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...