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Birth Beyond Survival: Black Mothers, Obstetric Violence, and the Fight for Dignity in Birth
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ISBN13: 9798185346556
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 3 2026
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 3 2026
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For generations, Black women have entered delivery rooms carrying more than life inside their bodies. They carry history. They carry fear. They carry the unspoken understanding that even in moments meant to celebrate motherhood, survival is never guaranteed. When Nyla Carter enters one of Washington D.C.'s top hospitals to give birth to her first child, she expects pain, uncertainty, and the overwhelming beauty of becoming a mother. She does not expect violence.
During a traumatic labor, Nyla is restrained by medical staff, ignored when she pleads for answers, and forced into an emergency procedure that leaves her emotionally shattered and separated from her newborn son. But the deepest wound comes afterward - when the hospital documents her terror as aggression and labels her combative. As Nyla begins uncovering the horrifying truth about racial bias inside America's healthcare system, she discovers she is far from alone. Across the country, Black mothers are sharing stories of dismissal, humiliation, neglect, and obstetric violence hidden behind institutional language and protected by powerful systems. What begins as one woman's fight to reclaim her voice becomes something much larger: A reckoning. A movement. A battle over who gets believed in America - and who gets buried beneath statistics.
Emotionally gripping, socially urgent, and painfully relevant, Birth Beyond Survival is a powerful novel about Black motherhood, medical racism, generational trauma, and the courage required to tell the truth when entire systems depend on silence. Some women survive childbirth.
Some survive the system. And some decide survival is no longer enough.
Emotionally gripping, socially urgent, and painfully relevant, Birth Beyond Survival is a powerful novel about Black motherhood, medical racism, generational trauma, and the courage required to tell the truth when entire systems depend on silence. Some women survive childbirth.
Some survive the system. And some decide survival is no longer enough.
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