Oh man makes me so happy to be Canadian, we were an at risk birth due to high BP and the hospital was very attentive to her needs. Couldn't go a 30 minutes without her BP being checked, and after...
Oh man makes me so happy to be Canadian, we were an at risk birth due to high BP and the hospital was very attentive to her needs. Couldn't go a 30 minutes without her BP being checked, and after the birth about 4 nurses and a couple doctors informed us how to watch for warning signs of high blood loss and what to do if it occurred. Thankfully we had no complications but the hospital was not messing around.
Not going to go into why I know whereof I speak, but a substantial proportion of the issue with maternal deaths in the U.S. starts long before the inferior perinatal and antenatal care. Mothers...
Not going to go into why I know whereof I speak, but a substantial proportion of the issue with maternal deaths in the U.S. starts long before the inferior perinatal and antenatal care.
Mothers arrive in poorer general health, because of poverty stressors and unaffordable routine healthcare.
A higher proportion of U.S. mothers than in the rest of the developed world are of advanced maternal age, 35 or over, because the jobs available in prime childbearing years don't pay enough to support children, and there's little or no state assistance available.
A higher proportion of U.S. mothers than in the rest of the developed world are obese, diabetic, or have other chronic diseases that impact safety of pregnancy, because of unregulated snack food advertising and low dietary nutrient content, lack of options for exercise, and high body burden of endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
A higher proportion of U.S. mothers than in the rest of the developed world are exposed to unregulated fertility treatments, including multiple embryo implants with much more complicated pregnancy and birth.
Finally, compared to other developed nations, the U.S. makes it much more difficult to time conception for optimum maternal support, and in many states, it's not legal (for all practical purposes) to terminate a pregnancy even when the mother's health and life may be at grave risk.
Where's the article? All I see is the headline and a few pages worth of links to other articles. This is on mobile from the EU, which apparently gets a special version of the site. Maybe that's...
Where's the article? All I see is the headline and a few pages worth of links to other articles. This is on mobile from the EU, which apparently gets a special version of the site. Maybe that's related.
Geez, so many sites are annoying now and have ridiculous restrictions. Does this work for you (other than it showing the title as "Help us report this story")? https://outline.com/493hV8
Geez, so many sites are annoying now and have ridiculous restrictions.
Does this work for you (other than it showing the title as "Help us report this story")? https://outline.com/493hV8
Ah yes, outline works. "We pretend to comply with GDPR by not giving you any functionality in the first place", which is exactly against GDPR. Not that they care though, they're in the US.
Ah yes, outline works. "We pretend to comply with GDPR by not giving you any functionality in the first place", which is exactly against GDPR. Not that they care though, they're in the US.
Oh man makes me so happy to be Canadian, we were an at risk birth due to high BP and the hospital was very attentive to her needs. Couldn't go a 30 minutes without her BP being checked, and after the birth about 4 nurses and a couple doctors informed us how to watch for warning signs of high blood loss and what to do if it occurred. Thankfully we had no complications but the hospital was not messing around.
Not going to go into why I know whereof I speak, but a substantial proportion of the issue with maternal deaths in the U.S. starts long before the inferior perinatal and antenatal care.
Mothers arrive in poorer general health, because of poverty stressors and unaffordable routine healthcare.
A higher proportion of U.S. mothers than in the rest of the developed world are of advanced maternal age, 35 or over, because the jobs available in prime childbearing years don't pay enough to support children, and there's little or no state assistance available.
A higher proportion of U.S. mothers than in the rest of the developed world are obese, diabetic, or have other chronic diseases that impact safety of pregnancy, because of unregulated snack food advertising and low dietary nutrient content, lack of options for exercise, and high body burden of endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
A higher proportion of U.S. mothers than in the rest of the developed world are exposed to unregulated fertility treatments, including multiple embryo implants with much more complicated pregnancy and birth.
Finally, compared to other developed nations, the U.S. makes it much more difficult to time conception for optimum maternal support, and in many states, it's not legal (for all practical purposes) to terminate a pregnancy even when the mother's health and life may be at grave risk.
Where's the article? All I see is the headline and a few pages worth of links to other articles. This is on mobile from the EU, which apparently gets a special version of the site. Maybe that's related.
Geez, so many sites are annoying now and have ridiculous restrictions.
Does this work for you (other than it showing the title as "Help us report this story")? https://outline.com/493hV8
Ah yes, outline works. "We pretend to comply with GDPR by not giving you any functionality in the first place", which is exactly against GDPR. Not that they care though, they're in the US.
Ars Technica also has a good write-up on the topic.
Vox had some excellent coverage about this last year:
The maternal mortality rate in California is a third of the American average. Here's why.