[Sca-cooks] Maternal Mortality
Suey
lordhunt at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 20:29:16 PDT 2007
Suey wrote:
> John le Burguillun wrote:
>
>>> maternal mortality is on the increase in the
>>> US for the 1st
>>> time in years, possibly due to a combination of increased maternal
>>> obesity
>>> and older women becoming mothers.
>>>
>>> Laura C. Minnick answered him saying: The high rate of Cesarean
>>> sections
>>> come into play here too- we don't think of it as such, but a section is
>>> major abdominal surgery, with all of the attendant risks. More risk,
>>> perhaps, because the insurance companies push for early discharge
>>> for the
>>> mothers, who then get to go home and cope with post-op while caring
>>> for a
>>> newborn (and
>>> sometimes other children). Last study I read indicated that the post-op
>>> infection rate has done up, as well as blood loss issues.
>>>
>>>
>>>
> Cristina Alonso, Founder and Director of Luna Maya Birth Center,
Chiapas, Mexico asked me to send you her comments on this matter as follows:
>
> "Maternal mortality has not decreased in the US for the past 10
years and
> infant mortality has slowly increased in the last 10 years. As you
say, the
> obscene use of unnecessary interventions is leading to maternal
deaths. In
> addition to the extremely high use of major abdominal surgery with single
> stitching is also the use of misoprostol for induction of labor. Ina May
> Gasking is working on a quilt to document these maternal deaths by use of
> misoprostol which is NOT recommended for induction of childbirth.
> "In medieval times women died of post partum fever mostly, as well as
> obstructed labor- which is now resolved by cesarean. Its ironic that
a life
> saving surgery has now turned into life threatening ritual of modern
> society.
> "It seems therefore that throughout time childbirth has
represented a space
> where womens lives are endangered, not necessarily by the inherent
risk of
> homo sapiens but due to the inherent risk of absurd rituals that cultures
> adhere to masking our fear of women's power and life transforming
processes."
>
> Suey
>
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