My story
I built EmpowerHer Voices from a story I almost didn't survive to tell, and the years of quiet healing that followed. This is the fuller story, in my own words.
On the podcast · Not From Here
Huda Altamimi died during the birth of her first daughter after an amniotic fluid embolism sent her into cardiac arrest. She was airlifted, given 40 blood transfusions, and woke up days later not knowing her own husband or that she'd had a baby. Everything she knows about that day, she pieced together years later from records she was too afraid to open. This is her story of surviving it, and the harder work of healing after.
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EmpowerHer Voices was born from my deeply personal journey through childbirth, survival, and years of postpartum healing. After experiencing an Amniotic Fluid Embolism during the birth of my first child, a rare and often fatal obstetric emergency, I quickly realized how many mothers suffer in silence, feeling unseen, unheard, and unsupported.
I'm not fully healed. But I'm able to live with it, and it's a part of me. It's who I am.
My own struggle to navigate recovery, being a new mom, and re-entering everyday life, revealed the urgent need for spaces where women can safely share their stories and feel empowered by their experiences.
Today, I continue my passion as a maternal health advocate and public health professional committed to reshaping the way mothers are supported before, during, and after childbirth. I serve on the Michigan Women's Health Initiative Patient & Community Action Board and have spoken on national maternal health panels and perinatal quality collaboratives in various states, using my experience as an AFE survivor to elevate patient voices and support meaningful change in maternal care.
Several years of advocacy work later, EmpowerHer Voices was founded, built on the belief that every mother's voice matters and that storytelling can save lives. Through EmpowerHer Voices, I empower mothers through storytelling, advocacy, and culturally sensitive support, with a mission to build safer, more equitable maternal health care for families in my community and beyond.
I hold a Master's in Public Health (MPH), grounding my advocacy in the systems that shape maternal outcomes, not just personal experience.
Certified through MoMMAs Voices (under the Preeclampsia Foundation), who later featured my story. It's a relationship I value deeply, and a path I point others toward: anyone can become certified as a Patient Family Partner through MoMMAs Voices.
I serve on the Patient & Community Action Board, bringing my lived experience directly into the rooms where maternal health decisions are made.
I've spoken on national maternal health panels and presented to healthcare professionals across 70+ hospitals through Perinatal Quality Collaboratives, using my voice as an AFE survivor to elevate patient voices and drive meaningful change.
“If I can help just one person, that's it. That's my purpose.”
In their words
“I wanted to share the good news, inshallah I'll be going for Umrah, and I owe it all to your vision board event. Subhanallah, how it all happened unexpectedly. I'll keep you in my duaa and perform an Umrah on your behalf, inshallah.”
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