Today and announced an expansion of our citywide doula program and midwifery initiative to reduce maternal and infant health inequities. The time for birth equity is NOW.🧵
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Too many NYC families experience life-threatening complications from childbirth, and even loss of life of the birthing person or their child. We must hold ourselves and health care delivery organizations accountable to our anti-racism mission and make health equity a realty.
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For too long, barriers stood between doulas and the families who would benefit most from their support.
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We need to support birthing people through all aspects of their birthing experience – perhaps the most beautiful and personal gift we can share with birthing people as they navigate the groundbreaking life changing experience of creating life. That is what doulas do.
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The urgency of this moment is clear. Mortality rates of birthing people are too high, and babies born to Black and Puerto Rican mothers in this city are three times more likely to die in their first year of life than babies born to non-Hispanic White birthing people.
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At ’s Neighborhood Health Action Centers in Brownsville in Brooklyn, East Harlem and Tremont in the Bronx, families have a safe, welcoming and supportive space to be connected to resources.
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These include childbirth education, newborn care classes, parenting classes, breastfeeding support groups and free resources like cribs, car seat distribution and diapers. Even as provides these services and resources, we know we cannot realize change on our own.
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Expanding access to doulas and the quality care they provide can save lives and will make a difference for hundreds of NYC families.
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Its so urgent that you can't shelve the performative politics for 2 minutes and communicate clearly...
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Woman is not a dirty word. Be inclusive without erasing women’s words from the debate. It’s insulting.
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So white women are reduced to non Hispanic birthing people. The systemic erasure of white as a race/ethnicity is something that really seems to be going unnoticed.
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