Covid home births: ‘Black mothers were already scared’

Mekiya, who is African American and works as a social worker, says that women of colour often aren’t listened to by doctors.
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She had a traumatic experience giving birth to her previous children in hospital and along with the additional risk of coronavirus decided to have her daughter at home with the help of Natalie Watson, co-founder of Steel City Midwives

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