What it's like to give birth while black
during labour than white people. Of the more than 115,000 women surveyed in that research, 3 percent of Black women were found to experience postpartum haemorrhage compared to the 1.6 percent observed among white women. Systemic barriers like poverty, unemployment and discrimination also mean that Black women face an uneven playing field when it comes to their physical andHere in Canada, we like to pride ourselves on our health-care system.
Nnorom said this lack of data leads to disparities in care that she’s heard a lot about both from patients and other medical professionals. She worked for a number of years at TAIBU, a community health centre with a mandate to serve Toronto’s Black community, where many patients shared negative experiences in the health-care system, whether it was in the prenatal or birthing process.
“Systemic racism drives socio-economic differences, which really do affect the next generation. And those things both work independently, and they overlap,” Nnorom says. “Poverty is in itself a risk factor for pre-term birth, but racism has so many layers of stress that also affect poor birth outcomes.”After the delivery, Williams was in excruciating pain: “I had the worst headache I’d ever had in my life.
It was a few days before the blood patch was performed. “I had to really advocate for myself, which is hard to do when you’re healing.” Though successful in making small requests—asking to move beds to be closer to a window, for example—Williams couldn’t shake the feeling that both their pain and the anxieties were largely disregarded. “When the puncture happened, there wasn’t a lot of care put into that interaction. They just didn’t take responsibility at all.
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