143. Motherhood Mondays with Dr. Taraneh Shirazian, OB/GYN & President of Saving Mothers
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
"Women are dying of causes that should not kill them in 2019."
Dr. Taraneh Shirazian is a board-certified OB/GYN and surgeon practicing at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, where she's also the Director of Global Women's Health at NYU's College of Global Public Health. In 2009, Dr. Shirazian created the Saving Mothers nonprofit organization, whose goal is to lower the global rate of maternal deaths. Currently, 350,000 women worldwide die due to pregnancy and childbirth complications. That's one mother dying every two minutes. On this episode, we talk about the important work Saving Mothers is doing to further women's empowerment and patient advocacy during pregnancy and childbirth, and we discuss why, exactly, so many women are dying this way, particularly women of color. Dr. Shirazian, a mom of two, also talks about her newest venture, Mommy Matters, which directly supports Saving Mothers.
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What you'll get on this episode:
- Why Dr. Shirazian says doctors make the worst patients (5:15)
- Why are so many women dying during childbirth? (7:45)
- All about Saving Mothers (12:30)
- Why are so many women dying during childbirth in New York City? Plus, the racial disparities involved with maternal deaths (17:00)
- Shirazian's recommended resources for pregnant women (23:00)
- How to support Saving Mothers (24:30)
- All about Mommy Matters (27:20)
- Shirazian's message to moms in all stages of motherhood, plus what she remembers about her own experience as a new mom (35:50)
- On returning to work post-baby (41:30)
What we mention on this episode:
American College of OB/GYN Patient Education Portal
Run the TCS New York City Marathon for Saving Mothers
Mommy Matters ergonomic pillow
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood Mondays on the Alley on the Run Show are brought to you by Sweaty Betty. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome to the fourth episode in the Motherhood Monday series. The feedback for this series has been |
| 0:14.2 | amazing so far and I just want to thank you all for listening and supporting the show |
| 0:19.3 | and for sending your kind words, your screenshots and your personal stories my way. |
| 0:23.9 | That is why we're doing this and I love that you're here today and are along for the ride. |
| 0:29.2 | Today's episode is really important and I love having this conversation because it really |
| 0:33.2 | got me out of my comfort zone. My guest today is Dr. Tara Shirazian. She's a board certified |
| 0:38.8 | gynecologist and surgeon at NYU Langone in New York City where she's also the director of Global |
| 0:44.3 | Women's Health in NYU's College of Global Public Health. She is all about women's empowerment |
| 0:49.9 | and patient advocacy and that focus is why she created the nonprofit saving mothers. Dr. Shirazian is |
| 0:57.0 | the president and medical director of saving mothers. Their goal is to lower the global rate of |
| 1:02.0 | maternal deaths. These numbers which we talk about on this episode are absolutely staggering. Dr. |
| 1:08.3 | Shirazian's team of doctors and volunteers focus on women's health, education and empowerment |
| 1:13.2 | in low resource regions and she also just launched Mommy Matters. So yes this woman who's also a |
| 1:19.2 | mom of two she is busy. Mommy Matters is a line of female doctor developed products that help pregnant |
| 1:25.9 | and postpartum women become more comfortable. Alright so why did this episode get me out of my |
| 1:30.9 | comfort zone? Well because throughout my pregnancy I was fortunate to have great access to top-notch |
| 1:36.5 | care. My midwife, my doula they held my hand every step of the way including during labor and |
| 1:41.7 | delivery and they've supported me during the postpartum period. I knew how lucky I was to have that level |
| 1:47.6 | of care and I know it's not the worldwide standard but I didn't realize just how many women die |
| 1:53.7 | during or soon after childbirth from complications not just globally in the United States in New |
| 1:59.8 | York City. These numbers are high and they are scary and many of these deaths Dr. Shirazian explained |
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