She Breathes Life
Join Maternity Care Coalition, She Can Win, and community advocate Tiffany Newmuis for She Breathes Life, a virtual yoga and guided meditation class led by yoga and meditation instructor Leslee Frye.
Board President’s Perspective
MCC's Board President, Liza Seltzer, pens an impactful response to current policies for and against families. Inspiration for the post came from a Summer 2018 family trip where she saw the infamous J35 orca whale pod and the deceased newborn calf being pushed by its Mother.
Serena Williams = Super Woman: Exploring Maternal Mortality through a non-Mom Serena Williams Fan
“I fight a lot of battles in my life and it’s just fighting against the odds.”-Serena Williams Growing up, Serena Williams was my idol. Seeing h
More U.S. women are dying in childbirth: What can be done?
More women becoming pregnant in the U.S. are already sick with serious chronic conditions. This is one of the reasons why, in the last 20 years, the number of women dying from complications related to childbirth has more than doubled in this country, while maternal mortality is actually decreasing in developing countries.
Supporting Nursing Mothers is Good Business
At Maternity Care Coalition, we are working to make breastfeeding accessible and safe for mothers and their children. To accomplish this, we are encouraging policy makers to support HB-11oo, the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act, which would promote workplace fairness by ensuring that nursing moms have a private, sanitary place to express breast milk and reasonable break time to do so across the state of Pennsylvania.