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4.1

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574 reviews

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NATAL passes the mic to Black families to hear all about their journey to parenthood in their own words. Our second season follows four parents in rural Mississippi, Iowa and Hawaii as they birth new lives and legacies exactly where they are. Interwoven by narrative interludes, this 10-part story album features the birthworkers, medical professionals and advocates caring for Black rural families at every stage of pregnancy and beyond.

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Chapter One: Getting It Right

2022/02/10

Eight months pregnant during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shayla and Erick Brown return home to rural Mississippi for a chance to finally get it right.

Chapter Two: Finding Home

2022/02/10

Anasia Sturdivant and Ciara Hunter leave city life behind to find new places to call home.

Interlude: The Alabama Birth Collective

2022/02/10

Meet the founding members of The Alabama Birth Collective.

Chapter Three: Body Talk

2022/02/10

The moments that (re)introduced Shayla, Erick and Anasia to their bodies.

Chapter Four: The Southern Spark

2022/02/10

Fannie Lou Hamer, Southern freedom fighter and one of the oldest Black-founded towns in the country spark The Browns' most transformational decision yet.

Chapter Five: Anasia's Journey

2022/02/10

Taking matters into her own hands, Anasia charts new pathways to parenthood uniquely her own.

Chapter Six: Ciara's Journey

2022/02/10

Ciara explores the multitude of care options after learning she's pregnant.

Interlude: The Calling

2022/02/10

Alabama Birth Collective founder Jasmine Merritt on answering the call to serve.

Chapter Seven: Pregnancy Tales

2022/02/10

From the physical to the emotional, all four parents navigate the highs and lows of pregnancy – and for some, even during a pandemic.

Chapter Eight: The Arrival

2022/02/10

The babies are coming.

Chapter Nine: Metamorphosis

2022/02/10

The parents adjust to life postpartum and the powerful transformations they've undergone.

Interlude: The Sisterhood

2022/02/10

Alabama Birth Collective founding member, Nadia Gramby, on the sisterhood of birthwork.

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4.1 out of 5

574 reviews

JJBeeperKing 2021/02/10

Required listening for any and all medical students

Much respect for this necessary journalism

acohl 2021/02/05

Taught me so much

This was one one my absolute favorite podcasts to come out in 2020. I truly learned so much and found the format really engaging and welcoming, too. I...

Stephaniedoran3 2020/11/02

thank you

loved this series. thank you for telling this stories.

Kathryn Tabor 2020/10/11

Episode 5

Oh my gosh. Episode 6 was so moving. Thank you Yvonne and Marilyn for sharing your stories. It was so inspiring to hear how you kept the faith through...

sarahjoanofarc 2020/09/15

Beautiful, painful and necessary podcast

Thank you for putting together these amazing stories. They are so important to our future and can not be ignored as part of our past. I have learned a...

Doula-Mary 2020/09/06

Well done!

As a community based doula and childbirth educator, I listen to A LOT of birth and pregnancy related podcasts. NATAL is by far one of the best podcas...

maranlulam 2020/09/01

Thank you

Deeply inspiring and humbling thank you for all of the knowledge and the courageous families telling them!

jillianaileen 2020/08/31

Storytelling at its Finest

I love this podcast, and the mix of provider and birther, statistics and stories, narration and humanizing birth stories that often happen behind clos...

And u know this is true 2020/08/30

Thank you

I do not have children yet but as a black women..listening every story inspires me continue to learn more about the injustice black women face while s...

kogilvie 2020/08/20

Now more than ever

This podcast is taking that whisper network of stories shared from one woman to another, one woman at a time, and making them public, while also educa...

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