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Eight months pregnant with my second child, I waddled into a nearby nail salon, desperate for a little pampering. “Mission accomplished,” I thought, as I sat and let my nails dry after a deluxe mani-pedi. I was feeling satisfied with myself when the woman sitting next to me sparked up a conversation. “Is this your first child?,” she asked. “No, my second,” I happily replied. Without a moment’s hesitation, she followed up: “Same fathers?” I shot her a terse “yes,” and turned away. I was shocked.
To some, this may seem innocuous—just a nosy woman asking an odd question. But it’s actually representative of so much more. As Black pregnant women, we face a long list of biases from the people we encounter everywhere we go—the grocery store, the doctor’s office and, yes, even the nail salon. Assumptions like:You have multiple baby-daddies.It’s disheartening to say the least.
The research is compelling, but the real-life anecdotes are even more powerful. One Black pregnant woman I spoke to remarked that, during her subway commute to work, people were more likely to crane their necks to see if she was wearing a wedding band than they were to offer her their seat. She felt like an object of curiosity, rather than a living, breathing person growing another human life inside of her.
The truth is that, while most pregnant people can focus on the well-being of themselves and their babies, Black women mustthink about superficial factors that may affect how they’re treated. These may seem like minor considerations, but the implications of bias in healthcare have a much more harmful effect than simply causing anger, hurt or embarrassment. It leads to prejudice in care, treatment, pain management and more. And the concern is even more dire for Black pregnant women.
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