Ellen sucker biography death

Her pregnancy, which was high risk, went well, but her labor and delivery had some unexpected complications.

62, when the cause of his death was listed as gangrene of the foot and exhaustion.

What should have been a happy experience quickly turned left when Ellen began to slip in and out of consciousness after giving birth and her husband, former politician and attorney Bakari Sellers , began to panic. Black women in the United States are three times more likely than their white counterparts to die in childbirth and no amount of money or education seems to make a difference in treatment.

Proceeds from her hair care line, Rucker Roots, go toward maternity health education and Ellen also talks about her experience as much as she can via her blog. Madame Noire caught up with Ellen to discuss her experience and the importance of advocacy. MadameNoire MN : One of the things you mentioned in your birth story that really stuck out to me, was that you made sure you found doctors who looked like you.

Can you speak to your experience with that? I did IVF to conceive my twins. So, that was my first encounter with switching to another doctor. She was an African American female.

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I just think that sometimes women, we know our bodies a little bit better. So I switched doctors and she got me pregnant. I had a personal relationship with this group of doctors and I was a patient of theirs several years back, but because of insurance reasons, I had switched to a different group. The practice is three African American women and I had a personal relationship with them and I just felt like it was important for me, because I was high risk, it was important for me to go back to them, because I knew that they would take my care seriously.

And they did.