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A Bedford-Stuyvesant family celebrated Christine Fields, who died while giving birth during an emergency C-section at Woodhull Hospital last November.

Friday would have been her 31st birthday.

Fields leaves behind three children, her fiancé and her mother.

According to City Health records, Black women are more than four times likely to die from childbirth complications than white women in New York.

His mother said she wants her daughter to be more than statistic, she wants her to be remembered by her smile and her loving heart.

“I just miss my daughter so much and it would’ve been her 31st birthday, 31,” Denene Witherspoon. “She left at 30, so I celebrate her today and just bring some awareness about maternal mortality and that this is just an ongoing thing that has to be helped and stopped.”

The family has a pending lawsuit against the hospital, which is run by New York Health systems.

While they can't comment on the lawsuit, they say the the maternal mortality rates among women of color unacceptable and they are committed to addressing this disparity.