Glad this is finally being talked about in the media. A friend of mine and his wife had a horrendous experience with the birth of their son last year (both parents are black). It almost took my friend physically grabbing nurses to help his wife who was in pain and not well during her birth. The worst part was the hospital (John Radcliffe as they need to be named) tried to get them to not make a complaint as they knew they fucked up.
I feel like the BBC puts the call out for any negative stories from POC about their experiences with (insert institution here) to shape a story they had already decided to write.
I’ve heard from enough people to know that some of it is true for sure.
But I do also think that maternity services are more prone to treating everyone like an idiot (esp. if it’s your first and heaven forbid you ask questions, esp. if you are audibly a foreigner) not always based on your skin colour.
>”The staff would say ‘hello princess’, and while I was having contractions in a corridor a midwife walked past and said, ‘Oh, you’re definitely going to need an epidural’. I had never even met her before.
>”I was repeatedly ignored, they just thought I was a weak little Indian girl, who was unable to take pain.”
“Hello princess” is a racist microaggression?
Just out of curiosity – how many people in this thread actually have any recent experience with maternity services (first hand, second hand okay, your mother giving birth to you decades ago doesn’t count)?
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Sounds like : “Report alleges without evidence”
Glad this is finally being talked about in the media. A friend of mine and his wife had a horrendous experience with the birth of their son last year (both parents are black). It almost took my friend physically grabbing nurses to help his wife who was in pain and not well during her birth. The worst part was the hospital (John Radcliffe as they need to be named) tried to get them to not make a complaint as they knew they fucked up.
I feel like the BBC puts the call out for any negative stories from POC about their experiences with (insert institution here) to shape a story they had already decided to write.
I’ve heard from enough people to know that some of it is true for sure.
But I do also think that maternity services are more prone to treating everyone like an idiot (esp. if it’s your first and heaven forbid you ask questions, esp. if you are audibly a foreigner) not always based on your skin colour.
>”The staff would say ‘hello princess’, and while I was having contractions in a corridor a midwife walked past and said, ‘Oh, you’re definitely going to need an epidural’. I had never even met her before.
>”I was repeatedly ignored, they just thought I was a weak little Indian girl, who was unable to take pain.”
“Hello princess” is a racist microaggression?
Just out of curiosity – how many people in this thread actually have any recent experience with maternity services (first hand, second hand okay, your mother giving birth to you decades ago doesn’t count)?