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Delivery Room Advocacy: How doulas can mitigate the effects of medical sexism and racism
Delivery Room Advocacy: How doulas can mitigate the effects of medical sexism and racism
March 15, 2021
The internet is littered with harrowing stories of childbirth gone awry. In The New York Times, Tara Haelle chronicles Tamoyia Hashim’s experience with her third child, in which she lost three quarts of blood and needed a hysterectomy. A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez similarly wrote in The Washington Post about post-birth complications that nearly killed her. What do these stories have in common? These women had no one to champion their needs in the delivery room and subsequently became advocates for doula presence during labor.