869
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Black mothers’ birthing experiences: in search of birthing justice

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 46-60 | Received 30 Aug 2021, Accepted 05 Jan 2022, Published online: 09 Mar 2022

References

  • Admon, Lindsay K., Tyler Winkelman, Kara Zivin, Mishka Terplan, Jill M. Mhyre, and Vanessa K. Dalton. 2018. “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Incidence of Severe Maternal Morbidity in the United States, 2012–2015.” Obstetrics & Gynecology 132 (5): 1158–1166. doi:10.1097/AOG.0000000000002937.
  • Berry, Judith A. 2009. “Nurse Practitioner/Patient Communication Styles in Clinical Practice.” The Journal for Nurse Practitioners 5 (7): 508–515. doi:10.1016/j.nurpra.2009.02.019.
  • Black Woman’s Health Imperative. 2018. “Postpartum Depression While Black.” https://bwhi.org/2018/04/20/postpartum-depression-while-black/.
  • Caldwell, Christine J., and Lynn McCullagh. 2019. “Recent Data Indicate That Black Women are at Greater Risk of Severe Morbidity and Mortality From Postpartum Hemorrhage, Both Before and After Adjusting for Comorbidity.” Evidence-Based Nursing 22 (2): 57–70. doi:10.1136/ebnurs-2018-102987.
  • Centers for Disease Control. 2019. “Infant mortality in the U.S.” https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/infantmortality.htm#:∼:text=In%202016%2C%20infant%20mortality%20rates%20by%20race%20and,7.4%20Hispanic%3A%205.0%20Non-Hispanic%20white%3A%204.9%20Asian%3A%203.6.
  • Chidi, Erica, and Erica P. Cahill. 2020, October 2. “Protecting Your Birth: A Guide For Black Mothers.” The New York Times. file:///C:/Users/bresnah1/Documents/Black%20Mothers/ concordance/Protecting%20Your%20Birth%20A%20Guide%20For%20Black%20Mothers%20-%20The%20New%20York%20Times.pdf.
  • Davis, Dána-Ain. 2019. “Obstetric Racism: The Racial Politics of Pregnancy, Labor, and Birthing.” Medical Anthropology 38 (7): 560–573. doi:10.1080/01459740.2018.1549389.
  • Farzadnia, Sina, and Howard Giles. 2015. “Patient-Provider Interaction: A Communication Accommodation Theory Perspective.” International Journal of Society, Culture & Language 31 (2): 7–34. ISSN 2329-2210.
  • Glover, Kenya. 2021. “Can You Hear Me? How Implicit Bias Creates a Disparate Impact in Maternal Healthcare for Black Women.” Campbell Law Review 43 (1): 243–253. https://scholarship.law.campbell.edu/cir.
  • Gyamfi-Bannerman, Cynthia, Sindhu K. Srinivas, Jason D. Wright, Dena Goffman, Zainab Siddiq, Mary E. D’Alton, and Alexander M. Friedman. 2018. “Postpartum Hemorrhage Outcomes and Race.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 219 (2): 185–1e1. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2018.04.052.
  • Halpern, Jodi. 2001. From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Happel-Parkins, Alison, and Katharina A. Azim. 2016. “At Pains to Consent: A Narrative Inquiry into Women's Attempts of Natural Childbirth.” Women and Birth 29 (4): 310–320. doi:10.1016/j.wombi.2015.11.004.
  • Hardeman, Rachel R., J’Mag Karbeah, and Katy B. Kozhimannil. 2020. “Applying a Critical Race Lens to Relationship-Centered Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth: An Antidote to Structural Racism.” Birth 47 (1): 3–7. doi:10.1111/birt.12462.
  • Hayes, Andrew F. 2009. “Beyond Baron and Kenny: Statistical Mediation Analysis in the New Millennium.” Communication Monographs 76 (4): 408–420. XXX1.
  • Knighton, Joi-Sheree, Jardin Dogan, Candice Hargons, and Danelle Stevens-Watkins. 2020. “Superwoman Schema: A Context for Understanding Psychological Distress among Middle-Class African American Women who Perceive Racial Microaggressions.” Ethnicity &Health. Advanced Online Publication: 1–17. XXX2.
  • Liese, Kylea L., Robbie Davis-Floyd, Karie Stewart, and Melissa Cheyney. 2021. “Obstetric Iatrogenesis in the United States: The Spectrum of Unintentional Harm, Disrespect, Violence, and Abuse.” Anthropology & Medicine. Advanced Online Publication, 1–17. doi:10.1080/13648470.2021.1938510.
  • Mann, Susan, Lisa M. Hollier, Kimberlee McKay, and Haywood Brown. 2020. “What We Can Do About Maternal Mortality—And How to Do It Quickly.” Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey 75 (4): 217–218. doi:10.1097/01.ogx.0000659584.47546.72.
  • Martin, Caroline Hollins, and Valerie Fleming. 2011. “The Birth Satisfaction Scale.” International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 24 (2): 124–135. XXX3.
  • McLemore, Monica R., Molly R. Altman, Norlissa Cooper, Shanell Williams, Larry Rand, and Linda Franck. 2018. “Health Care Experiences of Pregnant, Birthing and Postnatal Women of Color at Risk for Preterm Birth.” Social Science & Medicine 201 (1): 127–135. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.02.013.
  • Mena-Tudela, Desirée, Víctor Manuel González-Chordá, Francisco Javier Soriano-Vidal, Teresa Bonanad-Carrasco, Laura Centeno-Rico, Rafa Vila-Candel, and Enrique Castro-Sánchez. 2020. “Changes in Health Sciences Students’ Perception of Obstetric Violence After an Educational Intervention.” Nurse Education Today 88 (2): 1–8. XXX4.
  • Minehart, Rebecca D., Allison S. Bryant, Jaleesa Jackson, and Jaime L. Daly. 2021. “Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Pregnancy-Related Morbidity and Mortality.” Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics 48 (1): 31–51. XXX5.
  • Müller, Evamaria, Jördis M. Zill, Jörg Dirmaier, Martin Härter, and Isabelle Scholl. 2014. “Assessment of Trust in Physician: A Systematic Review of Measures.” PloS one 9 (9): e106844. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106844.
  • NASPOG (North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology). 2021. “Obstetric Racism: Black Women and Medical Encounters.” https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=dP6uDgSmoMU.
  • National Partnership for Women and Families. 2018. “Issue Brief: Black Women’s Maternal Health: A Multifaceted Approach to Addressing Persistent and Dire Health Disparities.”https://www.nationalpartnership.org/search.jsp?query=black+women%27s+maternal+health&x=0&y=0.
  • Noursi, Samia, Bani Saluja, and Leah Richey. 2021. “Using the Ecological Systems Theory to Understand Black/White Disparities in Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in the United States.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 8 (3): 661–669. doi:10.1007/s40615-020-00825-4.
  • Oparah, Julia Chinyere, and Alicia D. Bonaparte, eds. 2015. Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth. New York: Routledge.
  • Owens, Deirdre Cooper, and Sharla M. Fett. 2019. “Black Maternal and Infant Health: Historical Legacies of Slavery.” American Journal of Public Health 109 (10): 1342–1345. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305243.
  • Platonova, Elena A., Haiyan Qu, and Jan Warren-Findlow. 2019. “Patient-Centered Communication: Dissecting Provider Communication.” International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 32 (2): 534–546. doi:10.1108/IJHCQA-02-2018-0027.
  • Rigaud, Addisa Z. 2021. “How We Care Matters: Reproductive Justice and the Black Maternal Health Crisis.” Tapestries: Interwoven Voices of Local and Global Identities 10 (1): 5–15. XXX6.
  • Ross, Loretta J. 2017. “Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism.” Souls 19 (3): 286–314. doi:10.1080/10999949.2017.1389634.
  • Salaudeen, Aisha. 2020. “Why Black Women are More Likely to have Fibroids than any other Race Group.” https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/africa/fibroids-awareness-african-women-intl/index.html.
  • Salow, Arturo D., Lindsay R. Pool, William A. Grobman, and Kiarri N. Kershaw. 2018. “Associations of Neighborhood-Level Racial Residential Segregation with Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 218 (3): 351–3e1. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2018.01.022.
  • Salter, Cynthia L., Abisola Olaniyan, Dara D. Mendez, and Judy C. Chang. 2021. “Naming Silence and Inadequate Obstetric Care as Obstetric Violence is a Necessary Step for Change.” Violence Against Women 27 (8): 1019–1027. doi:10.1177/1077801221996443.
  • Scott, Karen A., Laura Britton, and Monica R. McLemore. 2019. “The Ethics of Perinatal Care for Black Women: Dismantling the Structural Racism in “Mother Blame” Narratives.” The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing 33 (2): 108–115. XXX7.
  • Shoemaker, Katherine, and Carly Parnitzke Smith. 2019. “The Impact of Patient-Physician Alliance on Trust Following an Adverse Event.” Patient Education and Counseling 102 (7): 1342–1349. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2019.02.015.
  • Sister Song. 2021. Reproductive Justice. https://www.sistersong.net/reproductive-justice.
  • Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 2004. “Righting Wrongs.” South Atlantic Quarterly 103 (3): 542–550.
  • Street, Jr., Richard L., Gregory Makoul, Neeraj K. Arora, and Ronald M. Epstein. 2009. “How Does Communication Heal? Pathways Linking Clinician–Patient Communication to Health Outcomes.” Patient Education and Counseling 74 (3): 295–301. XXX8.
  • Suojanen, Krista, Kirby Woodall, Joshua R. Hammonds, Daphne Monie, Melissa Scribani, Nicole Krupa, Paul Jenkins, Henry Weil, and Joshua J. Frye. 2018. Teaching Future Doctors to Communicate: A Communication Intervention for Medical Students in Their Clinical Year.” Journal of Communication in Healthcare 11 (4): 263–277. XXX9.
  • Valdes, Elise G. 2021. “Examining Cesarean Delivery Rates By Race: A Population-Based Analysis Using the Robson Ten-Group Classification System.” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 8 (4): 844–851. doi:10.1007/s40615-020-00842-3.
  • Vedam, Saraswathi, Kathrin Stoll, Nicholas Rubashkin, Kelsey Martin, Zoe Miller-Vedam, Hermine Hayes-Klein, and Ganga Jolicoeur. 2017. “The Mothers on Respect (MOR) Index: Measuring Quality, Safety, and Human Rights in Childbirth.” SSM-Population Health 3 (1): 201–210. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.01.005.
  • Vedam, Saraswathi, Kathrin Stoll, Tanya Khemet Taiwo, Nicholas Rubashkin, Melissa Cheyney, Nan Strauss, and Monica McLemore. 2019. “The Giving Voice to Mothers Study: Inequity and Mistreatment During Pregnancy and Childbirth in the United States.” Reproductive Health 16 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1186/s12978-019-0729-2.
  • Ward, Paul. 2018. “Trust and Communication in a Doctor-Patient Relationship: A Literature Review.” Archives of Medicine 3 (3): 36–42. doi:10.4172/2472-1654.100146.
  • Woods-Giscombé, Cheryl L. 2010. “Superwoman Schema: African American Women’s Views on Stress, Strength, and Health.” Qualitative Health Research 20 (5): 668–683. doi:10.1177/1049732310361892.
  • Yannekis, Gia, Molly Passarella, and Scott Lorch. 2020. “Differential Effects of Delivery Hospital on Mortality and Morbidity in Minority Premature and Low Birth Weight Neonates.” Journal of Perinatology 40 (3): 404–411. doi:10.1038/s41372-019-0423-9.
  • Zhang, Ming, Philip Wan, Kenneth Ng, Kurnvir Singh, Tzu Hsuan Cheng, Ivan Velickovic, Mudar Dalloul, and David Wlody. 2020. “Preeclampsia Among African American Pregnant Women: An Update on Prevalence, Complications, Etiology, and Biomarkers.” Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey 75 (2): 111–120. XXX10.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.