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Malik's law is actually HB 4553. It was introduced into house in March. It's basically requiring midwives to report outcomes related to like transfer, mortality, morbidity rates, because currently they are not required to report any of these. It's not a mandatory thing. It's a voluntary thing. And the reporting that they do is within like a closed system. So it's only available to the midwives.

It's not open to the public. The everyday consumer cannot view these statistics. So it leaves these birthing centers and these midwives to create, per se, their own statistics. We don't have anything to really back it up. That's basically what the law is for.

Like Kristen said, we originally thought that this was just a origins thing and these unfortunate events happened to us. And then realizing that this was definitely happening all over and it has been for a while. Many people are unaware that you can become a midwife without being a nurse or without even having medical background or knowledge.

So we just really want to advocate for mothers, for babies. And then as far as moving forward with creating bills and the legal aspect of everything, we talked about it and it rolled into place and happened very quickly. We are so, so excited about the bill that was introduced yesterday. this past month. And for the future of Mama, we are hoping to host support groups.

We are looking to host events, provide more resources, more education, more tools for moms, and just provide a safe place for moms and their babies. Even when it comes to mental health, postpartum is a very real thing. Grief, losing your child, losing the idea of what your birth was supposed to be like. So we're hoping to also help with the mental aspect as well.

Mama's definitely growing and we are excited about providing these resources to moms.

I appreciate the shameless plug. I appreciate it.

I will say that hearing the stories on the podcast was hard, even though I have already heard Kristen's and Amanda's story. Kristen dove into a few more details that I haven't heard as well as Amanda. And although I already knew these stories, they still made me tear up and it still made me think How did this happen? Even hearing the other stories from Brittany, the surrogate for Caitlin.

I couldn't either. And that was really an eye opener to just the character of these people at this birthing center and the facade that they put on for people.

Thank you so much, Dr. Clark, for being here and for listening to our stories. Thank you.

It was very vibrant. It was such a good vibe in there. And it was nice to connect with listeners, especially in light of season 23. It was awesome. We got to see Kristen and Amanda and their husbands showed up. So it was just a perfect time and place and an overall really nice vibe.

Yes, shout out to my parents, Suze and Jeff. Great support systems of mine, but also of the show, my mom. I remember I showed it to her when I first started listening and she's been an early subscriber ever since. So we love their support. But yeah, I'm Lily. I am another associate producer here at Something Was Wrong. I think this is my three-year anniversary here. So I started out as an intern.

I went to film school at Boston University, needed something to do over the summer. And I reached out to Tiffany and... Started out as an intern working on more social media. And then I was working part-time my senior year in a bit more of a production assistant setting. After I graduated, I'm here full-time. Amy and I help out with the associate producing.

So helping in all stages of production, organizing different documents we get, organizing the flow of the season, gathering the interview and turning them into transcripts and scripts. audio reviews, all of that stuff. I can't ask for a better team to work with. You guys are incredible.

I mean, yeah, her saying the hand that I played in it, she she created it. She played every part.

Talking about all these updates, I just can't help but come to all these similarities with them, despite having different methods or things that attract them to perpetuating this abuse. I mean, between Caitlin, Jess and Megan, it's a different kind of the same type of person.

That's your job. I think it was also interesting for me starting as a huge fan of your work and huge admiration for that. And then to going to work together and work for someone that I admire so much, I was kind of just happy to be there. And I was excited to do anything that was given. And being a young, employed person, I had no other idea outside of my job at Sweetgreen.

I didn't really know how a proper workplace functions. So I feel like it was a nice learning journey for both of us. But it's worked out so well.

It's perfect. But I also I do love those meetings, especially it's on a Monday and it kicks off the week in the best way. I don't really have Sunday scaries in the way that my other kind of more corporate friends have. And I feel like those sometimes three hour long meetings set it up in a nice way.

I totally agree. It's funny. Sometimes I'll be texting you guys and someone sends like a GIF or just a funny bitmoji. And then my friend will look over and be like, are you texting your boss and your coworkers? And it's a nice lighter way to approach this heavy work.

No, I was convinced that you guys had some fun time back a year ago. Like it was very convincing.