The Mama-Pikin Foundation

Really good podcast conversation with Dr. Rachel Pope about Maternal Health. Fun fact, we met when I overheard her conversation about obstetric fistulas in the airport in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 and I said “you have got to be my people!” 🙌🏾💕🤣
In this episode, we discussed my work keeping mothers safe around the world, the Cocoon Pregnancy Care Model, things that moms can do to have healthy pregnancies, and things that we as healthcare workers can do to improve the care we provide! I love her podcast so make sure to listen to this short but very interesting episode during Black Maternal Health Week 🤰🏾💕!

‎Our Womanity Q & A with Dr. Rachel Pope: 6. Maternal Health and Race with Dr. Fatu Forna on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Our Womanity Q & A with Dr. Rachel Pope, Ep 6. Maternal Health and Race with Dr. Fatu Forna - Apr 12, 2024

It’s possible to in our lifetimes. What do y’all think ? 💪🏾🇸🇱

Video: This woman is trying to stop FGM in Sierra Leone. But not everyone approves | CNN Sierra Leone has the seventh highest rate of Female Ge***al Mutilation in Africa and one organization is trying to stop the practice while preserving tradition. With so many vested interests, and a culture of secrecy, is an end to FGM possible?

This is a big deal for the people of Sierra Leone, but especially for the children, who face an Under-5 mortality (death before age 5) of 27,155 per year according to UNICEF.

Sierra Leone receives 550,000 doses of the newly developed malaria vaccine, which have been recommended and approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This donation to the government of Sierra Leone was supported by GAVI and UNICEF. It is hoped that these vaccines will decrease the death toll by 25% in children affected by malaria in the country. 🇸🇱🙏🏾🇸🇱🙏🏾🇸🇱

It seems like the 🤰🏾🤰🏾🤰🏾like this video! I release these pregnancy videos 1-2 times a week and it’s interesting to see the ones that people really love 💕

TikTok · DrFatuForna 901 likes, 35 comments. “5 medications most black women should take in pregnancy 🤰🏾Prenatal vitamins 🤰🏾Folic Acid 🤰🏾Iron 🤰🏾IV iron if severe anemia 🤰🏾Baby Aspirin to prevent preeclampsia”

The Mama-Pikin Foundation Belleh Uman Bato Group at Grey Bush clinic in Freetown today with 44 pregnant women and 11 lactating mothers participating. The women cooked and ate, discussed health messages, and celebrated the Mami Queen Traditional Birth Attendant ( ) of the month who brought in the most mothers for prenatal care and delivery! Simple interventions like our Delivery Buckets, Transportation assistance for pregnant women in labor, and Belleh Uman Bato Groups are needed to encourage women to deliver in health facilities instead of undergoing unsafe deliveries at home. Please consider donating to our Foundation to support pregnant women and children in 6 Districts in Sierra Leone - Bombali, Koinadugu, Kenema, Bo, Western Area Urban and Western Area Rural💕🇸🇱

In Krio. Everything you need to know about Female Ge***al Mutilation / Female Circumcision / Bondo. It’s origins, prevalence around the world, health effects and the specific situation in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 . Please share. Thanks!

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We are so happy to continue our work improving health for mothers and babies in Sierra Leone 💕🇸🇱
“FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — One of the misimpressions people have about the world is that it’s going to hell.
Perhaps that’s because humanity’s great triumph over the last half-century — huge reductions in poverty, disease and early death — goes largely unacknowledged. Just about the worst thing that can happen to anyone is to lose a child, and historically, almost half of children died before reaching adulthood. We happen to live in a transformational era in which 96 percent of the world’s children now survive until adulthood.
That arc is visible here in Sierra Leone, a country that remains heartbreakingly poor — yet where the risk of a child dying is less than half what it was 20 years ago.
You may have heard of Sierra Leone as “the most dangerous place in the world to give birth.” No longer true: Deaths in pregnancy and childbirth have plunged 74 percent since 2000, according to United Nations figures.

In a remote health center, I met Yeabu Kargbo, 19, who had just given birth with the help of a trained midwife, after a full set of prenatal visits. Medical care for pregnant women and babies is mostly free now in Sierra Leone, as is contraception.
Kargbo’s mother, who was offering unsolicited parenting advice that Kargbo pretended not to hear, is illiterate and had six children. Kargbo herself has a sixth-grade education and said she wanted to stop at three children — and with the country’s improving health care and education, she has big plans for her new baby girl.
“I want this child to go to university,” she said.
Sierra Leone is still a dangerous place to give birth by international standards. But I’ve been visiting West Africa since I was a law student in 1982, and one reason I often write about reproductive health is that I’ve seen too many women dying unnecessarily in childbirth in the region. The improvement in well-being is stunning.
More than 90 percent of pregnant women in Sierra Leone now get prenatal care, and the great majority are assisted during delivery by a trained midwife, nurse or doctor. After delivery, nurses put babies to the breast right away and counsel moms on exclusive breastfeeding practices, reducing infant mortality.
At the bustling maternity ward in the city of Makeni, a nurse told me that women in labor now often arrive on the backs of motorcycles, which doesn’t sound great — until she explains that they used to arrive in wheelbarrows.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/opinion/sierra-leone-progress-health-children.html?fbclid=IwAR3BYCuiJc_-qlAiXzo8MlZGUuMgwMQLHKSUvSt57ILeLFMlMc-SPtBu8YU&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Opinion | This May Be the Most Important Thing Happening in the World Today Fewer children are starving, fewer moms are dying and terrible diseases are retreating.