Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez

A Q&A with someone who has first-hand experience with weight loss surgery.

It's strange to think that at the end of the year I will be the

I couldn’t believe the medical system and several of my peers had me obsessing about my food consumption. I was experiencing food shaming during pregnancy.

It’s time we stop teaching shame and start spending more time fostering healthy sexual identities in young girls.

By educating my son on Juneteenth, I am able to make it clear to him that we may live in a nation that wasn’t established with us in mind, but we continue to find freedom anyway.

A clear medical bias and the stresses of new motherhood, often leaves Black women unsupported on their breastfeeding journeys.

Next time you see moms flying alone with kids, try some of these tips. You might make someone's day.

There are far too many stressors involved to force breastfeeding on new mothers. And far too many challenges involved to continue to pressure women who are dealing with a multitude of other issues into choosing one style of feeding.

A quick google search revealed that fibroids are noncancerous uterine growths. They can grow very large, cause extreme pain, and often lead to the removal of the uterus, like they did in my mother's case.

One way to combat negative outcomes post-election is to raise more inclusive children.