Join us as Lyanna shares her birth stories. Lyanna also discusses her work as a Certified Lactation Specialist, and her training to be a Doula with Day one Doula Collective. Lyanna is also on the Mom's Bloom Outreach Committee and the Kent County Breastfeeding Coalition.

We discuss Lyanna's personal experiences giving birth, as well as the racial disparities that black and brown women face throughout childbirth. Lyanna also shares some helpful resources available online and in our community.

Notes:
Lyanna can be contacted on facebook (Lyanna R Moore Doula-Cls) or via email LRN042008@gmail.com

Helpful Sites
HUGS breastfeeding support group – strongbeginningskent.org
Southeast Michigan IBCLC's of Color- Semiibclcofcolor.org

Books
Killing the black body by Dorothy E. Roberts https://amzn.to/3f1x1Jq

Documentaries
Belly of the beast
Toxic: A black womens birth story