Sentences with phrase «because high infant mortality»

Marc Morano: But when you don't need to have as many kids because they don't survive a childhood you tend to have less kids if you're not thinking I need to have X amount because high infant mortality rates, which is what we're seeing around the world which are...

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Life expectancy was low because infant mortality was unusually high and because the lack of antibiotics.

It was done because the infant mortality rate was so high, and the faithful wanted to make sure their little ones wouldn't be denied a place in Heaven if they passed.

It is estimated that infant mortality could have been as high as 1 in 5 at the beginning of the 19th century when many infants were fed a flour and water «formula» instead of being breastfed — not necessarily because of inherently dangerous birth practices.

It's infant mortality that the US suffers in, not perinatal / neonatal (eg; very shortly after birth)-- and surprise surprise, it's pretty much for the same reason we have a high maternal mortality — in the US, poor people can't / don't have access to skilled health care until it's an emergency, because then they can't refuse you.

Doctors and childcare experts still considered breastfeeding best, no doubt in part because of the high infant mortality rates occurring in the burgeoning cities that had limited access to fresh, clean cow's milk.

In the 1800s breastfeeding of infants was understood to be the «gold standard» of nutrition, and a baby who was bottle - fed was regarded with pity because of the high mortality rate associated with this inferior method.

Which is really too bad because we have an urgent problem in America: our maternal mortality rate is among THE HIGHEST in the industrialized world (depending on the index you look at), our infant mortality rates are unacceptable, the inequalities in the way women of color and poor women are treated is literally a human right crisis, our new moms suffer from postpartum depression mores than so many other countries, and in many ways we have taken the joy and awe out of childbirth and infancy.

Women in poor Africa have lots of children not necessarily because their husbands force them to or because the pope denies them condoms (modern Malthusian prejudices), but because in parts of the world where infant mortality is high, and where there is no welfare system to see you through old age, having a large family is perfectly rational and well - informed.