Last week, Black women all over collectively gasped with excitement when Gabrielle Union and her husband, NBA star Dwyane Wade, surprised fans with the news they’d just welcomed a newborn daughter via surrogate. They shared the news by posting a photo of them posing together with the newborn at the hospital. The photo showed Union in the hospital bed, wearing a headwrap, sans makeup and fluff, holding her baby close and practicing a common and critical newborn bonding process called skin-to-skin.
