004: Keep Calm and March For Moms
This Mother’s Day, the Green Docs host Laneceya Russ and Yuliya Labko of the national nonprofit March For Moms, featured recently in a 60 Minutes expose on improving maternal health.
This Mother’s Day, the Green Docs host Laneceya Russ and Yuliya Labko of the national nonprofit March For Moms, featured recently in a 60 Minutes expose on improving maternal health.
Nate and Bruce lead off with some recent headlines: toxic chemicals in children’s clothes, elephants who can induce their own labor, and a couple of million-dollar babies – Oscar winner Hilliary Swank welcomes twins.
The guys next welcome a surprise guest- Nate’s mom, Mary- who shares her decades of experience caring for pregnant women as a doctor of nursing and lactation consultant. Of course, she has some embarrassing childhood stories about Nate and even some scary tales of Bruce dancing in New Orleans at Nate’s wedding.
Laneceya and Yuliya the interview guests highlight their amazing work helping protect moms and babies across the US, and once you’re ready to pitch in, don’t worry – we’ve got all the info for you to keep calm and march for moms.
Links
Toxic “fast-fashion” clothing:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-fast-fashion-chemicals-1.6193385
Elephants might be able to induce their own labor:
https://gizmodo.com/elephants-might-be-able-to-self-medicate-to-induce-labo-1611904103
Hillary Swank and her twins:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-04-10/hilary-swank-twins-birth-babies
60 Minutes: In Louisiana, pregnant women struggle to get maternal health care and the situation is getting worse:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/women-in-louisiana-fight-to-get-maternal-health-care-60-minutes-transcript-2023-04-30/
“Better” by Atul Gwande:
https://atulgawande.com/book/better/
Momnibus suite of bills in the U.S. Congress:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/959
Protecting Moms and Babies from Climate Change Act:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/423
U.S. House of Representatives Black Maternal Health Caucus Roundtable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y40xdxszciM
March For Moms:
https://marchformoms.org
Chocolate Milk Mommies:
http://www.chocolatemilkmommies.org
Nurturely: Wombs & Wildfires:
https://nurturely.org/wildfires/
TikTok - Green Docs on Popcorngate:
https://www.tiktok.com/@greendocspod/video/7224575085284265259
H2Om:
https://www.shoph2om.com/ USE discount code: GreenDocs20 (good through May 31st)
Visit the Green Docs podcast for a lot more https://www.greendocspodcast.com/
Laneceya Russ
Executive Director
Laneceya Russ is the executive director of March for Moms. She has a Master's degree in Communication from University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies from Louisiana State University. Laneceya currently volunteers at Baton Rouge Youth Coalition and is a board member of Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response and the Louisiana Crime Victim Reparations Board. She also is the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access chair for the Greater Baton Rouge chapter of the Associates of Fundraising Professionals.
Yuliya Labko
Policy and Advocacy Director
Yuliya Labko, MSN, CNM is a Certified Nurse Midwife at Abington- Jefferson Health and the Policy and Advocacy Director at March for Moms. She is passionate about legislative work to improve maternal health outcomes and focuses her work at March for Moms on national and state level initiatives such as maternal mortality review committees, access to care via Telehealth, and addressing disparities in outcomes with legislation like the Black Maternal Health Momnibus. She is a One Young World Ambassador and the current Health Equity Academy Transformational Fellow at Families USA. Yuliya holds a BSN and MSN from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Post Master’s Certificate in Midwifery from Shenandoah University.
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