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Teyana Taylor Remembers The Night She Got Pregnant: “It Was Going Down, I Felt It”

The singer confessed that it was less finding out she was pregnant and more confirming what she already knew to be true following a wild night of New Year’s Eve

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Two MISD Graduates Receive $10,000 from Texas Trust Credit Union | Dallas Weekly

Texas Trust Credit Union awarded $10,000 scholarships to graduating seniors Aaron Wu (Legacy HS) and Folajaye Seinde-Olaniyi (Lake Ridge HS) of the Mansfield Independent School District.

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'Tembisa 10': Govt to sue Piet Rampedi, Independent Media | News24

The planned legal action comes after medical authorities established that Gosiame Sithole, who reportedly gave birth to decuplets, was never pregnant.

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Teyana Taylor Says Erykah Badu Will Deliver Her Second Baby

After giving birth at home with baby Junie, Teyana Taylor shares that going to the hospital scares her.

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Joburg woman loses unborn baby while fighting coronavirus | News24

A pregnant Midrand woman has lost her unborn baby after battling Covid-19 for more than two weeks.

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Covid-19: Japan government donates over $100k to the Red Cross to battle impact of virus | News24

The Japanese government has donated $109 572 (R1 569 849) to the Red Cross to alleviate the devastating impact of Covid-19 in South Africa.

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Watch: Security officer delivers homeless woman's healthy baby

Bradley Govender, a local security officer, went beyond the call of duty to assist a woman who had gone into labour on the streets of Durban.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Union urges swift action to support BAME pregnant women - Voice Online

THE ROYAL College of Midwives (RCM) is calling for swift implementation of an action plan... The post Union urges swift action to support BAME pregnant women appeared first on Voice Online.

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Woman Gives Birth to Nine Babies: "God Gave Us These Children" | BlackDoctor.org - Where Wellness & Culture Connect

Giving birth is a miraculous feat in itself. The toll it takes on a woman's body and the sheer joy of this new life being brought into the world is priceless. Now, imagine a woman doing that nine times in a row-in one setting! You don't have to imagine it, because Halima Cissé just gave […]

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Cameroon: Yaounde Central Hospital - All About the Departed Quadruplets

Authorities at the hospital say it was not the lack of incubators that caused the babies to die but the intensive medical attention they needed, could not be provided by the

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Source: allAfrica.com

COVID-19 leaves maternal healthcare in a coma

THE global COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on the delivery of sexual reproductive health services and has rolled back several years of progress in improving maternal health. BY PHYLLIS MBANJE Zimbabwe is still among countries with high maternal mortality rate and research has proved

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

'Tembisa 10' for real? Let's have a look at confirmed record births rather

Let's not count our babies before we've seen them...So while we are waiting for final confirmation of the 'Tembisa 10', here's a history of the world's confirmed record-breaking births.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Let's Fight for Black Moms

Black women are 3-4 times more likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth than white

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

Liberia: Is Ex-CBL Governor Milton Weeks the Sacrificial Lamb in the 'Missing Billions' Saga?

Monrovia — When Charles Sirleaf, the eldest son of former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was arrested along with five others, including former Governor J. Milton Weeks, last February, it marked a turning point in the controversy surrounding the alleged disappearance LD16 billion ($100 million (€88

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Perinatal Depression: What It Is And How To Treat It

Worldwide, approximately 10 percent of pregnant women experience some sort of mental disorder, depression being the most common one. Thirteen percent of women experience such conditions after giving birth.

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John Legend & Chrissy Teigen Mourn Loss Of Unborn Child

Teigen had previously been hospitalized from blood loss in late September. On Wednesday (September 30), she and Legend revealed their loss. "We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before."

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South Sudan: Reducing Preventable Maternal and Child Deaths in Lakes State of South Sudan

On a cold Tuesday night, at about 12:00 am, in Malek village, Ms Rebecca Akeer, 26 years old gave birth to a bouncing baby boy in her house in the absence of a skilled birth attendant in February

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Source: allAfrica.com

African-American Musical Pioneers

Musician Scott Joplin is known as the King of Ragtime. Joplin perfected the musical artform and published songs such as The Maple Leaf Rag, The Entertainerand Please Say You Will. He also composed operas such as Guest of Honor and Treemonisha. Considered one of the greatest composers of the early

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Source: ThoughtCo

Haimy Assefa Believes It’s Time For Black Mothers To Truly Be Seen And Heard

The Ethiopian American filmmaker’s documentary “Black Birth” showcases the joys and challenges of new Black mothers.

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Maternal Mortality and Black Women amplified during the pandemic | The Atlanta Voice

More than 73,000 Black lives were lost during the pandemic, making up 15% of all COVID-related deaths, the highest of any race, according to The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project.

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Our Health Our Community: Why Black Women Can’t Breathe •

Systemic racism is a public health crisis that tears at our nation’s fabric, limiting white America’s ability to see black men as something other than

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Kenya Advised to End Reliance on Schools for Blood Donations

The Global Blood Fund, which has been assisting Kenya in blood donation initiatives, wants the country to seek ways of ending dependency on learning

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Source: allAfrica.com

Mozambique: In Mozambique, an Obstetric Fistula Survivor's Journey From 'I Was Nothing' to 'I Am Capable of Everything'

[UNFPA] Mocuba -- Beatriz Sebastião suffered in silence. She had no friends in the neighborhood or at school. When she went to church, she sat alone. When she went to the river, other women mocked her before leaving to bathe elsewhere.

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Black Mothers Matter: Why Disparities In Health Care Are Causing Too Many Preventable Deaths - Blavity

Black mothers are dying at disproportionate rates as compared to White women in the U.S. due to receiving less quality care caused by implicit and structural biases deep rooted in healthcare.

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Quadruplets die in government-run hospital

YAOUNDE, Cameroon — When 21-year-old Anne Christelle Ntsama gave birth to quadruplets, she was over the moon. She believed her...

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Africa: Guilty or Not Guilty? How PSN Africa Is Addressing the Realities of Postpartum Depression in Lagos State

[Nigeria Health Watch] In May 2020, criticisms against a 22-year-old mother, Olufunmilola Adisa, accused of killing her baby in Lagos State flooded the internet. Reports alleged that she wrote a letter describing how she did it.

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2021 Tokyo Olympics - Suspended track star Sha'Carri Richardson gets support from Patrick Mahomes, Damian Lillard, other athletes news -The Black Chronicle

9:41 PM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson, the gold-medal hopeful in the 100-meter race at the Tokyo Olympics, was suspended by the United States Anti-Doping Association for

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'I Knew Instinctively That They Would Hurt My Baby': Tatyana Ali Shares Disturbing Details of Birth of First Child, Advocates for Black Maternal Health

Actress Tatyana Ali recently opened up about the traumatic birth of her first child, in the hopes that other expectant Black mothers do not experience […]

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Byo police recover dumped, mutilated foetus

BY PATRICIA SIBANDA POLICE in Bulawayo are investigating a case of a mutilated newborn baby that was dumped at a house in Barbourfields last week. Provincial ppokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube yesterday said Barbourfields police received information on July 27 that a woman had discovered

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