So, preeclampsia, the very condition Beyonce almost died from when she gave birth to the twins.

My childhood best friend also had.

She went into labor eight weeks early and almost died.

This is a real epidemic afflicting black mothers.

We can't afford to not talk about this.

Do you remember this tweet?

Oh, my goodness.

Actually, I do.

I didn't even know about preeclampsia until I read Beyonce's 28th. Yeah.

Yeah.

And I think that's when I, you know, I was like, okay, this is something really serious. It's a pregnancy complication with symptoms like swelling, rapid weight gain, and high blood pressure.

Literally all of the same symptoms that my friend had and, you know, was trying to warn her nurses and doctors about, you know,

and eventually they hurt her, but it took a while for them to believe her. And had they sort of

left her untreated and not really dealt with it, prea clamsia can get deadly, you know,

like both the parent and the baby, their lives are at risk. Right. When I think back to that

viral tweet, what really blew my mind, you know, like after like,

retweet after retweet all of the comments, all of the DMs, I started to realize just how

common this experience is.

You know, a lot of folks either have direct experience with it or they know someone who did.

Yeah.

And when I saw your tweet, I immediately

thought about my own mom. She never had preeclampsia, but she had four children and experienced

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