Read about a new interview with actress and new mom Jodie Turner-Smith, in which she discusses the factors, including racism, that led to her decision of having a home birth.
just last year that, though mist pregnancy-related deaths are preventable, “racial and ethnic disparities in pregnancy-related deaths have persisted over time.hospitals’ delivery units
. “We never imagined that in the coming weeks, hospitals around the country would begin restricting who could be present in the birthing rooms, forcing mothers to deliver without the support person or people of their choice,” she said. “Delivering at home ensured that I had what every single woman deserves to have: full agency in determining my birth support.”
Turner-Smith spent four days in labor before welcoming her daughter in the world. Now that’s she here, the mom wonders how she’ll explain the events of 2020 to her daughter when she gets older. “Sometimes I wonder how I will explain to my daughter what it meant to be born in the year 2020,” she told the outlet. “The historic events, the social unrest, and me–a new mother just trying to do her best. I think I will tell her that it was as if the world had paused for her to be born. And that, hopefully, it never quite returned to the way it was before.”
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