Healthy Mothers, Babies, Communities - MBRC
Let’s save our Mothers and BABIES! Missouri Bootheel Regional Consortium (MBRC) provides a place for supportive information and education on topics to support healthy mothers, healthy babies and a healthy community. Host Valda Ford is a Registered Nurse and Public Health expert who knows that knowledge is power. Valda will interview guests ranging from local, state and national experts to individuals with powerful stories that address the disparities in infant and maternal mortality. They will discuss the joys, pains, triumphs and tragedies of motherhood, childbirth and how to get the community involved in health for all. You will hear of ways to be your best self no matter where you are in the journey and you will learn when to reach out for help and to be your own best advocate!
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Monday Jul 22, 2024
Monday Jul 22, 2024
Valda and Mishawne discuss all of the services provided at Children and Families First Nurse Family Partnership. Learn everything you need to know about planning a pregnancy by being your healthiest self to information about nurse intervention models that increase healthy family structures and learn of resources available across the country.
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Shawonda Johnson speaks of her motherhood journey. Her pregnancies were not easy. She learned how to pay attention to her body AND tell her providers what she needed even when she had to repeat herself or move on to another provider. As Shawonda speaks with Valda Ford, RN, they discuss some ways to know when you need help, how to ask for help and how to be an advocate for all mothers-to-be and birthing people. The message is clear - know your body, know yourself and know your strength. Educate yourself and get what you need. Educate others and lift up the community.
Friday Jul 21, 2023
Friday Jul 21, 2023
Jenn Haston speaks with Valda Ford, RN about her experiences trying to get pregnant and trying to sustain her pregnancy multiple times. She also tells of the stress of worrying, each time, if that pregnancy would go to term. Listen in as this mother and a nurse who specializes in mother-baby concerns discuss pregnancy, dealing with well-meaning people who can be so mean, and, how to pull yourself up from and through postpartum depression. Her novel and low cost solutions may help YOU! There is so much for new mothers and new families to learn as we listen to Jenn's story and her solutions.
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Carolyn Davis is a real success story. She shares her journey of moving from a community volunteer to the person leading the volunteers to being a case manager supervisor. She is loved by the many people she has helped to see themselves and their potential. She shares a couple success stories of the people who have come to Healthy Start to grow and to thrive.
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Patricia McBride is a tireless advocate of surviving COVID 10. She talks about what is needed to stay safe even when people think that COVID is history. She talks about the importance of community involvement and having people OF the community working to help the community.
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Dr. Sandra Jackson is a mental health provider and a passionate advocate for women. She speaks candidly about the notion of "first love yourself" and the "quiet secrets" and challenges of mental health in the Bootheel and in America. She speaks with Valda Ford RN about the myths and misunderstandings of recognizing and seeking help when we are beyond our own capabilities. Just like seeking a doctor when you have diabetes it should be normalized to seek care when you have a mental health concern.
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
If you are a mother, know a mother or want to be a mother you will have WORRY as a big part of life. Imagine that you could learn how to put your worries in a place so you are not overwhelmed, that you can cope with the stressors. of pregnancy or motherhood? Want to know more, listen to Denise Marek tell us how.
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Why do mothers and babies in the USA die at higher rates than all other industrialized nations? Why do Black mothers and babies die at two to four times as much as their white counterparts? What is WEATHERING and how does that affect outcomes for mothers and babies? What is the radicalized experience in the USA - in health? What can we do to change this travesty? Listen as Dr. Irie tells about her personal and professional experiences with motherhood. Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSTrCxepIRs
Healthy Mothers, Babies , Communities - MBRC
Our mothers and babies are dying!
What can we do to change that? Listen to this interview and conversation-style podcast featuring local, state and national experts on the health of mothers and babies.
We will talk to professionals and to individuals who care about having healthier babies and healthier mothers. We will share stories of birthing people and their families.
We want to change the terrible statistics that show that babies and mothers in the USA are more likely to die at birth or before the first year than most industrialized nations!!!!!
What is causing this issue? Some will say that the lack of a universal health care model is to blame. Certainly some women are hesitate to come for prenatal or preconception care because of the financial costs. Some will say that it is a lack of access to care because of geography. Others will say that it is because of structural racism. And , there are some, who will lay all of the blame at the feet of the mothers.
Maternal and infant mortality can be caused by any one, none or all of the above. Most frightening and discouraging is the fact that so many people are unaware that there IS A PROBLEM! If you don't know a problem exists you cannot fix it.
Join me as we seek the answers and pose some solutions. I welcome your feedback and your questions. Have a topic of interest that you want to have discussed here - just reach out towww.mbrcinc.org or contact me directly at valdabford@gmail.com .