The Mocha Manual

There’s a new book on how to have a fabulous pregnancy for African-American women. Kimberly Seals-Allers is the author of “The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy.” The book offers culturally specific tips for African-American women. Dr. Seals-Allers also has a website with blog set up to help you preggo black women out there.

The Chicago Sun-Times writes:

A Queens, N.Y., native, Seals-Allers penned Mocha Manual because “when I was pregnant it was very hard for me to find information for black women that wasn’t targeted to being a low-income or teenage mother. I didn’t really feel anything was geared to today’s black woman, written in a younger tone… I wanted to have something that felt like your friends, your sisters and your aunties giving advice.”

A reporter who interviewed about 10 doctors for the book, Seals-Allers discovered that whether black moms-to-be were high school dropouts or held doctorate degrees, they had the highest incidences of premature births and low-birth-weight babies — and they were three to four times more likely than white women to suffer pregnancy-related deaths.

The State Of . . . your pregnancy will likely improve with the advice in this book. This is definitely an idea whose time has come. The author is a freelance writer who continues to write for Fortune, Real Simple, Essence, and Working Woman, to name a few. It seems this mother is also a working one. Hmmmm. I wonder how Justin feels about this?