Tatyana Ali Shares Details About Her 'Traumatic' First Birth and 'Experience with Institutional Bias'
When she gave birth to her second child in August 2019, Ali said the anxiety she had with her firstborn came back. “The fear came back: ‘How are we going to do this? What is it going to be like? It can’t be like what it was before. How do we prevent that?’ “ Ali says she “started to realize and recognize that my story fits really neatly into the Black maternal health story.” The actress planned for “all-natural, home birth, water birth” for her second baby, son Alejandro Vaughn, but she ultimately underwent a c-section at the hospital. “When it came down to it, I ended u...