“Aftershock,” a new documentary now streaming on Hulu, spotlights the Black maternal mortality crisis in America.
— to reduce racial disparities in maternal mortality and give pregnant people more agency in their birth experiences.The Washington Post recently talked with Eiselt and Lewis Lee about making the film and how maternal health care in the United States needs to improve.We’re now almost a month out from the Dobbs decision.
I think, in general, communication with health-care providers, between health-care providers, is another one — really listening to women, seeing and hearing them. As Dr. Neel Shah says in the film, it’s not a luxury, it’s the key to saving lives.The film also delves into the history of how doctors have systemically mistreated Black women in the American health-care system.
When we first met Felicia, she was going to have a hospital birth. At about 35 weeks, she decided that, you know what, she wants to [give] birth in a birthing center. She made that pivot, she switched, and we were like, ‘We’re with you, we’re going to follow that.’ … She chose that new path, she had an amazing doula, and she had this beautiful, empowering birth.
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