Black Woman Working...

The July dedication is posted for @blackwomanwork... Each episode of Black Woman Working is inspired by an experience shared by or shared with Sheri Nicole. Please listen to the dedication and make sure to listen to the full episode loading July 31, Black Woman Working... on normalizing black women health around fibroid awareness. In fact, the July and August episodes will be on this very important topic. Uterine fibroids are noncancerous growths of the uterus that often appear during childbearing years. Fibroids range in size from seedlings, undetectable by the human eye, to bulky masses that can distort and enlarge the uterus. You can have a single fibroid or multiple ones. In extreme cases, multiple fibroids can expand the uterus so much that it reaches the rib cage and can add weight. Many women who have fibroids don't have any symptoms. In those that do, symptoms can be influenced by the location, size and number of fibroids. Over their lifetime, about 80 percent of black women and 70 percent of white