'No one was really listening to what I was saying,' Serena Williams wrote.
, has meant that she’s been vigilant about making sure her health history doesn’t repeat itself. It’s why, in an essay about her delivery and experience with motherhood for Elle, she says she rallied for herself when the symptoms of a clot began to crop up during childbirth — even after the continuous dismissal of a healthcare provider.Williams detailed how she realized something was wrong soon after giving birth to her daughter, Olympia.
“When I woke up from that surgery, in the hospital room with my parents and my in-laws, I felt like I was dying. They were trying to talk to me, and all I could think was, ‘I’m dying, I’m dying. Oh my God,’” she explained. Despite fearing that she would faint, Williams managed to get up from her hospital bed and out of her mother’s earshot to avoid worrying her to find her nurse that was on call.
Despite the experience with her nurse, Williams described her OBGYN as “amazing,” noting how the physician listened to her and never made her feel dismissed. In her essay, Williams noted how in the United States, Black people are nearly three times more likely to die during or after childbirth than those who are white.
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