Black And Ethnic Moms Needs Matter too!

According to the BMJ online Black Women and Ethnic women have increased risk of death during Birth and after due to many misconceptions and racial inconsistencies towards the group!

Ever wondered why the stats are so compelling and far reached from that of White women?

Well lets take a look and read into the reality! the harsh reality rather!

Black women in the UK are still more likely to die in childbirth than their white counterparts. Samara Linton explores why—and what’s being done to improve outcome.

The UK has one of the lowest maternal mortality rates in the world, but black women are still twice as likely as white women to die from pregnancy related causes.1 Historically, this disparity has been as high as fivefold, kickstarting initiatives such as Five X More to push for improved maternal outcomes in black women.23 Despite improvements in recent years, racial inequalities stubbornly persist.

Marian Knight, professor of maternal and child population health at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, leads MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries), which investigates the deaths of women and babies who die during pregnancy or shortly after pregnancy in the UK. She tells The BMJ, “Women from different ethnic groups are dying from the same causes but at disproportionately greater numbers.

We have to ask ourselves why?

I have also spoken to many black women who have told their stories about being ignored!

This is simply also due to Midwives and health professional lack of competence and also racial misconceptions that ''Oh black women are strong, they can handle it.. they will be okay''.

This has also filtered into the medical field and health service.

We need to understand that Black, Indian , Mixed raced and ethnic women are also Humans with feelings too, we also experience pain and many do also have a low threshold. Somewhere this racial misconception has been fed into the medical dwelling and have led many BAME women left with no medical treatment for pain relief and simply ignored !

It all starts from home and educating ourselves and knowing despite race we all have varied pain threshold!

Bump & Mamas UK