Markeda
Appearances
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S23 E14: S23 Roundtable with MAMA founders Kristen & Markeda and Dr. Shannon M. Clark, MD, FACOG
Malik's law is actually HB 4553. It was introduced into house in March. It's basically requiring midwives to report outcomes related to like transfer, mortality, morbidity rates, because currently they are not required to report any of these. It's not a mandatory thing. It's a voluntary thing. And the reporting that they do is within like a closed system. So it's only available to the midwives.
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S23 E14: S23 Roundtable with MAMA founders Kristen & Markeda and Dr. Shannon M. Clark, MD, FACOG
It's not open to the public. The everyday consumer cannot view these statistics. So it leaves these birthing centers and these midwives to create, per se, their own statistics. We don't have anything to really back it up. That's basically what the law is for.
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S23 E14: S23 Roundtable with MAMA founders Kristen & Markeda and Dr. Shannon M. Clark, MD, FACOG
Like Kristen said, we originally thought that this was just a origins thing and these unfortunate events happened to us. And then realizing that this was definitely happening all over and it has been for a while. Many people are unaware that you can become a midwife without being a nurse or without even having medical background or knowledge.
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S23 E14: S23 Roundtable with MAMA founders Kristen & Markeda and Dr. Shannon M. Clark, MD, FACOG
So we just really want to advocate for mothers, for babies. And then as far as moving forward with creating bills and the legal aspect of everything, we talked about it and it rolled into place and happened very quickly. We are so, so excited about the bill that was introduced yesterday. this past month. And for the future of Mama, we are hoping to host support groups.
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S23 E14: S23 Roundtable with MAMA founders Kristen & Markeda and Dr. Shannon M. Clark, MD, FACOG
We are looking to host events, provide more resources, more education, more tools for moms, and just provide a safe place for moms and their babies. Even when it comes to mental health, postpartum is a very real thing. Grief, losing your child, losing the idea of what your birth was supposed to be like. So we're hoping to also help with the mental aspect as well.
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S23 E14: S23 Roundtable with MAMA founders Kristen & Markeda and Dr. Shannon M. Clark, MD, FACOG
Mama's definitely growing and we are excited about providing these resources to moms.
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S23 E14: S23 Roundtable with MAMA founders Kristen & Markeda and Dr. Shannon M. Clark, MD, FACOG
I appreciate the shameless plug. I appreciate it.
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S23 E14: S23 Roundtable with MAMA founders Kristen & Markeda and Dr. Shannon M. Clark, MD, FACOG
I will say that hearing the stories on the podcast was hard, even though I have already heard Kristen's and Amanda's story. Kristen dove into a few more details that I haven't heard as well as Amanda. And although I already knew these stories, they still made me tear up and it still made me think How did this happen? Even hearing the other stories from Brittany, the surrogate for Caitlin.
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S23 E14: S23 Roundtable with MAMA founders Kristen & Markeda and Dr. Shannon M. Clark, MD, FACOG
I couldn't either. And that was really an eye opener to just the character of these people at this birthing center and the facade that they put on for people.
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S23 E14: S23 Roundtable with MAMA founders Kristen & Markeda and Dr. Shannon M. Clark, MD, FACOG
Thank you so much, Dr. Clark, for being here and for listening to our stories. Thank you.