Parenting Mighty Littles: Parenting from the NICU and Beyond
Kids & Family:Parenting
Ebony had every symptom of Pre-Eclampsia and HELLP, yet there was a delay in recognizing it. During this podcast, we talk about Ebony’s work with the March of Dimes and the #It’sNotFine Campain. Despite it being the year 2020 Black, American Indian, and Alaska Native women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women (CDC, 2019).
I’ll be honest. This is a hard conversation. It is an uncomfortable conversation. But it is a conversation that we have got to have. It is simply Not Ok. We need to do better. We MUST do better. And here are a few ways to get moving in the right direction:
Slow down and listen. Ignore pre-conceived notions. Do not make clinical assumptions before you have really listened to the patient. When health care providers really listen to patients, they find the information they need to provide good care.
Patients need to educate themselves prior to showing up to a hospital or clinic. Know your symptoms, do a little research when you can, and come armed with information to advocate for yourselves.
It is unfortunate that black women almost have to become the stereotype of the aggressive woman they are unfairly portrayed as in order to get the health care system to listen to them.
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