Sentences with phrase «as high birth rates»

Efforts needed to avoid two extremes Wilmoth said low fertility could be viewed as just as difficult a challenge as high birth rates because governments have to deal with rapidly aging populations and fewer children to replace them.

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Also, though fertility generally decreases as women age, the rate of multiple births is higher for older women.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

Because of the slowing birth rate in developed countries which have a higher than average amount people who profess no religion (minus the united states), the developing countries, such as Brazil who are highly religious, account for an increase in religious profession.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

The cultural changes that Fuchs and Reklis have in mind are increasing individualism, growing preoccupation with individual fulfillment, wider tolerance for divorce as a solution to marital problems, and more general acceptance at all social levels of the high rates of out - of - wedlock births and single parenthood.

Whilst we do not have rigorous evaluation evidence of the effectiveness of Ecole des Maris, testimony from the men involved, and from pregnant women and new mothers, indicates that the scheme has transformed attitudes towards healthcare, as well as substantially increasing the rates of attended labour in a country where maternal and child death rates at birth remain high.

Until women and their families start expecting respect and look at themselves as the main player in childbirth we will continue to have higher maternal mortality rates than 33 other countries (according to WHO) and higher low birth weight rates than 23 other countries.

With a mortality rate of almost 5x higher than hospital birth, this is not that far off the 6 - 8 times higher we saw for the Oregon data collection, even though the Oregon group almost surely had significantly fewer criteria for risking mothers out (no criteria in some places, I'm sure) as well as lower qualifications for the midwives as CPMs and DEMs.

Mothers who give birth at home are as concerned with the under - reported and grossly high maternal mortality rate in hospitals as the infant mortality rate.

planning birth in an obstetric unit is associated with a higher rate of interventions, such as instrumental vaginal birth, caesarean section and episiotomy, compared with planning birth in other settings

As the recently released statistics from Oregon show, planned homebirth with a licensed homebirth midwife has a mortality rate 800 % HIGHER than term hospital birth.

In California's Central Valley, Colleen developed a county - wide educational track for nurses to train as midwives in order to help reduce high pre-term birth and teen pregnancy rates in Kern County, and provided well woman and prenatal care in a community health center primarily serving migrant farm workers.

Since homebirth rates are as low as 1.2 % in our country, and in the State of Indiana no higher than 6 %, I suspect his statistics are exaggerated by his own fabricated fear of birth.

Our top fertility center is proud to maintain consistently high pregnancy and live birth rates, ranking among the best in the United States as determined by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART).

Albert and other experts at CDC and in the field attribute the decline to a variety of factors, including lower rates of sexual activity, greater use of contraception, and a higher incidence of physicians educating and offering teen mothers long - term birth control methods such as IUDs and hormonal implants, which can prevent a second unintended pregnancy.

But the increase in the multiple birth rate means not just more twins, but also higher order multiples, such as triplets, quadruplets and the like.

These studies were from Australasia, 13 14 Europe, 15 — 18 and the United States.19 Australian planned home births had a perinatal death rate about twice as high as these countries (table 5).

But as Judith also noted in her verbal testimony, the hospital rate contains both low and high - risk births, so the DEM rate is actually even worse in comparison (since homebirth midwives are attending - supposedly — low risk births only).

The three recent papers published in American Journal of ObGyn: Wax metaanalysis (2010), Chervenak (2013), Grunebaum **** (see note at bottom)(Apgar 0, 2013) and the U.K. Birth Place study (2013) report perinatal death rates from homebirth as 3 times or 10 times higher than perinatal death rates in the first week than hospital bBirth Place study (2013) report perinatal death rates from homebirth as 3 times or 10 times higher than perinatal death rates in the first week than hospital birthbirth.

The death rates are appalling and the fact that so many «high risk» births were allowed to go forward as home births is also appalling, I would suggest that a lack of training among non-CNM midwives would be obvious to MANA based on the fact that they can't even follow up with their clients for the most basic of information.

Vitamin K2 from high quality sources has a very high rate of transfer to colostrum, so unrestricted breastfeeding after birth (from a well - nourished mother) serves as an immediate transfusion to newborns.

The 0.5 % death rate of a higher - risk home birth is the same as the probability of a child dying between the ages of 1 and 18 from any cause at all.

The U.S. has considered many factors, such as advanced maternal age, more reproductive technology, and higher rates of premature births for its high mortality rate, but the rate is simply much too high.

After hospital transfers were reclassified as belonging to the planned out - of - hospital birth category, the rate of fetal death was higher (though not quite reaching the level of significance) among out - of - hospital births than among in - hospital births (2.4 vs. 1.2 deaths per 1000 deliveries, P = 0.05)(Table 3).

During that time the death rate in labour or the neonatal period in non-malformed babies of normal birth weight born to women booked for a home delivery (those deaths most capable of reduction by high quality care during labour) was as low as the regional figure for all other such losses (0.05 % v 0.11 %).

In Horwood's long - range study that followed children from birth to 18 years or the completion of high school, breastfed children were rated as more cooperative and socially better students the longer they were breastfed.17 When drop - out rates were calculated, the rate was higher among children who had been bottle - fed and lowest among those who had been breastfed equal to or longer than eight months, even when data were adjusted for maternal demographics.

Sadly, the results are as you'd expect, with more complications during birth and higher mortality rates for both mom and baby.

Rates of respiratory infections, such as pneumonia and bronchitis, metabolic disorders, and eczema were higher among children who experienced any form of birth intervention than those born vaginally.

So a team of Dutch researchers decided to test whether low risk women at the onset of labour with planned home birth have a higher rate of rare but severe outcomes (known as severe acute maternal morbidity or SAMM) than those with planned hospital births.

In nulliparous women, a period of 8 hours of augmentation resulted in an 18 % cesarean delivery rate and no cases of birth injury or asphyxia, whereas if the period of augmentation had been limited to 4 hours, the cesarean delivery rate would have been twice as high given the number of women who had not made significant progress at 4 hours.

More recently, rates of higher order births (three or more infants) have declined as changes in assisted reproductive techniques (ART) to reduce multiple pregnancies have been implemented (Smith 2014; Umstad 2013).

What I had meant to say was that if Dr T is going to use the Netherlands as an example to support her claim that home birth is not safe, when France has an even higher perinatal rate (with an almost non-existent home birth culture), then she's cherry - picking her stats and misleading her readers.

«In this sample, the rate of postpartum hemorrhage (defined as over 500cc in a vaginal birth and 1000 cc in a cesarean) was 15.4 %, higher than previous research has reported.

So it makes no sense whatsoever to try and compare the two groups as you are attempting to, since you have no way of knowing whether the difference in death rate is due to the place of birth or due to the underlying conditions which make the women in question high risk.

Doulas are truly amazing and have been credited with many positive side effects, including lower cesarean section rates when they are present as well as higher satisfaction with the birth experience on the part of the women they serve during childbirth.

To summarize, the MANA statistics show that homebirth as practiced in the US has a death rate 450 % higher than hospital birth.

If you look at the death rate when high - risk pregnancies falsely classified as low - risk are included (midwives claim to only attend low - risk births), you've gotten up to 2.0 per thousand deaths and about 40 per thousand permanently injured for a total of 42 per thousand dead or permanently injured.

The U.S. spends twice as much per birth than any other country in the world, yet has the second - worst newborn mortality rate and one of the highest rates of maternal death during childbirth.

Nearly all human societies have the practice of assisting women as they give birth, and many anthropologists believe that the death rate in truly unassisted childbirth is too high for the human race to survive without it.

Does nine times higher death rate of breech babies in homebirth according to MANA stats than the death rate of breech births in hospitals count as a proven negative outcome or not?

Yet, when I analyzed all of the studies that the Midwives» Alliance of North America (MANA) says comprise the best evidence for the safety of home birth, I found that every study that looked at nonhospital birth in the United States (and many of the studies that looked at other countries, as well) reported much higher death rates for babies when compared to similar hospital births.

The jury is out as to why this is, but probable causes include insufficient (or nonexistent) maternity leave, poverty and its accompanying stress and pour nourishment, lack of education about and exposure to breastfeeding, infant care practices that keep mother and baby separate, scheduled feeding, high rates of birth interventions, the aggressive marketing of infant formula, exposure to pesticides and endocrine disruptors, and cultural beliefs that tell mothers they can't do it.

Hrubec noted that an epidemiological study could determine whether people who have a high rate of exposure, such as healthcare workers or restaurant servers, have a more difficult time becoming pregnant or have a greater likelihood of having children with neural tube birth defects, but no such study has been conducted to date.

A big skull was not conducive to easy births, and thus a within - group pressure toward smaller heads was probably always present, as it still is in present - day humans, who have an unusually high infant mortality rate due to big - headed babies.

The incidence rate for neoplasms was highest among children either after IVF (1.5 / 1000) and somewhat lower for OI births (1.0 / 1000) as compared to that of naturally conceived children -LRB-.59 / 1000).

Most females in this study gave birth by the age of 14, and as for other species, early starters have higher rates of reproduction.

But the projection assumed that birth rates in Africa — the highest in the world — would steadily drop as access to contraceptives and women's education improved.

Lead author Melissa Danielson, MSPH, a statistician with the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, said findings that children in foster care experience high rates of ADHD along with other, simultaneous behavioral disorders as compared to their peers in Medicaid shows a substantial need for medical and behavioral services within this group.

With the WHO calling for the US to work to lower its unnecessarily high c - section rates, supporting home birth as a birth choice is increasingly important.