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How to Have a Healthy Relationship With Breastfeeding

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From social media to medical advice, there seem to be contradictions everywhere when it comes to breastfeeding, and yet support is hidden under rocks and behind privilege. Women are struggling right now with what to do and how to do it – what is our first step to regaining a healthy relationship with breastfeeding?
Kimberly Seals Allers
Kimberly Seals Allers

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Kimberly Seals Allers is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker, strategist, and advocate for maternal & infant health. A former senior editor at ESSENCE and writer at FORTUNE magazine, Kimberly is a leading voice on the racial and socio-cultural complexities of birth, breastfeeding, and motherhood. She is the founder of Irth, a new "Yelp-like" app for Black and brown parents to address bias and racism in maternity and infant care. Kimberly also created Birthright, a podcast about joy and healing in Black birth that centers positive Black birth stories as a tool in the fight for birth justice and reverses the narrative of negative statistics common in mainstream media coverage of Black maternal health.
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Resources for the Black Birth Experience

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