“I thought that conversation, overall, was a conversation of new beginnings,” Holland told the network.
“I think that that would have been one of the most luckiest babies ever, because she had so much love to give,” Holland added.
“As an adult, you make your own decisions,” Holland told NBC. “We probably would have handled everything differently to make sure everything was done properly," Holland added.
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Bowie, 32, was found dead in her bed on May 2 in her Winter Garden, Fla., home after authorities conducted a welfare check.
Eclampsia is a “rare but serious complication of preeclampsia,”according to the Cleveland Clinic, which notes that preeclampsia can cause high blood pressure and organ damage.
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Bowie was about eight months pregnant and was in labor at the time of her death, with a “well-developed fetus.” According to the autopsy, the 5-foot-9 inch Bowie weighed 96 pounds at the time of her death.
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The agent even offered Bowie — who had bipolar disorder, according to her autopsy — the opportunity to come to her Atlanta home so that she could keep a closer eye on the mother-to-be, she said.
Bowie’s death hasshined a light on maternal health in the United States, and the fact that Black women are three times as likely to die during their pregnancies than their White counterparts.
The New York Timesreports that studies have shown Black women are at greatest risk for pre-eclampsia in the United States, and that Bowie’s Olympic teammate, Allyson Felix, needed an emergency C-section due to pre-eclampsia.And in a recent Instagram post, Tianna Madison, a teammate of both Bowie and Felix, wrote that she also nearly died during pregnancy.
In her post, Madison referenced to the infamous “father of gynecology”J. Marion Sims, who for years was lauded for his efforts to advance the medical field before a reappraisal of his careershowed he carried out surgeries on enslaved women without anesthesia.
Sims' career has been compared to the Tuskegee Study — in which the U.S. government deliberately withheld treatment for syphilis from Black men without their knowledge — as something that has sowed mistrust among Black Americans toward the medical system.
source: people.com
