Cultural maternal health care for women of color key to reducing harm

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Cultural maternal health care for women of color key to reducing harm

Octavia Treadway’s middle son was a drummer before he was born. “He actually started drumming in the womb,” said Treadway, the co-executive director of You’re Carrying Someone Great, a nonprofit that, once launched this summer, will focus on the prenatal and postnatal health of Black and brown parents and children.  “We would be at church and the choir would start to sing and play, and he would just be going crazy. It was just his thing … he was…