On January 17th, I had the privilege to take part in the Cleveland Public Library At the Table series, a community dialogue series engaging with local authors, advocates, and achievers.
It was an extraordinary experience to speak at the beautiful Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch on Mathey Girls and maternal health awareness. It was such an honor to be joined by Da’na M. Langford from Village of Healing, a community health center focusing on black maternal health, and UH OBs Susan Lasch and Steve Porter. I had not seen Drs. Lasch and Porter since 2018, and I am so grateful that I was able to thank them in person for saving my life when I gave birth to my son.
Thank you to everyone who braved the snow squall to join the discussion! I personally learned a lot—from the trepidation that OBs feel all the way through their patients’ pregnancies, to the amazing things that Village of Healing is doing for its patients. I especially appreciated that Village of Healing sees both the mother and the baby during the postnatal follow-ups. They truly save lives doing this, as Da’na related one recent experience where they caught a mother’s life-threatening blood pressure issue this way.
I have spent the last couple of weeks alternating between excitement for this event and trepidation about speaking so personally and vulnerably. I held it together (yay me!), and feel so so grateful I could share my story.
Some photos from the event are below (credit Catherine Young at Cleveland Public Library); a reel of all the photos is here and a full recording of the event is here.
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