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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I’m very sorry to hear of that. This is supposed to be a wonderful moment in any woman’s life. To have it turn into a near death experience is so sad. Thank heaven she’s doing better. I’m so happy to hear that at least. Best wishes to the mom, dad, and child from here on out.
I was going to work up some numbers for you, but for the life of me I can’t verify the numbers in my original post here. I looked over the article, but the 9.1 and 18.4 deaths per thousand didn’t seem to be in the source materials any longer.
From what I did state, the numbers have gone up 404 deaths this year over the yearly figure roughly 30 years ago. That means that each year the numbers of deaths have gone up by roughly 13.5.
In that 30 years we now have about 102.2% more deaths than we did in roughly 1987.
This means that about 1.11 more women die each day now than died daily in 1987. (when I make these statements, I am considering population / birth rates to be level between the two periods now vs thirty years ago)(I’m going off the 9.1 vs 18.4% rates per 100,000 people)
So while this is troubling, it’s still not that far out of line. Look, one more death is problematic, but if we can look at the age groups and contributing factors, I think these increases become more understandable, even IF THEY don’t want us to think so. (It will become more clear why I worded it this way later on)
We have a number of problems these days. We have an illegal alien populace. We have more drugs. We have more out of wedlock births. We have a female populace that is in many instances choosing to have children later in life, so they can have a career first.
Are these factors contributing to the problems we’re seeing. I don’t think there is any question they are.
Women having children at 30-40 vs 20-26 is going to have an impact. Illegal alien women whose living conditions may not be optimal are going to have a few more problems. Inner cities that have elevated drug usage. We have a meth problem in many places we didn’t have years ago.
If we’re looking nationwide at our population and the figure is 1.11 more deaths each day for a nation this size, I’m not sure that is cataclysmic, but again even one death is too many.
Then you have to ask yourself what the motivating factor is for this report. Is this earth shattering? IMO, this is a report where data was mined in order to justify more government funding for minority and illegal alien population bases. (This is what I was referencing earlier. I suspect “THEY” want the government to shell out more shekels for the poor and illegals)(They will be striving to get as many women as they can into some Leftist program. Middle-class already being insured, guess who that means)
It is interesting that you know someone close who just had a close call. What are the odds you would know one of those 1.11 women per day, out of the whole nation? Of course this will (hopefully) wind up to be just a close call too. I believe there were reportedly 65,000 of those (yearly).
Interesting topic. IMO, this may be more of an indicator that our nation is melting down than anything else.
Our society is not stable. We have gone through the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years, and I don’t think even one of those years have brought more stability and peace to our people.
It will be interesting to see what the numbers do now under Trump. If he gets people back to work, brings up the standards of living for the middle and lower classes, we should see these numbers go down.
If he can get the drug problems under control, that alone should help a great deal.
Keeping our illegal alien populace under control may help as well.
I don’t want our women having to face problematic pregnancies, so I am hoping my thoughts about Trump helping will play out.
Based on those numbers in my fist post, we find that mother mortality went up 102.2% over the 30 years. We saw mother mortality increase from 396 deaths to 800 deaths over those 30 years. That turns out to be a 3.4% increase each of those 30 years (average). Literal deaths each year increased 13.48 on average. Deaths per day went from 1.08 30 years ago to 2.19 per day now.
Now I did take a look at the graph for our nation vs others. One would think they would be dealing with some of the same factors. I think our illegal immigration problem is pretty significant compared to theirs. We have perhaps 30 million illegals in country. We have also seen a meth problem spike. We’re talking about a lot of births in these groups. Their standards of living are likely more compromised that the general populace.
Take care.
Didn’t know that.
I remember several years ago, reports that too many Caesarean deliveries were being done. I don't know if anything has changed with that. Back when I was in my child-bearing years, it was recommended that a woman only have two Caesarean sections...no more. Of course that was back during the dark ages, when medical techniques weren't as refined as they are now. My niece has had three Caesarean deliveries. The first two were boys. The last was for twin girls. Thankfully she had no problems at all.
Most illegals that have babies here have little to no issue producing bouncing baby citizens that will qualify for tons of freebies.
Placenta previa: Bleeding. Severe, possibly life-threatening vaginal bleeding (hemorrhage) can occur during labor, delivery or the first few hours after delivery.
“In many cases, placenta previa is caused by uterine factors. For example, scarring of the lining tissue of the uterus can occur from previous cesarean section (C-section) deliveries, D&C procedures, or abortions. The scarring heightens the risk of women having placenta previa.”
http://www.birthinjuryguide.org/birth-injury/causes/placenta-previa/
There are other causes listed at the link but the first thing they list is what I quoted above.
We are told abortion is about womens health. Sure it is.
A third of those occur during abortions.
Your friend’s DIL had preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets). It is one of the largest causes of maternal mortality and morbidity and premature birth. It can come on very suddenly and the only treatment for really severe cases is “immediate delivery regardless of gestational age.”
Nobody said it was “mostly” the case, but kids as young as eleven or twelve getting pregnant out of wedlock are very probably going to be coming from broken homes, without much family support, living in relatively impoverished circumstances - they’re probably going to get inferior medical monitoring and care if they get any until near the end of their pregnancy - and unlike factors like advancing age and diabetes which are pretty much uncontrollable, unwed pregnancy is theoretically preventable to some degree - it is a situation which contributes probably disproportionately in comparison to many other countries to “America’s High Rate of Maternal Mortality”.....
Thank you for the explanation.
there is a lot of prejudice in some areas against minorities. Some docs dislike poor patients, and if you are black, you see this as racism.
Poor people don't always recognize the need for prenatal care and tend to miss appointments and not follow doctor's orders.
there is also the problem of how the statistics are collected. In the US, any death near the time of delivery is included, even accidents etv.
I know one who died in the mid 1970s.
I almost lost a loved one to incompetence/negligence. If not for my daughter having common sense and taking advice to get a 2nd opinion and switch Obstetricians my grandchild would not be here today because she was subsequently diagnosed with a prenatal condition that would kill the child in womb if not treated and left to go full term. The original OB was ignoring her telltale symptom. Telling her to treat with over the counter antihistamine.
I hear it a lot but why is this?
“In the US, any death near the time of delivery is included, even accidents etc.”
Well, that doesn’t help matters any if you’re trying to get REAL data.
Thanks for the info.
I have never even heard of anyone dying from childbirth. Although my sister in law had a still birth and almost died from blood clots but that was hospital negligence. They let her lay in the bed for 24 hours instead of up walking around. Oh wait that was socialized healthcare in Frankfurt Germany. If it was here they would have had her up and moving.
TV judge Glenda Hatchett reveals how her daughter-in-law, 39, died from blood loss, 12 hours after giving birth to her second child via a scheduled C-section - as her son sues
That judge is very consistently about family values. Her son and daughter-in-law already had one child, so this is extra horrible for the family.
China has overtaken the US as the most obese nation, with almost 90 million obese people. The United States is close behind with over 87 million.
The increase in severe obesity (BMI of 35 and above) in China has seen the country move from 60th place for men and 41st place for women in 1975 to second for severe obesity for both men and women in 2014.
The United States is still home to the highest population of severely obese people.
The nations with the highest average BMI rate in the world are the islands of Polynesia and Micronesia, where more than 38% of men and over half of women are obese.
English-speaking countries are more highly affected by obesity. Almost a fifth of the world’s obese population live in just six English-speaking countries – Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and the US.
... Women are more likely to be obese, with the study finding 375 million obese women in the world in 2014, compared to 266 million obese men. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/is-the-world-getting-dangerously-fatter/
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