About LunaYou – LunaYou

We created LunaYou because

Today, U.S. women are 50% more likely to die or experience a serious complication in childbirth than their mothers.
Women on Medicaid are 82% more likely to develop life threatening complications than women who are privately insured.
Black women are 3x more likely to die in childbirth than white women.
Black and Latina women experience rising and disproportionately higher rates of premature births.
38% of women of color suffer from postpartum depression compared to 16% of white women.

LunaYou is

Empowering each woman to take charge of her pregnancy journey, with the confidence that she can influence better outcomes.

Facilitating the connection of a small group of family and friends to support each woman on her pregnancy journey.

Enabling direct and trusted access to a real-time flow of information relevant to a woman’s maternal health and wellbeing, and her pregnancy.

Enabling women to engage with medical care and social services quickly when needed to respond to real time changes in her maternal risk patterns.

Catalyzing a micro-culture of racial sensitivity, respect and honest communication to lessen the stress of interacting with today’s healthcare system while working with providers to address biases.