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Podcast: Good Moms Bad Choices
Episode: Wet Nurse, Black Birth Feat. The Black Midwife
Description: Happy Black Breastfeeding Week! On tonight's episode Good Moms are joined by Midwife, Racha Tahini Lawler CPM, CM, LM. Racha discusses her experience and 17 year journey navigating the midwifery world as a black woman. Formerly working in hospitals and also as a Midwife, Racha has seen and experienced the racism bestowed upon pregnant WOC in the healthcare system and breaks down the dark history of the wet nurse in slavery. Good Moms and Racha also discuss cellular and sexual trauma and how it can influence a woman's fear of breastfeeding. Community plays its part in the lack of support for...