Season 1 Ep 9 Birth Trauma and Racial Inequality within Maternal Healthcare with Illiyin Morrison

This week Emma and Grainne are joined by Midwife, Mentor, and Mother, Illiyin Morrison. Illy's profile has risen dramatically over the past year with her empowering, honest, and thought-provoking Instagram account @mixingmotherhood. She has spoken on many high-profile podcasts including Giovanna Fletcher's 'Happy Mum Happy Baby'. Illy is extremely passionate about birth education and facilitating healing from experiences that may not have been as positive as hoped for through birth debriefing. She offers courses on hypnobirthing and birth debrief courses which you can find via her website www.mixingupmotherhood.com and discusses the importance of these topics in this week's episode. The three discuss systemic racism, bias, and inequality within the maternal healthcare system and how this has led to the mortality of black, brown and mixed heritage women and birthing people and how change needs to and can be met. Further information on this can be found in the MMBRACE maternal report 2020 https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/assets/downloads/mbrrace-uk/reports/maternal-report-2020/MBRRACE-UK_Maternal_Report_Dec_2020_v10_ONLINE_VERSION_1404.pdf