.Osaka, who invited her daughter Shai in July 2023, isn't incorrect. Giving birth is distressing. The United States remains to possess the greatest fee of maternal fatalities of any high-income country. And also the rate is actually easily the greatest for Black girls. And for the girls that survive delivering, they experience a host of psychologically and also literally terrible postpartum problems. After possessing my very first daughter three years ago, I believed that I failed to recognize myself. I believed distant coming from my partner like a foreigner in my very own body. I battled with constant worry and also stress, and a total lack of self assurance in every choice I created. For Naomi Osaka, much of that played out in the public eye.