When it comes to maternal health for Black women, the data paints a harrowing picture. Black women are three times more likely to die in pregnancy and postpartum than white women, according to Centers for Disease Control numbers. We are fortune to be working with TAO LEE Associates and JAMAA BIRTH VILLAGE, a clinic and eventual postpartum care retreat that provides specialized care for Black women, their babies and families. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently published an article that shines a light on the American maternal health crisis and emerging projects and resources available to pregnant women and families, including Jamaa. Our Margaret Bailey, MBA and Brian Silva, AIA, NCARB, CLGB explain their thoughts behind building a space that replicates African customs and cultural norms founder Okunsola Amadou envisioned from the very beginning, in the AIA Architect piece: https://lnkd.in/gpQVmhM7
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Imagine stepping into 2024, where technology and healthcare are advancing at lightning speed. Yet, despite all of the progress, Black women still find themselves increasingly fearful about pregnancy. This isn’t a new fear. Through a research project a few years back, I learned that while Black women were aware of their high maternal mortality rates, none of them understood why. (To make matters worse their doctors had bothered to educate them, heightening their fears.) In a nation that spends so much on healthcare, how did we get here? How did we reach this point where a woman, instead of being excited about a new chapter in her life, must move through it with fear about receiving equitable healthcare? *** From the Hill: “…Nearly 40 percent of Black women of reproductive age said they feel less safe and think about the risk of death if they become pregnant in the new poll from In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda with PerryUndem, published Monday… The fear is not unfounded… Studies show Black [women] who give birth are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts, while Black infants are two times more likely to die within their first year than white infants. Reasons for the disparities are nuanced, but many point to systemic racism in the health care system that dismisses Black women’s symptoms…” 🔗 Article: https://lnkd.in/eaMiMNUw 🎙️Podcast: https://lnkd.in/epAiUWxq
The Switch Up — Black maternal mortality crisis: An American epidemic
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The landscape of motherhood in the United States is changing. Many are opting out of motherhood altogether, or are focusing more on careers and other fulfilling parts of life that delay motherhood. While there is technology and medicine to support moms of all ages, proper care for older mothers is not equally shared across racial groups. Recent research shows that Black mothers are giving birth to very low-weight children (defined as being under 5.8 pounds) nearly twice as often as White mothers, with the gap in low birthweight increasing as maternal age increases. PHP Fellow Sean H. writes more about these findings here: https://lnkd.in/e7MjCmug
Weighing In on Maternal Health
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What do Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and current 400m world record holder Wayde van Niekerk all have in common? All were born at least two months prematurely. And yet between them, they have made discoveries or performed feats that stand them apart in human history. Our world would be poorer without them. Each of these men defied the odds when it came to their birth; when Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642, he weighed just three pounds. Thanks to medical advances, more and more premature babies are surviving, at younger and younger ages. Among them may be the next generation of men and women who will transform our world in some way. The record for the most premature baby to survive lies with Curtis Means who was born at 21 weeks and one day in Birmingham, Alabama in November 2021. In my own constituency of Eastbourne, adorable twins Rocco and Franco were born at 23 weeks and 6 days gestation. These little fighters are thriving, having recently celebrated their second birthday. In the decade to 2019 alone, the survival rate in the UK for extremely premature babies born at 23 weeks doubled, prompting new guidance from the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM) that enables doctors to intervene to save premature babies from 22 weeks gestation. This is news to be celebrated, itself a feat of medical progress that has transformed countless lives. And yet, it leaves a contradiction in how we in the UK regard babies at this gestation. Unlike our closest European neighbours, the UK’s upper time limit for abortion of 24 weeks remains beyond the gestational age at which many babies now survive. Over 35 MPs, led by Caroline Ansell MP, have come together to table an amendment to the Government’s flagship Criminal Justice Bill to lower the abortion time limit from 24 weeks to 22 weeks.
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Professor Method Tuuli tells Providence Business News that Black women in the U.S. experience a staggering two- to three-fold higher risk of pregnancy-related mortality compared to their white counterparts. Structural racism, limited access to quality maternity care, and biases within healthcare systems contribute to this alarming disparity. "The challenges in maternal health faced by Black women have been long-standing. However, it has become more prominent in the public domain in recent years," he says. But there's hope on the horizon. Dr. Tuuli emphasizes the importance of multipronged approaches to tackle these challenges head-on: 1️⃣ Designing patient-centered maternity care. 2️⃣ Addressing systemic racism and biases in healthcare. 3️⃣ Combatting adverse social determinants of health. 4️⃣ Advocating for policy changes like paid maternity leave. With the Black Mamas Matter Alliance we aim to raise awareness of the experiences of Black mothers. Let's work together to ensure reproductive justice for all: #BlackMaternalHealthWeek #ReproductiveJustice #HealthEquity #BMHW2024
Five Questions With: Dr. Methodius Tuuli
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Learn about groups dedicated to improving maternal health outcomes for Black women. Partnerships and collaborations are essential. https://lnkd.in/gZsim4et
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April is a busy month, and with so many awareness days, weeks, and months, it's essential to stay informed, equipped, and ready for action. In this country, we need action, doers, funders, and policies to eliminate systemic barriers to achieving health equity and eliminating health disparities. This year, April 11-17, 2024, marks Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW). Founded by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Inc. (BMMA) in 2018, BMHW is a national week of awareness, activism, and community building. It aims to deepen the national conversation about Black maternal health in the US, amplify community-driven policy, research, and care solutions, and center the voices of Black Mamas, women, families, and stakeholders. BMHW also provides a national platform for Black-led entities and efforts on maternal health, birth, and reproductive justice while enhancing community organizing on Black maternal health. Learn more about BMHW here: blackmamasmatter.org/bmhw. In the comments, I'll post an article from Essence Communications Inc. with a list of groups dedicated to improving maternal health outcomes for Black women. If you're in Chicago, like me, there are lots of events and activities happening. I encourage you to participate in this week and learn more about Black maternal health. I hope to see you outside! #BlackMaternalHealthWeek #BMHW #BlackMamasMatter #NationalMinorityHealthMonth #NMHM #HealthEquity #HealthEquityonLinkedIn #Doulas #BirthingCenters #Medicaid
2024 Black Maternal Health Week - Black Mamas Matter Alliance
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What do Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and current 400m world record holder Wayde van Niekerk all have in common? All were born at least two months prematurely. And yet between them, they have made discoveries or performed feats that stand them apart in human history. Our world would be poorer without them. Each of these men defied the odds when it came to their birth; when Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642, he weighed just three pounds. Thanks to medical advances, more and more premature babies are surviving, at younger and younger ages. Among them may be the next generation of men and women who will transform our world in some way. The record for the most premature baby to survive lies with Curtis Means who was born at 21 weeks and one day in Birmingham, Alabama in November 2021. In my own constituency of Eastbourne, adorable twins Rocco and Franco were born at 23 weeks and 6 days gestation. These little fighters are thriving, having recently celebrated their second birthday. In the decade to 2019 alone, the survival rate in the UK for extremely premature babies born at 23 weeks doubled, prompting new guidance from the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM) that enables doctors to intervene to save premature babies from 22 weeks gestation. This is news to be celebrated, itself a feat of medical progress that has transformed countless lives. And yet, it leaves a contradiction in how we in the UK regard babies at this gestation. Unlike our closest European neighbours, the UK’s upper time limit for abortion of 24 weeks remains beyond the gestational age at which many babies now survive. Over 45 MPs, led by Caroline Ansell MP, have come together to table an amendment to the Government’s flagship Criminal Justice Bill to lower the abortion time limit from 24 weeks to 22 weeks.
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👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Celebrating day 2 of the 7th Annual Black Maternal Health Week established first by Black Mamas Matter Alliance. Our #BMHW24 theme is: “Our Bodies Still Belong to Us: Reproductive Justice NOW!” Take time to learn more about community informed models of perinatal health care that operationalize the praxis of #ReproJustice. Let’s be open to interrogating physician centered and led models of care that reinforce subjugation and harm of Black birthing individuals and communities. As an dissident and recovering Southern Black woman OBGYN, I reconcile daily with contemporary oppressive ideologies and praxes of sexual, reproductive and perinatal health care provision in the U.S. that originated in chattel slavery and extended into the antebellum era. Unfortunately, the past is here in the present shaping our future unless we #Resist and #Refuse to go backwards. Take action today and be curious, critical, compassionate, courageous and creative. Stand in solidarity with us as we commit to applying #ReproJustice in all that we do!! Abstract Perinatal health outcomes in the United States continue to worsen, with the greatest burden of inequity falling on Black birthing communities. Despite transdisciplinary literature citing structural racism as a root cause of inequity, interventions continue to be mostly physician-centered models of perinatal and reproductive healthcare (PRH). These models prioritize individual, biomedical risk identification and stratification as solutions to achieving equity, without adequately addressing the social and structural determinants of health. The objective of this review is to: (1) examine the association between the impact of structural and obstetric racism and patient-centered access to PRH, (2) define and apply reproductive justice (RJ) as a framework to combat structural and obstetric racism in PRH, and (3) describe and demonstrate how to use an RJ lens to critically analyze physician-led and community-informed PRH models. We conclude with recommendations for building a PRH workforce whose capacity is aligned with racial equity. Institutional alignment with a RJ praxis creates opportunities for advancing PRH workforce diversification and development and improving PRH experiences and outcomes for our patients, communities, and workforce. Click on the link below to read our 2020 open access publication: https://lnkd.in/eGB-SdUD
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💜The Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) is a national network of organizations and leaders from the maternal health, human rights, and reproductive justice fields. We believe that every person deserves access to quality and holistic health care. Founded by BMMA, Black Maternal Health Week is a week of awareness, activism, and community-building aimed at amplifying the voices of Black Mamas and centering the values and traditions of the reproductive and birth justice movements. BMHW is held annually in April during National Minority Health Month. ➡️In the U.S., Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy- related cause than White women. CDC notes that more than 80% of pregnancy related deaths are preventable. (Source: CDC) ➡️In the United States, 29–44% of Black women experience postpartum depressive symptoms (PDS), yet few are properly identified and/or connected to mental care services. (Source: NIH) ➡️Twenty percent of women reported experiences of mistreatment during maternity care in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Thirty percent of Black, 29% of Hispanic, and 27% of multiracial women reported mistreatment. (Source: CDC) ➡️In 2022, the rate of preterm birth among African-American women (14.6%) was about 50 percent higher than the rate of preterm birth among white or Hispanic women (9.4% and 10.1% respectively). (Source: CDC) Please join us in supporting the Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA to help build awareness, activism, and community-building to amplify the voices, perspectives and lived experiences of Black Mamas and birthing people💜🙏 www.blackmamasmatter.org #BMHW24 #BlackMommasMatter #BlackMaternalHealthWeek #Reprojustice #WomenSupportingWomen
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2wVery cool concept