“When a child is born, a mother is born as well,” says Eyeson-Akiwowo, 44, quoting a familiar adage. “During pregnancy, which really is a year-long process, if not longer, a woman becomes a new person, and she has to adjust to who she is and who she has become throughout this life-altering process. Some never fully recalibrate,” continues the mother of eight-year-old daughter Omolara.
Just this week, a coalition of 21 state attorneys general nationwide penned a letter to Congress, urging the passage of the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021, aimed at addressing the social impact of the Black maternal mortality crisis, ensuring that Black women have access to equitable care at all stages of pregnancy. The legislative package comprises 12 bills that propose to address the crisis through increased grant funding, enhanced data collection, and improving community programs.
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Malika Fair is a new mother. She’s an African American. She’s a practicing physician. And, she’s the senior director of health equity partnerships and programs at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), as well as an associate clinical professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C.
All of which gives her a pretty panoramic perspective on how Black people are treated by the healthcare system in the U.S. One common practice that deeply concerns Dr. Fair is called “race-norming,” which refers to the adjustment of medical test results or medical risk assessments based on a patient’s race. In other words, if you’re Black , you might score differently than you would if you are white with the identical or similar set of symptoms simply because of the color of your skin.
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Know the Difference Between Natural Birth and Cesarean Surgery
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As celebrities like Kareena Kapoor Khan, Anita Hassanandani prepare to welcome their babies, let us take a look at the two methods of childbirth that are most common.
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Natural birth:
Childbirth without any medication is known as natural birth. In this process, the mother is not given any pain medication during labor. However, there can be a use of other medical interventions, such as fetal heart monitoring. Or it can also mean having zero medical intervention in the process. Sometimes a baby can get stuck in the vaginal canal or the mother can get exhausted during a long delivery, so a vacuum extraction method is used to assist the delivery of these babies. Without any pain medication, mothers rely on relaxation techniques like controlled breathing to help reli