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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe it's not the focus on newborns that's causing maternal deaths. Hell, the hospitals routinely miss things like tongue-ties and low blood sugar in newborns, and at some hospitals they won't take jaundiced babies to the NICU instead making the parents hold them on a warming blanket like we're in some third world country, plus even the "baby friendly" hospitals never seem to have enough qualified and competent lactation consultants. I almost hate to suggest this because I know how sensitive people get but I wonder if the maternal deaths from conditions like HELLP which are serious but treatable if caught early, are more the result of the more focus on "natural childbirth," not necessarily epidural-free labors but more the attitude of hospitals that the vast majority of births are perfectly fine and complication-free so why not leave women alone more after birth and not treat it as a serious medical event. The natural childbirth movement picked up a lot of steam in the 90s and into the 2000s and they didn't like the continuous monitoring, women being confined to the hospital bed during labor kind of stuff, and the longer hospital stays after birth, but without that, you do lose a lot of monitoring potential to catch some of these serious issues that can come up in the few days after birth. [/quote]

Nope. Wrong. Read the article.

And those aren't "warming blankets" they are UV blankets to clear the bilirubin. Being warm doesn't clear jaundice.

And Insurance Companies were behind shorter hospital stays Post Partum. The fact that healthcare is a profit-based business is unethical. The rest of the developed world has Universal Healthcare....and lower Maternal Mortality Rates.[/quote]

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