Black mothers and families are calling for the doulas for support

Montgomery, Ala. (WSFA) – the rate of black maternal mortality continues to grow in the United States at an alarming rate. Recent numbers in Centers for disease control and prevention It shows that black women are still the only racial group that observes an increase in pregnancy deaths.

Black women are now 3.5 times more likely to die, due to pregnancy than white women, now 2.5 times in 2019.

“They have many options that they may not be told, but this is true for all the women who enter our maternity system,” said Gabrielle Daniels.

Daniels is a black doan from Montgomery, Alabama. Doulas are trained professionals who support their customers through work, delivery and post-partum. A partner in the most important and often the most frightening time, in a mother’s life. It encourages all the mothers who expect to research the many options available for them: doulas, midwives, obgyns, family practitioners and more.

“I tell them that it is not just a title, not just a twice, or an ob or a midwife. We need to know what their real philosophy is. What does that practitioner think? She said.

Like the Doula, She supports All families and show to provide a healthy and happy pregnancy and a post-partum experience, both in hospitals and at home. She said she was working with several black families in our area, many of them sought to hire black two.

“And what I have seen is when the black mothers or the Afro -American mothers come to me and look for a duula, very often, looking for a twist to show them,” she said.

While the data was largely absent on the doulas, the new data show that the waiting mothers were matching with the doulas “Better results at birth“For Daniels, which has a wide experience in public health, public education, theology and work at birth, these numbers inspire it to do more.

“I started working as a doula in 2019,” she said. “I pray and I was looking for ways to serve mothers and children and I knew this was a direct way to serve. My goal and my dolia unit to help these mothers truly see how much power they have, how many options they have and how they can reach all this. And for me, I just hope they can help them use these choices to put them in a power position to have a great experience. “

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