-point strategy, but is it enough? In this episode,...
Rihanna: Pregnancy spacing. .How close is too close?
Rihanna's back-to-back pregnancies have sparked conversations about pregnancy spacing - how close is too close between births? In this episode, we break down what research says about short pregnancy intervals, the risks for m...
Want a Healthy Baby ? Start here.
Black Maternal Health Week 2025 just ended. In this episode, Dr. Rahman shares practical, evidence informed steps that can help improve pregnancy outcomes for Black women.What we cover:- Why a first trimester ultrasound matte...
Hope, Health and Hard Truths: Dr. Cheryl Law Talks Breast Cancer, Adventure Jar and Black Women
When words fail, stories can still heal. In this powerful episode, Dr. Cheryl Law joins Dr. Rahman to share her deeply personal experience with metastatic breast cancer - and how she found her voice through support from famil...
How to Navigate Menopause
Menopause: What does it mean? Why is it so difficult? Where can I get answers? Learn and get answers to your questions. Join us in a FREE online Menopause course staring 2/1/2025
Dismissed and in Pain: A Young Black Woman's Journey Through Endometriosis"
What happens when your pain is ignored, your symptoms dismissed, and you're left to navigate a debilitating condition on your own? In this episode, we dive into the powerful story of a young Black woman whose battle with endo...
Is Menopause a Hoax?
Is Menopause a hoax? Is it a "disease" created and designed for midlife women requiring medications (s) to successfully manage? If you believe this, stop here. This podcast is not for you. In this podcast, Ms. Charlie Jordan ...
How to Use Your Menstrual Flow
We examine and use for diagnosis/monitoring our: Blood Saliva Stool Urine Why don't we examine and use for diagnosis/monitoring a woman's menstrual flow? Our guest, Dr. Naseri , has researched this question. Listen as she di...
Low Libido? - not her.
There are mulitple menopause symptoms. Low libido and can be one. There are options.
A Smart Bra for Your Heart
Cardiovascular disease in the #1 killer. Most breast cancer patients die of cardiovascular disease. There is limited research re: women and heart disease. Kudos to Alicia Chong Rodriguez , founder and CEO of Bloomer Tech , a ...
Are you bleeding too much?
How do you tell? What if it is always like that? Learn the two tests that you need to get.
Don't Get It Twisted
There is a time to bleed. And there comes a time when all bleeding should stop. Postmenopausal bleeding is not normal.
Menstrual/ Menopause Workplace Policy
You work hard.. but then there's that time of the month. You work hard.. but you can't admit to your follow colleagues that you're having perimenopausal symptoms. Imagine if your employer had a workplace policy to accommodate...
Don't be a Guinea Pig
There has been a change. Previously pregnant women and women of childbearing age were excluded from clinical research trials. Today women of all ages and persons of color are being recruited for clinical research studies. One...
Dr. Farrington: How to ACTT with your MD, Part 2
Dr. Leslie Farrington is the co-founder and executive director of Black Coalition for Safe Motherhood . In Part I, she tells her story of being Black but looking White and how she has experienced racism. In this interview she...
Dr. Leslie Farrington - Born Black, Looking White
Dr. Leslie Farrington is an accomplished OBGYN. She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Black Coalition for Safe Motherhood, Inc . She has dedicated her life's work maternal health racial disparities and promoting pat...
Back to Basics - What's Inside?
Recent reports and surveys show that women of all ages say they don't have a good understanding of her reproductive anatomy and function. There are questions. Questions about menarche. Questions about periods. Questions about...
What's in your Prenatal Vitamins?
A recent study, Commercially Available Prenatal Vitamins Do Not Meet American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Nutritional Guidelines sampled non prescription prenatal vitamins. None of the sampled prenatal vitamins...
Testing Pregnant Women
Should pregnant and lactating women be participant in clinical drug trials? The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine have published a Consensus Study Report to address how those involved in such clinical dr...
