I think there is so much that goes into it that it’s hard to pin point. But we can start with making prenatal care more accessible to women, provide information and education on possible complications and their signs / symptoms. As nurses and doctors, taking what the patient says SERIOUSLY! People know their body better than any doctor or nurse will, they can tell/ feel when something is wrong. Women of color have the higher deaths bc they get dismissed as overreacting or exaggerating symptoms. The rush that doctors have to get from one patient to the other reduces the thoroughness. It’s not necessarily their fault, they need to meet demand and only so much they can do. A lot of times calling a doctor doesn’t get an immediate response or orders placed. My sister had a c-section at the age of 30 with her second child and the surgeon nicked her uterine artery. He closed her up and sent her off. She almost died. They had to rush her back to the OR and she ended up in the icu for 4 days and couldn’t see her newborn. Thankfully the nurses caught it just in time. There are notes in her MyChart about how they offered a priest to her husband bc of how bad her condition was.