#maternal deaths

[odinsblog]

Rest In Peace, Tori Bowie

While some vehemently deny that structural racism exists and that even individual doctors hold internal biases against Black women, maternal mortality rates do not lie.

👉🏿 https://firstandpen.com/torie-bowie-serena-williams-allyson-felix-pregnancy-black-maternal-health-mortality/

Even though 60% of all childbirth-related deaths in the US are preventable, the "[racial] disparities around maternal health are not improved by access to insurance, access to education," according to double board-certified neonatologist and pediatrician Dr. Terri Maior-Kincade.

"Having a higher socio-economic status for Black women is not protective," Major-Kincade told Insider. "These disparities are related to systemic issues, and they're not going to get better until we provide equitable care. So we have to improve the way we deliver care to Black women so that we can have the full joy of pregnancy."

👉🏿 https://www.insider.com/allyson-felix-near-death-pregnancy-issues-black-moms-face-2022-6

#politics #tori bowie #structural racism #medical racism #blacklivesmatter #black maternal health #infant mortality #maternal deaths #maternal death rate #reproductive rights #healtcare #reproductive justice #maternal mortality #maternal mortality rate

[longliveblackness]

Caesarean section was considered a life-threatening procedure in England that was only to be undertaken in the direst of circumstances and facing the decision on whether to save the life of the mother or baby.

The first successful C-section done in Africa ("success" defined as both surviving) is usually credited to Irish surgeon James Barry (Margaret Ann Bulkley), who performed the operation in Cape Town, South Africa.

This may well not be true due to the quality of surgical techniques in present-day Uganda. Ugandans performed non-fatal C-sections without anesthesia but with supply of banana wine as discovered by a missionary.

In 1879, medical missionary Robert Felkin was visiting indigenous people in the Kingdom of Bunyoro. He later published his observations of obstetric care, which included an account of a C-section that he was permitted to witness.

He had a chance to observe a Caesarian section being performed on a young woman. He observed that in Uganda, C-sections were performed with the intention of saving both the mother and the baby, unlike in Europe where maternal mortality was high.

In the Ugandan c-section, there were three men; one was holding a knife, the other was holding unto the ankles of the young woman and the third stood above her abdomen, supporting either sides with his hands in the course of the surgical procedure.

The surgeon who wielded the knife foremost washed his hands, surgical instruments and the abdomen of the young woman with banana wine for sterilization purposes.

She was given some banana wine to drink in order to make her less sensitive to the surgeon's blades.

The surgeon started the C-section by reciting an incantation.

After the ceremonial prayer, he proceeded with the operation.

In Europe, the concept of surgeons sterilizing their hands before the c-section was very new, and only just starting to catch on. Ultimately, it prevented a lot of deaths once they started doing it.

The Ugandans had mastered the procedure long before there was any interaction with Europeans, as well as with explorers, missionaries and plunderers from other parts of the world, who came to steal and enslave.

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Los británicos consideraban que las cesáreas eran procedimientos que ponían en riesgo la vida y que solo tenían que ser realizadas en las peores de las circunstancias y enfrentándose a la decisión de salvar a la madre o al bebé.

La primera cesárea exitosa fue realizada en África (“exitosa” debido a que ambos sobrevivieron) y usualmente se le acredita al cirujano irlandés James Barry (Margaret Ann Bulkley), quién realizó la operación en Ciudad del Cabo, Sudáfrica.

Esto puede que no sea cierto debido a la calidad de las técnicas quirúrgicas de la Uganda actual. Los ugandeses realizaban cesáreas no fatales sin anestesia pero administrando vino hecho de bananas, como fue descubierto por un misionero.

En 1879, un misionero médico llamado Robert Felkin, andaba visitando a la población indígena del Reino de Bunyoro. Luego de eso, público sus observaciones en cuanto a los cuidados obstétricos y esto incluía los acontecimientos de una cesárea que le habían permitido presenciar.

Él tuvo la oportunidad de observar cómo se practicaba una cesárea en una mujer joven. Observó que en Uganda, las cesáreas eran realizadas con la intención de salvar a ambos, madre y bebé, a diferencia de Europa dónde la tasa de mortalidad materna era alta.

En la cesárea ugandesa, habían tres hombres: uno sosteniendo la cuchilla, el otro sosteniendo los tobillos de la mujer y el otro se paraba cerca del abdomen para brindar soporte con los manos hacia cualquiera de los dos lados, durante el curso del procedimiento quirúrgico.

El cirujano que portaba la cuchilla lavaba tanto sus manos, como los instrumentos quirúrgicos y el abdomen de la mujer con vino de banana por propósitos de esterilización.

Se le daba de beber algo de vino hecho de bananas para hacerla menos sensible a las cuchillas del cirujano.

El cirujano comenzaba la cesárea recitando un conjuro.

Después del rezo ceremonial, procedía a realizar la operación.

En Europa, el concepto de que los cirujanos se esterilizaran las manos antes de una cesárea era algo demasiado nuevo y venían dándose cuenta. Al final, una vez que comenzaron a hacerlo, se evitaron muchas muertes.

Los ugandeses habían dominado el procedimiento mucho antes de que tuvieran algún tipo de interacción con los Europeos, así como también con los exploradores, misioneros y saqueadores de otras partes del mundo, quienes llegaron a robar y esclavizar.

#blacklivesmatter #blacklivesalwaysmatter #english #spanish #blackhistory #history #share #read #blackpeoplematter #blackhistorymonth #c section #maternity #maternalmentalhealth #black maternal health #maternal deaths #black mothers #mothers #motherhood #uganda #knowledgeisfree #knowledge #black history #historyfacts #african history #medicine #knowyourhistory #like #follow #blackhistoryyear #black excellence

[indizombie]

Uttar Pradesh contributed a disproportionate share of India's maternal and new-born deaths: 27% of India's neonatal deaths and 35% of maternal deaths, compared to only 18% of births. Thus, improving maternal and neonatal mortality in UP would be critical to India improving its maternal and reproductive health indicators.

Rema Nagarajan, 'Babies born in private hosps in rural UP more likely to die in a month', Times of India

#Uttar Pradesh #maternal deaths #new-born deaths #India #maternal health #reproductive health #Rema Nagarajan #Times of India

[gwydionmisha]

#Maternal Deaths #News

[lamajaoscura]

Report: Mothers in states with abortion bans nearly 3 times more likely to die

#post roe #abortion is healthcare #abortion is a human right #maternal deaths #maternal mortality

[intelligentchristianlady]

Remember: the Supreme Court decision will not end abortions in these states. It will end safe, legal abortions for those too poor to travel to another state.

Brought to you by the party of small government and personal freedom.

Image source: NYT.

#SCOTUS #Roe v Wade #personal choice #personal freedom #bodily autonomy #reproductive rights #back-alley abortions #do-it-yourself abortions #maternal deaths

[makavelisixx]

#post partum #mail #infant mortality #maternal and child health #maternal deaths #women’s health #women’s rights #abortion rights #abortion is not murder #pregnancy #giving birth

[evetidefeminist]

August 15, 2022 Idaho top court allows near-total abortion ban to take effect

March 17, 2022 Idaho's Proposed Abortion Ban Lets Rapists' Families Profit Off Bounties

September 12, 2022 Idaho's extensive abortion ban is impacting neighboring Washington

March 18, 2023 Idaho hospital to stop labor and delivery services citing "political climate" and doctor shortages

March 21, 2023 The Idaho House of Representatives voted Monday to kill the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s Medicaid budget

March 30, 2023 Idaho lawmakers pass a bill to prevent minors from leaving the state for abortion

March 31, 2023 Another Idaho hospital announces it can no longer deliver babies

April 13, 2023 Idaho Republicans are building an abortion police state

April 26, 2023 'Immense And Needless Suffering': Idaho’s Abortion Ban Is Creating A Crisis Of Care

May 4, 2023 After Idaho’s strict abortion ban, OB-GYNs stage a quick exodus

July 1, 2023 Idaho’s abortion ban is the worst among red states

#Idaho #abortion #Abortion ban #maternal deaths #Maternity #Pregnancy #Woman's health #womens health #pro life #So called pro life puts lives at risk #Republicans #politics #Gop #Mysogyny

[mumbailivenews]

#covid-19 #coronavirus #mumbai #maternal deaths #maternal deaths in mumbai #Coronavirus Outbreak Mumbai

[don-lichterman]

New plan for improving maternal health care in NJ

New plan for improving maternal health care in NJ

New plan for improving maternal health care in NJ

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#birth equity #birthing centers #maternal deaths #maternal health care #New JerseyOne #Nurture NJ #Tammy Murphy

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I saw @qourmet's young madam lan art, and knew what I had to do.

#better drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan furen #horse #we need to name her horse IMMEDIATELY #Qingheng-Jun #She is stunning and beautiful and the design has me in a death grip #AND she's a horse girl? It was not even and option to not draw her. #Lan wangji has to get his biting and tearing and killing genes from somewhere. #Its maternal. He inherited the hunting instinct from his mother and an attraction to people who do crimes from his father #btw if yall haven't seen them; All of qourmet's prev generation designs are *so* good. I have genuinely gotten brainrot over CSSR and WCZ. #On every god that exists I WILL find a way to have them show up in the pd-mdzs comic canon. I've already scripted the comics. Its happening #Also it's been too long since I drew an equine. Why are there not *more* equines in MDZS. This is why I had to make the equineswap au. #I''m still not sure how a horse works. but I'm getting there. #Slowly I am creeping towards the necessary skill set I need to draw Qiyan Agula. #JQWS audio drama....I am gazing at you so fondly. I will return to you with power and strength (better comic skills to draw you) #we are a long way away but...that's the dream project.

[gwydionmisha]

#Racial Disparity #Maternal Deaths #AMA #American Medical Association #News

[disabled-dean]

HOT take but I am rotating a 27-year-old Mary in my mind, who isn't really fit for motherhood and doesn't stick around- but who blows through the bunker every once in a while with a group of rowdy young hunters and shitty gas station souvenirs, cleans her gun at the kitchen table, calls dean "baby", and leaves

#give me 27 year old Mart or give me death #like the dissonance here would have been soooooooo good can you imagine #Mary behaving almost exactly like Dean did back in the day (she's 27 dude) #but sometimes regressing into having a four year old #only her maternal instincts never aged past still illicitly living the life while having a toddler #but now dean is grown up and she doesn't have to take care of him or pretend to know how to cook #she just blows through town with shitty gas station souvenirs and the nostalgia for a life she wasn't equipped for #and is relieved to have gotten out of- one she relives a little heavily and doesn't have the tools to recreate or pantomime #also dean mommy issues winchester having to recon fully with a mother who is 15 years younger than him #spending his whole life yearning for motherhood and getting only a whisper #and having to face that #anyways that's the good supernatural that lives in my head #spn #Supernatural #mary winchester #mary posting

[coochiequeens]

This is why I can’t stand those stories about celebrities having kids through surrogates. They downplay the risks to the mother who goes through pregnancy and childbirth.

Fake or not, I mean I really hate to think of four kids dealing with an aunt/mom so oblivious to how those boys lost their mom so young and unwilling to modify plans but surrogacy does pose increased risks to the mothers and children they carry

“At the recent United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, The Heritage Foundation and the Center for Family and Human Rights drew attention to surrogacy and the dangers it poses to women at an event  that highlighted several instances of women who had been trafficked, rendered infertile, or even died as a result of surrogacy. Michelle Reaves was one such surrogate mother from California. She lost her life last year while delivering a baby for someone else, leaving her own son and daughter motherless and her husband a widower.

By its very nature, surrogacy commodifies both a woman’s body as well as that of the child. The women targeted to become a surrogate by the multi-billion-dollar fertility industry are often wooed by the opportunity to make tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for renting their body. In some cases, a surrogate arrangement is altruistic—perhaps the surrogate mother may want to help a friend or family member who desperately wants a baby, and she does not profit financially from the exchange. Nevertheless, regardless of the circumstances or motivation, in a surrogacy arrangement a woman’s body is used as a conduit for a transaction that provides a baby for someone else—and the risks for both her, and the baby, are significant.

Whether a surrogate mother is compensated or not, serious concerns involving health risks to mothers and babies remain, and the rights of children must not be ignored.

Children who are born as the result of a surrogacy arrangement are more likely to have low birth weights and are at an increased risk for stillbirth. When a woman carries a child conceived from an egg that is not her own—a traditional gestational surrogate arrangement—she is at a three-fold risk of developing hypertension and pre-eclampsia. Egg donors have spoken up about experiencing conditions such as loss of fertility, blood clots, kidney disease, premature menopause, and cancer, and the lack of data and studies on both short and long term health outcomes for egg donors makes true informed consent unattainable. While scientists do not fully understand the scope of these health considerations, it is clear that for both short and long-term outcomes, surrogacy is a frontier of unknowns; children, egg donors, and surrogate mothers may pay a physical or psychological price nobody yet fully knows or understands.”

#Reddit #aita #anti-surrogacy #Anti turning babies into commodities #Maternal death #No one is entitled to bio kids #Did they consider adoption?

[blessedarethequeer]

Speaking as a Catholic: banning abortion is not pro-life, by pure measure of statistics.

Banning or restricting abortion does not stop abortions, nor does it significantly reduce the rates at which people seek it. What it does do is ensure more people die, whether from pregnancy related complications or from seeking out unregulated, unsafe methods of abortion or from any number of related factors. Not to mention the many grieving parents who will be wrongfully imprisoned for miscarriages and birth complications.

The solution to abortion, if that is what we supposedly seek, is not spending millions on self-congratulatory "marches for life" or lobbying for bans or political campaigning, but to invest in a society that actively addresses poverty, roots out racism and ableism, supports young parents, provides appropriate and comprehensive sex ed, makes medical care accessible, and ultimately addresses the root causes that motivate many parents to terminate a pregnancy. Suggesting anything less is often smug, self-serving bullshit.

#abortion tw #i am so afraid for the death that will follow if Roe v Wade is overturned #abortion #pro choice catholic #pro choice #roe vs. wade #roe v wade #the US maternal mortality rate is already so much higher than other nations

[sealrock]

the major arcana, shuffled: 4/??

THE HIGH PRIESTESS; ⤉ spirituality, higher power, mystery, subconscious ⤈ hidden motives, secrets, repressed intuition, cognitive dissonance THE EMPRESS; ⤉ motherhood, femininity, nurturing, harmony ⤈ smothering, negligence, lack of growth, insecurity THE EMPEROR; ⤉ fatherhood, structure, authority, control ⤈ tyranny, domination, recklessness, rigidity

#mypost. #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv oc #ffxiv:tma #oh boy a 3 for 1 deal!!! #ty to fheythfully for your portrait tutorial!! :D #my game crashed when i was making this and i was about ready to pass away #the idea for this was 'haunted family paintings' with a dash of dorian gray #i intentionally fucked up the facial expressions with crimes & used photoshop filters to achieve the decaying effect of the reverse #for the people who don't know the tatlongharis (aka paris' maternal family via andromache): #the priestess is their aunt cassandra / the empress is their grandma hecuba / the emperor is their grandad priam #paris never met their grandma because she died way before paris was born #how did she die? priam accidentally caused her death but she (and cassandra) predicted she would die b/c they have the echo #so there you go :) #also i tried to match the crowns to the card names but i don't think i got close lol #body horror cw #just in case #notice how hecuba's face is all mangled while priam's flesh is wasting away. like the rotten corpse he is #as per usual flip your phone around to see the reverse sides #🏵️