Serena Williams Pregnancy Complications

Black women are three to four times more likely than white women to.

Serena williams pregnancy complications. Because of her history of blood clots and because she was off. Serena Williams opened up to Vogue about her scary post-birth experience. Tennis superstar Serena Williams in a recent Vogue profile disclosed her harrowing experience with serious postnatal complications.

There are health risks associated with pregnancy and childbirth but theres also a racial bias that Serena wanted to publicly talk about. Serena Williams opens up about her scary birth and postpartum complications. Williams coughed frequently due to the embolisms and the coughs were forceful enough to cause her C-section wound to rupture.

According to Vogue Serena started experiencing trouble breathing after her C-section so she told a nurse what was happening. Williams experienced serious complications after giving birth and needed two more surgeries after the C-section. Serena Williams shares her experience with postnatal complications.

Black women are 49 percent more likely than whites to deliver prematurely and closely related black infants are twice as likely as white babies to die before their first birthday. Williams the clots were only the beginning of her complications. She told the BBC that she had received excellent care overall for her postpartum complications.

But its also possible that Williams could have faced delivery complications herself. In January 2017 two months into her pregnancy tennis superstar Serena Williams competed in and won the Australian Open. After a somewhat-secret pregnancy Serena Williams welcomed Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.

By emergency C-section last September. Serena Williams understands that. Lockhart writes in Vox illustrates not only the potential risks of childbirth but also racial inequity in maternal care.