0:00

You Great,

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I'm safe with these people.

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They're professionals. If anything was

0:08

to go wrong, they would

0:10

recognize it as it was

0:12

happening or before it was

0:15

happening. I believe my body

0:17

will do what it's supposed

0:19

to do. That's why I chose

0:21

Midwifery over the route of choosing

0:24

an OBGYN doctor. I thought the

0:26

birth center would be a happy medium

0:28

between the hospital setting

0:30

and the home birth

0:32

setting. We assumed that

0:35

these people were professionals that

0:37

were being regulated by the

0:40

state of Texas. They claimed

0:42

to be upheld to these

0:45

really high standards of care.

0:47

I did a lot of research

0:49

and found a birth center in

0:52

Dallas. Little did we know it

0:54

would turn out to be a

0:56

total nightmare. I had spots in

0:58

my vision. Jennifer told me

1:01

that, oh, that's nothing to

1:03

be worried about. It's not

1:05

in my chart, but I was

1:07

leaking maconium all night. I

1:09

said, is it illegal? And

1:11

they nodded. Like, yeah, it's

1:14

illegal. Then when I was

1:16

taking the screenshots, that's when

1:18

I realized, oh my gosh,

1:21

they changed something. To have

1:23

a student taking care of

1:25

someone without their preceptor there.

1:28

to me is below the

1:30

standard of care. That is

1:33

putting your client at a

1:35

huge risk. And this is

1:37

when all hell breaks loose. This

1:39

is a life-threatening

1:42

emergency. If we don't

1:44

deliver this baby in

1:46

the next few minutes,

1:48

you are risking serious,

1:50

serious harm and death.

1:53

Yeah. The death was a homicide, but

1:55

no, the midwife was not prosecuted in

1:57

any way. And as far as

1:59

I know continues to practice

2:01

with no repercussion. They had

2:04

to do CPR. He didn't

2:06

have oxygen for so long

2:08

that he didn't have any

2:11

brain activity. So my healthy

2:13

seven-pound baby that was healthy

2:15

throughout my entire pregnancy is

2:17

now born with no brain

2:20

activity and is in my

2:22

youth. There's no question that

2:24

in the United States is

2:26

a maternal health crisis. How

2:29

could you do that as

2:31

another woman pray upon someone's

2:33

desire to take their autonomy

2:36

and their body back from

2:38

this patriarchal system that we

2:40

live in? There's a quote

2:42

that says, at some point,

2:45

we need to stop pulling

2:47

people out of the river

2:49

and travel upstream. and discover

2:51

why they're falling in the

2:54

first place. They didn't have

2:56

a certificate of occupancy for

2:58

the clinic in Dallas. We

3:00

knew that they were changing

3:03

birth records. We started reporting

3:05

those things. I knew what

3:07

had happened, should not have

3:10

happened. I knew that if

3:12

this had happened to me,

3:14

it probably happened to other

3:16

people, and I had already

3:19

made up my mind that

3:21

I was going to do

3:23

whatever I can to. help

3:25

other people from this tragic

3:28

and horrific event that has

3:30

happened to me.