Connecting With Nature Helps Black Women Have Healthier Pregnancies

Connecting With Nature Helps Black Women Have Healthier Pregnancies

Connecting With Nature Helps Black Women Have Healthier Pregnancies This article was originally published by Healthbeat, a nonprofit newsroom covering public health published by Civic News Company and KFF Health News. At the start of her pregnancy with her now 10-month-old daughter, Marica Lowe was consumed by fear. She was so worried for her safety and that of her unborn baby that she holed up in her bedroom most days. She even skipped Mardi Gras, the vibrant but notoriously crowded festival that is normally the highlight of her year. But as spring began, and the streets filled with flowering trees, Lowe reconnected with what had lured her to move to New Orleans from her hometown of New York City two years earlier: nature. “The first time I visited New Orleans, I went on a walk, and I saw limes growing on the tree,” Lowe said. “Fruit doesn’t grow on trees in New York, so that really drew me here.” Marica Lowe explores the natural corners of Tremé in New Orleans during her third trimester …