Posted on 05/12/2017 3:44:55 PM PDT by SMGFan
When you think about fatalities during childbirth, your mind may immediately leap to infant deaths. But although it’s much safer to give birth in America now than say, 100 years ago, women are dying from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes at a higher rate than any other country in the developed world.
An in-depth investigation into maternal mortality by NPR and ProPublica highlights the tragic story of a neonatal nurse who died less than a day after giving birth in the hospital where she works. It’s a tale more common in this country than you might think, even with medical innovations and improved living standards in the modern era. While we highly recommend reading NPR and ProPublica’s investigative report in its entirety, here are just a few of the things we learned about maternal mortality in the U.S.:
700 to 900 women die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes every year in the U.S.: And about 65,000 women nearly die, the investigation found, resulting in the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world. Of those, 60% are preventable, according to an analysis by the CDC Foundation.
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Yes ---- I saw that.
And the heightened risk factors for ectopic pregnancies include:
Yes.
And the twist is when abortophiles are touting the “safety”of abortion they use stats that “include”women who have died from abortion comps.
“abortion is safer than childbirth”
Consider also “most” not all abortions in the USA take place in the first trimester so abortion related maternal deaths are in the first 3 months of the CDC specified time period. IF abortion deaths in the first six months are compared with pregnancy related (non abortion) deaths in the first six months we would see some interesting numbers. But the reporting was designed to produce the results desired.
BTW according to the CDC the majority of illegal abortions prior to 1973 legalization were performed by physicians. Roe vs Wade made abortion legal not safer
Glad to make your day:-) I think we all do good sometimes, either by accident or premeditated :-)
One might say that maternal mortality strongly correlates with age and with a set of “life choices.” This is not to say there are no maternal deaths that appear independent of other expected factors.
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A childhood friend who was a dentist died after giving birth to twins. She was around 30. She was also about 6 feet tall. I think she had a blood clot.
Another childhood friend’s daughter nearly died two years ago right after delivering her first child. She was around 28 or 29. First child. She began hemorhaging, and it took them quite a bit of effort to get her body to stop. She had multiple transfusions and almost did not make it. Her mama is a nurse. Anywho, they are the kind of folks who plan everything and everything has to be just so. I don’t know if the daughter is a heavy drinker as much of the family is. A second daughter had a baby a year later. She didn’t have a lot of trouble. However, baby was about six weeks early.
Another childhood friend gave birth for the first time two years ago. She was 44. Her baby was about six weeks early. My friend was fine for the first few days after delivery. Then she had a blood clot and nearly died. She has since had major heart issues.
All three of these females were birth control takers for at least five years before getting pregnant.
Hispanics, especially recently from Mexico (not the Americanized ones), have the lowest infant mortality and lowest maternal death rates of any demographic group. If you excluded Puerto Ricans it would be even lower. Their rate is better than Whites, better than Asians, and certainly better than Blacks.
One reason is the lifestyle. Go to a SuperMercado like my wife does. The fresh food section is 3 or 4 times bigger than an American supermarket store. The processed food section is extremely small.
Diet, exercise, no alcohol, no tobacco, no drug use are much better among Mexican immigrant women than any other demographic. Others who have a history of alcohol, drugs, tobacco clearly are “at risk”. Harder to prove is the role of chemicals in processed foods. There are other factors also. It can get complicated.
I spend most of my time these days on statistics for pregnant women, new moms, and newborns.
And, of course, while my wife is shopping I talk to others who qualify for Medicaid and don’t take it as well as the few who do take it.
Hispanics, especially recently from Mexico (not the Americanized ones), have the lowest infant mortality and lowest maternal death rates of any demographic group. If you excluded Puerto Ricans it would be even lower. Their rate is better than Whites, better than Asians, and certainly better than Blacks.
One reason is the lifestyle. Go to a SuperMercado like my wife does. The fresh food section is 3 or 4 times bigger than an American supermarket store. The processed food section is extremely small.
Diet, exercise, no alcohol, no tobacco, no drug use are much better among Mexican immigrant women than any other demographic. Others who have a history of alcohol, drugs, tobacco clearly are “at risk”. Harder to prove is the role of chemicals in processed foods. There are other factors also. It can get complicated.
I spend most of my time these days on statistics for pregnant women, new moms, and newborns.
And, of course, while my wife is shopping I talk to others who qualify for Medicaid and don’t take it as well as the few who do take it.
Women with an abortion history are at much higher risk of problems when they subsequently do have a baby.
In the USA, 74% of births are paid for by medicaid. 1 in 3 USA females will kill at least one child in her life. These are high risk births...abortions leave some serious scars.
I've read before that birth control medication is associated with heart problems.
Statistically more deaths than from gun accidents, less than from cars.
One of the many causes in New mom deaths is infections acquired in the hospital...sepsis. Sepsis type acquisitions in medical facilities are the #3 cause of death in the US in the opinion of most statisticians. Anti-biotics are used so much the germs are adapting and ant-biotic resistant. That is a risk for all of us, and far larger than the new mom issue.
And Ireland, where abortion is still illegal and the unborn protected by law, has for decades had one of the lowest maternal mortality rates in the world. Six per 100,000 live births, lower than Israel, Britain, Switzerland, WAY lower than the USA (21).
I had a baby today. My third. The woman in the delivery room two doors down from mine had a code blue called on her. Three hours later when I was on my way to the post partum unit, I rode by her room in my wheelchair and saw she was on a ventilator
Congratulations!
When I was a child we had a neighbor who died suddenly at home from a ruptured uterus. She had a previous cesarean delivery.The 7 month unborn baby died also.
Your logic is incomprehensible. Natural born citizens aka African-American women have the highest rate. Mexican non-citizens in the US have the lowest rate, lower than Whites, lower than Asians. The reality is that this is not a first world-third world issue. It is a lifestyle issue.
A lifestyle where women drink like a man, smoke weed, do drugs, including legal drugs, women who have abortions, who wait until beyond 35 to have their first kid, and many other lifestyle choices are the issue.
Mexican non-citizens and their babies in the US have the lowest rate of deaths and problems thanks to lifestyle.
In other countries they don't even try to save preemies, so they don't count in their stats.
Mustn't mention that though. It doesn't fit the narrative that America is bad.
Good point. Every January the infant mortality rates come out as news items and the media push for Medicaid expansion to save these babies. However low income women who qualify for Medicaid and/or expanded Medicaid, namely Mexicans, have a far lower rate than women of the same economic level who are on Medicaid. So how is Medicaid going to help women who up to this point, have refused to sign up for Medicaid?
Women outting off pregnancy for a career at the behest of the filthy feminazis. They realize in their 30s that time is running out. Another betrayal of women by the agents of cultural destruction.
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