Advocates say more needs to be done -- particularly for mothers of color
required the state’s maternal mortality review committee to recommend ways to collect more data about marginalized groups of people, including any mistreatment they may have experienced.
A bad birth outcome is traumatic on its own, but there’s another layer of pain if a family feels that it could have been prevented if providers had listened to them, said Lusero, who uses they/them pronouns.
Brace Gibson, director of policy and advocacy at the Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative, said the state is revamping itssurvey to ask about bad experiences with health care during pregnancy and birth. Currently, the survey has questions about whether mothers are breastfeeding, their opinions on vaccines, if they use certain drugs and whether their families are facing financial struggles.
Staff for the legislative Joint Budget Committee recommended the additional funds, but noted concerns that Colorado may not have enough trained doulas to meet demand, particularly since most now work with affluent clients who pay out-of-pocket.could also present an opportunity to bring peer support specialists into maternal health care, if it passes, Gibson said.
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