A new L.A. birthing center aims to bring Black women the comfort of feeling valued and understood.
If you’re a Black woman trying to bring a child into the world, those stats are more than abstractions. The threat can feel very real, making pregnancy and childbirth seem like life-or-death ordeals.resonated so deeply among Black women. Williams suffered blood clots in her lungs after giving birth to her daughter by caesarean section in 2017. She knew from experience how serious, even deadly, that could be.
“It’s not just about being able to be present,” Cavil said. “But about having a say in the energy and the space you’re bringing your child into.” But no one rushed her or panicked. “She was born in a dimly lit room, surrounded by love, with the sound of water running and Alicia Keys playing in the background,” Cavil recalled. And the new family spent their first night together in the birth center’s bedroom.The more a pregnant photographer spent documenting midwives, she began to reconsider where to give birth to her own child.
Midwives Kimberly Durdin, left, and Allegra Hill assist Gladys Sanchez as she labors next to a birthing tub on April 25. Tamara Robertson, a military vet, was one of those women. All four of her children had been born in hospitals — two while she was in the service — yet she never shook the feeling that she might be in jeopardy.After she left the Navy and returned to Los Angeles, Robertson took a class Durdin taught, and that launched her career as a doula. So when she was expecting her fifth child last year, she wanted Durdin at the birth. “You are going to catch my baby,” she told the midwife.
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