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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read the article and I'm not sure that I follow the article's conclusion that the focus on the newborn is leading to a higher maternal mortality rate. In the case of the mother in the article who died from HELLP, that was medical negligence, in terms of not properly charting and communicating to doctors the woman's blood pressure and complaints of serious pain after birth. I'm not saying this to be obtuse or combatitive, but I don't see how that has anything to do with her newborn. But the overall point does stand that newborns receive MUCH better care, post birth, than new moms do. But then I hear all these complaints from my friends in the U.K. regarding their health visitors in their homes post-partum and that doesn't seem great either ... but maybe it's working if they have such a low maternal mortality rate?[/quote]

What complaints are you hearing? My friends in the U.K. think it's amazing and can't understand why we don't do the same here. [/quote]

Just that the quality of the health visitors really varies - some are great and some are poor and have poor bedside manner. It also sounds like they focus more on the baby than the mother, especially with pushing breastfeeding at all costs, and ignoring postpartum mood disorders. But they also can't fathom why we don't have anything like that in the US, so it sounds like something where people try to take the good with the bad. [/quote]

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