When I gave birth for the first time, my concerns were dismissed by my medical care providers. I put it down to my age, as I was only 18 at the time, rather than my skin colour.
But as a new survey finds that a quarter of Black women experience discrimination in the NHS – how, in particular, on maternity wards, Black mothers are denied the pain relief, such as epidurals, routinely given to our white counterparts, and that we are up to four times more likely to die in childbirth – I’m not so sure.
