Pregnancy more perilous for black women in R.I.
By Madeleine ListJournal Staff Writer Posted Apr 27, 2019 at 3:14 PMUpdated Apr 27, 2019 at 3:15 PM Rhode Island health officials and community activists are working to improve care for pregnant black women, who face more maternity-related complications than their white peers, according to national and state data. Just as troubling, patients say, is the implicit bias they experienced from medical staff during labor and delivery. Ayo Henry remembers sitting in the emergency room after going into labor with her second baby in 2010. Her cesarean section wasn’t scheduled for another three days, but she’d started having contractions, and since she had given birth to her first child by C-section