We have a vision that one day Black mothers are no longer disproportionately in danger during pregnancy and the first year after birth.
Race or ethnicity should not be standalone risk factors during the perinatal period.
Until then there is work to be done.
We promise to be here after the # stops trending.
Black women are 4 times more likely to die.
Black women in the UK have more than four times the risk of dying in pregnancy or up to six weeks postpartum compared with white women. This is down from five times in 2015-7
MMBRACE UK REPORT 2016-8
Their children are 2 times more likely to be stillborn.
Black women are twice as likely to have a stillborn baby than their white counterparts
J. Muglu et al., Risks of stillbirth and neonatal death with advancing gestation at term: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies of 15 million pregnancies, PLOS Medicine 2019