“Sometimes that can be pretty intimidating because we’re all a little shy when it comes to professionals,” she told her class. After all, she said, it can make a big difference when it comes to keeping Black mothers and their children alive. She tells the women to write down any questions they might have ahead of a checkup, and insist that they get answers. Jones-Foxx, who is president of the Wichita Black Nurses Association, lingers on a slide about the importance of communicating with their doctors. So she coaches them on how to stay healthy during pregnancy: Are they taking their prenatal vitamins? Do they have strategies for managing stress? Do they know what resources exist if they need help buying healthy food? “And I have a master’s degree.”Īt the Dellrose United Methodist Church in Wichita, she teaches pregnant women, particularly Black women, about that work - with the understanding that, statistically, their babies are less likely to live to see their first birthday than white children. “It’s the hardest work I’ve ever done,” she said. WICHITA, Kansas - Peggy Jones-Foxx knows what it takes to raise a baby.
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