Birth is the US is more expensive, but we still have more
babies and mothers dying.
Both
the baby and the mother died at an unassisted birth.
Not exact matches
One of the women in our community was carrying a
baby for her neighbor whose husband
died so that the
mother could carry her other
baby and continue to work the fields so that their family could continue to earn an income.»
I used to know when so -
and - so had a
baby or when someone's
mother died.
My brother said they said the
mother should
die before the fetus
and if we do abort the
baby we are «playing God.»
Some of us may still remember when in 1982, the courts of Indiana allowed a
mother and father to let their
baby boy
die from starvation because he was born with Down's Syndrome.
Yes, I do know somebody who had one
and it is a horrible, painful procedure, but it was either that or both the
baby and mother would
die.
Some
mothers and fathers face the unimaginable pain of discovering that their
baby will inevitably
die soon after birth.
And I remember the Presbyterian pastor, a woman of strength and compassion who assisted a young mother whose baby had died in placing the infant's body into a tiny cask
And I remember the Presbyterian pastor, a woman of strength
and compassion who assisted a young mother whose baby had died in placing the infant's body into a tiny cask
and compassion who assisted a young
mother whose
baby had
died in placing the infant's body into a tiny casket.
Would impoverished 3rd World
mothers give birth to
babies who will suffer
and die?
It was Dr Walley, who has witnessed first - hand the horror of young
mothers dying for want of appropriate medical facilities, who suggested that to the Seven Sorrows of Mary an eighth sorrow should be added: the suffering of thousands of women who
die giving birth to their
babies and the millions who, in despair, turn to abortion.
Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust
and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children
die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease;
and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a
mother's
baby to giggle with delight
and then blowing its brains out.
My own annoyance has
died down since my youngest has gotten out of the
baby stage but the protective feeling a
mother has for her children is natural
and healthy.
In the hospital when a
baby dies, freebirth advocates aren't pointing the finger at the
mother and the doctor
and slamming them... why lower yourself to such a low level?
on the reasons, actual provable reasons, why
babies /
mothers die in childbirth,
and why it happened in the past?
In the North Wales case, because the
baby's
mother — his only legally recognised parent — had
died, the child protection system was invoked
and applied to the grieving father.
Babies die, as sad as it is, under all circumstances
and to blame a grieving
mother at this point is just wrong.
As many have stated,
babies (
and mothers)
die in the hospital, too.
Second, you failed to mention how many
mothers and babies died in hospitals under the exact same circumstances as those surrounding the midwife assisted births.
Yes, some
babies are incompatible with life,
and mothers can
die in childbirth.
Every labor
and delivery carries the risk of the
baby dying, especially if the
mother is attended by an incompetent practitioner without adequate backup in case something goes wrong.
Babies (
and very rarely,
mothers) do sometimes
die in spite of the best care
and great love.
Some folks prefer hospitals,
and yet accidents do happen
and mothers and babies do
die.
I realize however, that the outside circumstances in our life at the time made this adjustment MUCH harder (we are a military family
and my husband left on a mission when my 2nd
baby was 2 weeks old, all while my
mother was
dying of cancer.
«Often the
babies who
died have overheated, because at that high risk age their thermal regulation system hasn't fully developed
and the
baby can't cool down,
and they have either been between two adults or even on the end of the bed with the
mother's arm around them.»
«Some
babies are too weak to grow properly, so they
die in their
mother's body
and the pregnancy ends before the
baby can be born.
1 2 Before the invention of forceps, men had been involved only in difficult deliveries, using destructive instruments with the result that
babies were invariably not born alive
and the
mother too would often
die.
And worst case scenario 14 out of 15
babies that
die at home would have been saved if their
mothers had chosen hospital.
Now will you write an article on all of the
babies and mothers who
died because of unnecessary c - sections?
Guess what else still born
babies are born all the time at hospitasl
and babies, (often born to low risk
mothers)
die all the time, often BECAUSE of obstetrics interventions not despite them.
At Furness General Hospital in Cumbria 6
babies and 2
mothers have
died preventable deaths, including Joshua Titcombe:
After we excluded four stillborns who
died before labour but whose
mothers still chose home birth,
and three
babies with fatal birth defects, five deaths were intrapartum
and six occurred during the neonatal period (see box).
They believe that EVERY
MOTHER AND BABY gets a staph infection in the hospital, and half of them d
AND BABY gets a staph infection in the hospital,
and half of them d
and half of them
die.
, who returned to deliver a lifeless
baby that nearly
died during a shoulder dystocia, yet the
mother was fulsome in her praise of the irresponsible
and possibly incompetent midwife.
Healthy, term
babies of low risk
mothers who were alive
and well at the start of labour
and died due to unnecessary interventions during labour, which means a normal labour, progressing without delay or signs of foetal distress
and an OB intervened «just because».
Fortitude is really what it took to nurse a
baby then, only three decades after commercial formula began getting widespread distribution in addition to its original use for extremely sick infants
and those whose
mothers could not nurse or had
died.
How about the HUNDREDS in not THOUSANDS of
babies and mothers alike that
die at the hands of doctors
and surgeons?
Both her
mother and her daughter had
babies die.
Mothers and babies are dying — not because they need to, not because they want to but because of a very sick culture right now that places process ahead of outcome and fails to adequately prepare and assist mothers through the p
Mothers and babies are
dying — not because they need to, not because they want to but because of a very sick culture right now that places process ahead of outcome
and fails to adequately prepare
and assist
mothers through the p
mothers through the process.
The posters that say «
babies die at home,
babies die in the hospital» show a remarkable lack of emotional connection for the dead
babies and their grieving
mothers and fathers etc..
Babies and mothers DO
die at hospitals
and birthing centers too — sometimes even deaths that were preventable if different choices had been made.
But without c - sections, «all
babies» will not be born — some will
die in the process,
and may take their
mothers with them to the grave.
In the year 1900, just over a century ago, one in every six American
babies died before the age of one,
and mothers were 100 times more likely to
die giving birth than they are today.
We know from the UK Birthplace study that, with fully trained MWs cooperating within the health system, tight risk - out
and 40 % transfer rate, the
babies of first - time
mothers still
die at 3X the rate of similar hospital births (quite aside from hypoxic
and physical injury).
How frustrating that obstetricians
and mothers are focusing on the such short term outcomes as whether the
baby lives or
dies, is born intact or has suffered a brain injury.
Mothers should pay them and let them recover after traumatizing them with births that veered way outside the norm and of course, it was all the mothers» fault because babies don't die all that frequently
Mothers should pay them
and let them recover after traumatizing them with births that veered way outside the norm
and of course, it was all the
mothers» fault because babies don't die all that frequently
mothers» fault because
babies don't
die all that frequently at all.
Many women fear
dying in labour, but for the most part both
mother and baby come through the procedure fine.
The reality is not «gentle proteins», cute pink hearts or «probiotics just like those in breastmilk» but dirty contaminated bottles, diarrhea,
babies screaming with pain from otitis media,
babies separated from their
mothers in pediatric wards with acute respiratory disease, damaged guts that morph into chronic lifelong conditions such as Crohn's disease, more women
dying of breast cancer, the cost
and pain of living a life with diabetes
and lives cut short because of cardiac disease
and so on.
Some important facts: 76,000
mothers and 500,000
babies die each year because of preeclampsia
and hypertensive disorder of pregnancy.
just this week we lost our 12 week old nephew co-sharing the bed with his
mother and she breastfed, she thought she crushed him when infact he
died of SIDS, top doctors here say most
babies die from these freak accidents,
and its better to not co-share at all, i have never seen a precious
baby die like this but i did just 3 days ago i would warn parents of co-sharing especially
mothers who are sleep deprived, if i can save another family from the gut wrenching emotional rollercoaster
and having to switch of life - support machines, then my job is done here, just do nt put your kids in bed with you, you do nt want to suffer like we did
and still are