Comments on: Call for Submissions: Saving Our Lives: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth http://radicaldoula.com/2012/07/17/call-for-submissions-saving-our-lives-black-women-pregnancy-and-childbirth/ Mon, 13 May 2013 10:40:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Biany http://radicaldoula.com/2012/07/17/call-for-submissions-saving-our-lives-black-women-pregnancy-and-childbirth/#comment-12325 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:36:46 +0000 http://radicaldoula.com/?p=2155#comment-12325 Miriam–
Thank you for enlightening us with your perspective on these debates. I agree with you about our failure as a society to look at hospitals (an institution that upholds white supremacist capitalist patriarchy) and also our failure to value or conduct evidence based research. I do appreciate your thoughts as you truly break us away from these dichotomous views about whether one thing is better than the other. I think you provide us with a better perspective because these mainstream debates always fail to critique what is at the heart of the matter: capitalism. How we as a society privilege money more than (infant and maternal) health. I always enjoy your blog. And I cannot wait to be a (radical) doula!

Just wanted to share, I have a 4 month old son, I chose to have him at a birth center run by certified nurse midwives (not a hospital). I had a really great experience there but I think it was due to my support system (my partner and doula). My hope is for the next time to have a home birth. I would not say I am anti-hospital but my grave mistrust for the ways that medical professionals lack the knowledge for maternal and infant health makes it hard for me to trust they will do right.

Thank you for your writing, courage and passion!

Con Fuerza,
Biany
in Philadelphia, PA

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