Sentences with phrase «dying at childbirth»

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She described how she has witnessed a woman get stuck at 7 cm (or whatever) for hours on end with no apparent physical reason, only to later discover that this women's mother died in childbirth, so this woman was afraid she would die too.

My point is that if you are going to rely on a historical based fear of women and babies dieing in childbirth (which they did and still do) then it is important to look at the correlations and significant factors so you can consciously choose if you want to continue acting from that fear based model.

Last year, the Associated Press reported that U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, with the jump in C - sections partly to blame.

The intent was not likely malicious; you solicited the services of the doctor willingly; it is not sexual; it denigrates «real» rape; you got a healthy baby at the end of it; you should have said «No» more clearly; you should have been more educated; be glad you're alive — women used to die in childbirth all the time; if you didn't want hands or instruments up your vagina, you shouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place; it was for your own good.

If you look at what women are actually dying from during childbirth in the US, it's all chronic medical conditions that were exacerbated by the stresses of pregnancy and childbirth, often because the dead mothers are black and / or poor and didn't have access to primary healthcare before becoming pregnant.

If by definition the ultimate measure of evolutionary success is reproducing successfully, the fact that women and newborns frequently died in childbirth suggests that powerful selective forces must be at work.

At least a third of a million women in the world's poorest countries die each year during pregnancy and childbirth, according to the Department for International Development (DfID).

His work at a firm of solicitors has been unsatisfactory, and he needs to support his son, Joseph (Misha Handley), because his wife died four years ago in childbirth.

In a few years she'd have been expected to marry anyway, and given the frequency of women dying in childbirth, it wasn't at all unusual for widowers to remarry quickly and to expect their new wives to raise their children.

Looking at her semi-abstracted portraits of mothers and children, which evoke both the Post-Impressionists and Piero della Francesca, you wonder what else she might have accomplished had she not died at 31 from complications of childbirth.

See related article on our Patient Safety Blog: Women Dying in Childbirth in U.S. — A Preventable Tragedy Lubin & Meyer Maternal Death Case Prompts State Probe at MetroWest Medical Center

4x more likely to suffer from hunger & malnutrition 9x more likely to die at birth 10x more likely to contract HIV 12x more likely to die before the age of 5 65x more likely to have mother die in childbirth 67x more likely to contract tuberculosis