Huffington Postのインスタグラム(huffpost) - 2月24日 02時54分

Around eight months into her pregnancy, Kiki Jordan felt disappointed in the prenatal care she’d been receiving at a nearby hospital.⁠⁠
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“As a Black woman, I didn’t feel like I was really seen,” Jordan, who is based in Oakland, California, told HuffPost. “I didn’t feel like I was being listened to. I was seeing a different provider every time I went in for my prenatal visits. I knew that I wasn’t going to know who would deliver my baby. I had these very short 15- to 30-minute visits, and there was no one speaking to me.”⁠⁠
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It was then that she decided to work with a midwife — a health care professional that shepherds a woman through pregnancy, labor, birth and the postpartum period at home. That decision changed her life.⁠⁠
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Jordan opened Birthland Midwifery at 40 years old with her partner, Anjali Sardeshmukh, another woman of color. Birthland’s mission is to make midwifery and high-quality prenatal at-home birth care financially accessible to women of color and low-income communities. Jordan estimates that around 80% of her clientele are Black women, whom she’s particularly passionate about serving — in large part because she knows that historically, the hospital birth system has failed Black women at every stage.⁠⁠
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The statistics are grim. Pregnant Black women are 45% more likely to die in the hospital than their white counterparts, regardless of socioeconomic status or education level, according to a study in the Journal of the American Heart Association. They are also 23% more likely to have a heart attack, the researchers found.⁠⁠
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Jordan believes racism and implicit bias are at the core of maternal health disparities between Black and white communities.⁠⁠
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“Black women encounter implicit bias from the moment they walk to the front desk,” Jordan said. “As they navigate a system that is not designed by them and where they may not be adequately integrated into it, they get shuffled through and lost.”⁠⁠
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Read more about Birthland at our link in bio. // 📷 @sbmaneyphoto

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