{"id":15556,"date":"2020-11-10T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.mom.com\/momlife\/pregnant-and-black-ways-to-celebrate-your-pregnancy"},"modified":"2024-11-14T07:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T12:08:09","slug":"pregnant-and-black-ways-to-celebrate-your-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mom.com\/pregnancy\/pregnant-and-black-ways-to-celebrate-your-pregnancy","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant and Black: 8 Ways to Celebrate Your Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>If you Google &ldquo;Black pregnancy&rdquo; right now, you will see thousands of articles about <a href=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/baby\/risk-of-black-maternal-mortality-doesnt-stop-at-birth-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black maternal mortality<\/a>, the reason why Black women are at a higher risk of dying during pregnancy, pregnancy complications that affect Black women, and articles explaining the disparities in maternal health care. Honestly, it&rsquo;s heartbreaking and disappointing that celebrating the beautiful period of a soon-to-be mother&rsquo;s life is not at the forefront.<\/p><p>Pregnancy is already filled with stress and worries about having a healthy baby and delivery, so instead of focusing on what could go wrong, let&rsquo;s take some time to celebrate and cherish the ability to grow a human being and commemorate how our bodies look. Pregnancy milestones are happy moments. Each family should be <a href=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/pregnancy\/adorable-online-and-downloadable-baby-shower-invitations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebrating pregnancy news<\/a> once they discover they are pregnant.<\/p><p>Click through for some ideas on how you can celebrate your beautiful, Black pregnancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you Google &ldquo;Black pregnancy&rdquo; right now, you will see thousands of articles about Black maternal mortality, the reason why Black women are at a higher risk of dying during pregnancy, pregnancy complications that affect Black women, and articles explaining the disparities in maternal health care. Honestly, it&rsquo;s heartbreaking and disappointing that celebrating the beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":194144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,9,2],"tags":[1917,2190,2191],"featured":[],"internal-tag":[],"series":[121],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pregnant and Black: 8 Ways to Celebrate Your Pregnancy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fun and creative ways to celebrate your pregnancy as a Black woman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/pregnancy\/pregnant-and-black-ways-to-celebrate-your-pregnancy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pregnant and Black: 8 Ways to Celebrate Your Pregnancy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Celebrate Black pregnancy to showcase your #BlackGirlMagic.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/pregnancy\/pregnant-and-black-ways-to-celebrate-your-pregnancy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mom.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-10T10:50:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-11-14T12:08:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/iStock-179135707-1-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Pregnant and Black: 8 Ways to Celebrate Your Pregnancy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Celebrate Black pregnancy to showcase your #BlackGirlMagic.\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mom.com\/pregnancy\/pregnant-and-black-ways-to-celebrate-your-pregnancy#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mom.com\/pregnancy\/pregnant-and-black-ways-to-celebrate-your-pregnancy\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lorena Mendieta Bueno\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e638f9a3e9b7e8042849a6f30886b322\"},\"headline\":\"Pregnant and Black: 8 Ways to Celebrate Your Pregnancy\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-10T10:50:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-11-14T12:08:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mom.com\/pregnancy\/pregnant-and-black-ways-to-celebrate-your-pregnancy\"},\"wordCount\":154,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mom.com\/pregnancy\/pregnant-and-black-ways-to-celebrate-your-pregnancy#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/iStock-179135707-1-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"BIPOC\",\"Black pregnancy\",\"pregnancy celebrations\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Pregnancy\",\"Pregnancy Announcements\",\"Pregnancy Beauty &amp; 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