Dr. Ndidiya Maka Amutah-Onukagha

Do you acknowledge your family members in the room? Do you give a nod to the doula who's watching the situation play out? Do you check in with the birthing person? How are you feeling? How's your pain management? These are small things that clinicians and nurses who are bedside can do to really create an atmosphere of safety. And then obviously delivering the highest, best quality health care.

Do you acknowledge your family members in the room? Do you give a nod to the doula who's watching the situation play out? Do you check in with the birthing person? How are you feeling? How's your pain management? These are small things that clinicians and nurses who are bedside can do to really create an atmosphere of safety. And then obviously delivering the highest, best quality health care.

If someone is experiencing blood loss, it could be a hemorrhage. We should consider it as such. It's just the delays in care. It's the wait and see. It's the we'll put in an order later. It's we'll look into this at another time. All these seemingly small occurrences in labor and delivery and postpartum can have life altering consequences. That's the interesting thing about this work. It's not.

If someone is experiencing blood loss, it could be a hemorrhage. We should consider it as such. It's just the delays in care. It's the wait and see. It's the we'll put in an order later. It's we'll look into this at another time. All these seemingly small occurrences in labor and delivery and postpartum can have life altering consequences. That's the interesting thing about this work. It's not.

If someone is experiencing blood loss, it could be a hemorrhage. We should consider it as such. It's just the delays in care. It's the wait and see. It's the we'll put in an order later. It's we'll look into this at another time. All these seemingly small occurrences in labor and delivery and postpartum can have life altering consequences. That's the interesting thing about this work. It's not.

one person. It's not a policy. It's a system. The system is inherently broken and biased. Some people will say the system is operating quite fine for who it's designed to operate for, and I can agree with that as well, but it's just a dysfunctional system.

one person. It's not a policy. It's a system. The system is inherently broken and biased. Some people will say the system is operating quite fine for who it's designed to operate for, and I can agree with that as well, but it's just a dysfunctional system.

one person. It's not a policy. It's a system. The system is inherently broken and biased. Some people will say the system is operating quite fine for who it's designed to operate for, and I can agree with that as well, but it's just a dysfunctional system.

And I think our ability to penetrate that at different places through advocacy, training, building relationships with clinicians, centering lived experiences, honoring people's birthing requests, collaborating with doulas and midwives. That's really what we need to be doing. It's not one place we can target.

And I think our ability to penetrate that at different places through advocacy, training, building relationships with clinicians, centering lived experiences, honoring people's birthing requests, collaborating with doulas and midwives. That's really what we need to be doing. It's not one place we can target.

And I think our ability to penetrate that at different places through advocacy, training, building relationships with clinicians, centering lived experiences, honoring people's birthing requests, collaborating with doulas and midwives. That's really what we need to be doing. It's not one place we can target.

It's this more multifaceted blanket approach that takes everybody tapping in at your level of need, your level of expertise, what's within your wheelhouse. All of that is necessary in this conversation.

It's this more multifaceted blanket approach that takes everybody tapping in at your level of need, your level of expertise, what's within your wheelhouse. All of that is necessary in this conversation.

It's this more multifaceted blanket approach that takes everybody tapping in at your level of need, your level of expertise, what's within your wheelhouse. All of that is necessary in this conversation.

I think the best thing for policymakers is to listen to their base. We have really powerful lived experience stories that we hear. We do a lot of advocacy here at my center, not only at the local level, but our state house where they're all the time supporting legislation that's being introduced. But also at the federal level, I think that's really where the rubber meets the road.

I think the best thing for policymakers is to listen to their base. We have really powerful lived experience stories that we hear. We do a lot of advocacy here at my center, not only at the local level, but our state house where they're all the time supporting legislation that's being introduced. But also at the federal level, I think that's really where the rubber meets the road.

I think the best thing for policymakers is to listen to their base. We have really powerful lived experience stories that we hear. We do a lot of advocacy here at my center, not only at the local level, but our state house where they're all the time supporting legislation that's being introduced. But also at the federal level, I think that's really where the rubber meets the road.

Are we able to talk to our elected officials that we put in office that work for us about what our needs are? I tell people all the time, advocacy is skill and it's an art, but anyone can do it. So if you're in a position to call your legislative office, I'm a constituency, I live in your zip code. Here are the issues I'm prioritizing.

Are we able to talk to our elected officials that we put in office that work for us about what our needs are? I tell people all the time, advocacy is skill and it's an art, but anyone can do it. So if you're in a position to call your legislative office, I'm a constituency, I live in your zip code. Here are the issues I'm prioritizing.

Are we able to talk to our elected officials that we put in office that work for us about what our needs are? I tell people all the time, advocacy is skill and it's an art, but anyone can do it. So if you're in a position to call your legislative office, I'm a constituency, I live in your zip code. Here are the issues I'm prioritizing.