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To be seen, heard, acknowledged and understood is an innate desire that we all crave as human beings.
Statistics have shown that the mortality rate of ''Black'' mothers in the hospital ward is up to 4 times higher than Caucasian mothers in the west. Was it always this way? Are ''Black '' female bodies deteriorating?
''Black'' mothers-to-be are increasingly turning away from a medical system with many disparities present, and resorting to alternative methods for birthing. What other safe and efficient resorts are out there?
In this episode I interview, sister Nicola Mahdiyya and sister Asiila Imani, two sisters in faith each from a different continent and both encounter life situations and circumstances that paves a way to link up via a common mentor in their journeys as an honourable, life- saving, empowering and altruistic profession working alongside mothers-to-be as Doulas. Who are the two sisters? What were those circumstances? What is a Doula? What does it mean? Does it have any negative connotations? And What's the difference between a Doula and a midwife? And what is their role in honouring this sacred stage of women and the new life that she carries?
The answers to all this and more. Listen to find out.