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🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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As maternal deaths rose in the U.S. during the pandemic, Black women bore the brunt. In fact, they are almost three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women. Helena Grant, Kimberly Seals Allers and Congresswoman Alma Adams join Tiziana Dearing.
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0:00.0 | I'm T. Sianna Deering in for Magna Chakrabardi, and this is on point. |
0:05.0 | I'm not a doctor. I can't tell you that I know what to do. |
0:09.0 | But it's like we put our trust in the healthcare system that these individuals are skilled, are competent. |
0:16.0 | They know what they're doing. But in this case, it's hard to believe that they made this many mistakes. |
0:24.0 | It's heartbreaking. |
0:27.0 | Anthony Wallace is a social worker and a counselor at an elementary school in Indianapolis. |
0:32.0 | He moved there from Alabama with his wife, Shines, in 2017, to complete her residency in pediatric medicine. |
0:40.0 | A few years later, they decided they wanted to start a family. |
0:44.0 | Shines came off with birth control. And then the early part of 2020, it was around Valentine's, where we actually realized that we were pregnant. |
0:53.0 | It was just like, oh, yeah, we pregnant already. So we were very, very, very excited. |
1:01.0 | For the most part, our pregnancy process was pretty smooth, but went to the routine appointment. |
1:07.0 | And they had found protein in her urine. And so protein in the urine is a sign that your high risk for developing preeclampsia, that's one of the signs. |
1:19.0 | She was telling me she was having headaches, which is also a sign. And so the doctors should have had a more sense of urgency, then, until her. |
1:28.0 | Instead, they told her, you know, you're fine, even though there is protein in your urine, it's not that much. So you should be okay. |
1:38.0 | It was October 20th, when she went for a routine doctor's appointment, and they told her she had developed a high blood pressure. |
1:48.0 | They told her they're going to admit her to the hospital. She was complaining about pain, you know, and her body. And it was kind of dismissed. |
1:58.0 | Not kind of was dismissed to hear from the physicians. They're saying, you know, you could be experiencing some anxiety and stressing out. |
2:08.0 | And things like that is what they were saying to her. And she's telling them, like, no, like, I'm hurting. |
2:16.0 | Her voice was still dismissed, even though she was a physician herself. |
2:22.0 | With her developing high blood pressure, they tell her, you know, we are going to do an emergency C-section, because the preeclampsia is just developing really fast. |
2:34.0 | And our beautiful daughter is born to us on October 20th, 2020. |
2:40.0 | They told me that the deliverable will, but our blood pressure was really, really high. But after the C-section, our blood pressure went really, really low. |
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