Cecilia Saffold and Kristi Bohling-DaMetz
Recorded
June 8, 2023
Archived
June 8, 2023
36:48 minutes
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Id:
ddd001908
Description
Colleagues Cecilia Saffold [no age given] and Kristi Bohling-DaMetz [no age given] share how their experiences with their pregnancies shaped their view of health equity.Subject Log / Time Code
Cecilia (C) and Kristi (K) share how their upbringings shaped their paths to working in healthcare.
C talks about her experience at CMS Health Equity Conference and about her whole-person approach to health equity.
K discusses her experience in nursing and remembers the assumptions she was taught about different patients.
K and C begin to discuss motherhood and their experience with pregnancy. C remembers how her experience and knowledge were dismissed by her primary doctor and by the hospital workers where she gave birth.
C considers how Black women are not trusted about their own needs and knowledge, and discusses maternal mortality rates for Black women.
K remembers her experiences with her pregnancies in rural and urban hospitals.
C talks about different groups that train doulas and midwives and take a communal approach to healthcare.
K and C discuss maintaining optimism and hope for their daughters and the future of reproductive justice.
C remembers how she was told about one of her children’s chronic illnesses and how she hopes families are able to get life-affirming diagnoses and for practitioners to lead with hope.
Participants
- Cecilia Saffold
- Kristi Bohling-DaMetz