Serena Williams Is Helping Expecting Mothers
During Serena’s pregnancy, baby Olympia’s heartrate plunged. An emergency cesarean section was performed, and Williams’ delivered her first child.
Williams said that due to a previous sports injury that she’d endured, she was able to self diagnose and hypothesize that she had blood clots in the arteries of her lungs.
Since that life-altering experience, the 37-year-old has made speaking out about comprehensive care for mothers particularly mothers of color her new platform. Which is why it didn’t come as a surprise to her fans when it was announced that she’d decided to invest in a Black owned startup called Mahmee.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that Black mothers are three to four times more likely to die from giving birth compared to other racial groups, a statistic that Mahmee hopes to directly address and diminish.
According to Mahmee’s company website, it is a “Management platform that makes it easy for payers, providers, and patients to coordinate comprehensive prenatal and postpartum healthcare from anywhere.
