The US government’s failure to support mothers begins early, with childbirth, an event that is more likely to kill women in the United States than in any other developed country—and the risk is three times higher for Black women.2 After giving birth, we have a quick session at the hospital with a lactation consultant, and then we are sent home, where we are left to google “good latch” and “mastitis” while a Niagara Falls of hormones cascades through our bodies.
