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By 2017, the world maternal mortality rate had declined 44% since 1990; however, every day 808 women die from pregnancy or childbirth related causes. [6] According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 2017 report, about every 2 minutes a woman dies because of complications due to child birth or pregnancy. For every woman who dies ...
Maternal deaths per 100,000 births. CDC: "Maternal deaths include deaths of women while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes."
Jeanne Sconin Racine (1641), mother of Jean Racine, died while giving birth to her second child, Marie; Elisabeth of France (1644), first wife and Queen consort of Philip IV of Spain; Claude Françoise de Lorraine (1648), wife of Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine, died while giving birth to twin daughters; Marie Angélique de Scorailles (1681), noble
Black Maternal Health Week raises awareness of pregnancy, childbirth complications. Black mom shares why she chose to give birth at home instead of a hospital.
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Nearly 290,000 women around the world die in childbirth each year, and a third of those who survive develop a long-term health issue after pregnancy.
810 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. 94% occur in low and lower middle-income countries. The United Nations Population Fund estimated that 303,000 women died of pregnancy or childbirth related causes in 2015. [171]
The obstetrical dilemma is a hypothesis to explain why humans often require assistance from other humans during childbirth to avoid complications, whereas most non-human primates give birth unassisted with relatively little difficulty. This occurs due to the tight fit of the fetal head to the maternal birth canal, which is additionally ...