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The investigation found a perinatal mortality rate 2.7 times higher, and a maternal mortality rate 97 times higher than the state average. In this community, pregnant women receive no prenatal medical care and deliver at home without medical assistance. This community avoids not only prenatal medical care but all medical care. [18]
Historically, most women gave birth at home without emergency medical care available. The "natural" rate of maternal mortality—meaning without surgical or pharmaceutical intervention—has been estimated at 1,500 per 100,000 births.
“Giving birth to my son without any medical help in the jail shower was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life,” Caswell said in a news release issued by Pregnancy Justice, a legal ...
The primary goal of the Bradley method is healthy mothers and healthy babies. The method holds that, in most circumstances, a natural (drug-free) childbirth is the best way to achieve that goal. Proponents of the Bradley Method claim that 86 percent of mothers who follow the method have vaginal births without drugs. [2]
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For women ages 40–44, the birth rate increased 4 percent between 2021 and 2022 (and has been continually inching up since 1985), while the birth rate for women ages 45 and over increased 12 percent.
Melodi Stone, a black doula and reproductive justice advocate in Birmingham, said that because black women’s pregnancies are more likely to be high-risk (they have greater incidence of obesity, high blood pressure and other factors), they may not qualify to give birth at home with midwives. Even if they are eligible, the cost is expected to ...
"You want to make everything possible for that parent," says Chappell, who credits the mother for taking all the right steps after unexpectedly giving birth at home. The woman was in the bathroom ...