, who recalled a traumatic trip to the emergency room when she wasn't taken seriously. Cottom explained that she was rushed to the hospital for extreme pain and bleeding when she was four months pregnant. But no one paid attention to her until after she bled into the chair, and even then, the doctor disregarded her concerns, telling her"spotting was normal, especially for someone as fat as [she] was.
It took her returning to the hospital after being sent home and Dr. Cottom to"beg and plead" before she was finally given an ultrasound. A series of incredibly callous and traumatic experiences later, Dr. Cottom gave birth to a daughter "What happened is both traumatic but not singular, it happened to a lot of Black women," Cottom said."At every step of the process, no one really took seriously that I knew what was happening to me.
Gammy and Mallory shared their own challenging experiences with pregnancy and childbirth, with Gammy recalling that she wasn't treated well during her pregnancy with Jada despite her father being the head of anesthesia at the hospital."I was denied the pain that I was having at the time," she said, recalling the hospital staff saying to her,"Oh, it's not that bad. Just be quiet.
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