Most young people in Korea view marriage and childbirth with mix of sadness, fear, disgust https://www.byteseu.com/833455/ #Childbirth #emotions #FertilityRate #HankookIlbo #KoreanPeninsulaPopulationInstituteForFuture #KPPIF #marriage #Negative #NegativeEmotions #Pandemic #ParentalLeave #parenting #perceptions #Policy #Research #SouthKorea #StatisticsKorea #Study #WorkplaceChildCareSupportPolicies #YooHyeJung #YoungPeople
Africa: Cameroon Prepares to Launch National Strategy On Maternal Health: [Africa CDC] For many women in Cameroon, childbirth remains a significant health risk. Despite medical advancements, the country continues to have one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the region. In 2020, an estimated 438 women per 100,000 live births died from pregnancy-related complications, according to… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJQpBC #MaternalHealth #Cameroon #HealthForAll #WomenEmpowerment #Childbirth
Ukraine Daily summary - Tuesday, February 25 2025
Zelensky sent Trump list of all 'ceasefires' violated by Russia -- Russia's Ryazan oil refinery halts operations following latest drone strike -- How Ukraine has pushed back and held the line against Russia for 3 years -- UN adopts Ukraine's resolution condemning Russia's invasion; US, Russia, Belarus vote against -- and more
‘Prison will never be a safe place to be pregnant’ – campaigner – Channel 4 News
https://www.channel4.com/news/prison-will-never-be-a-safe-place-to-be-pregnant-campaigner
Exclusive: Pregnant prisoners ‘forced to wear handcuffs in labour’ – Channel 4 News
https://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-pregnant-prisoners-forced-to-wear-handcuffs-in-labour
'#Pregnant #women in countries like #SierraLeone and #Kenya are around 100 times more likely to die during #pregnancy or #childbirth than those in countries like #Norway, #Sweden, or #Germany. But it doesn’t have to be this way. We could save hundreds of thousands of lives a year by closing these gaps.'
https://ourworldindata.org/maternal-deaths-save-mothers
SSM Health launches first-in-state post-birth alert program | News https://www.byteseu.com/706888/ #Childbirth #Health #PostpartumPeriod #women
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began by Leah Hazard, 2023
A landmark book on the womb - its history, its present and the possibilities for its future - by the bestselling author of Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story' A gripping exploration of the science of the uterus, the politics of medicine and the future of reproductive freedom'
Is the rise of C-section births to do with pressures related to the NHS crisis? Or are their other drivers to the swift expansion of C-sections to over two-fifths of al UK births?
Whatever the cause, it doesn't look good for either mothers or their (new) children.
#WarOnGender //\\ "War on Gender"
#ChildBirth #FWakeChild //\\
Fur and loathing: do America’s ‘childless cat ladies’ hold the key to the US election? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/03/fur-and-loathing-do-americas-childless-cat-ladies-hold-the-key-to-the-us-election #Parentsandparenting #KamalaHarris #TaylorSwift #USpolitics #Childbirth #Family #Pets
“See, these are just some of the ways #women die during #childbirth, & I don’t want to be a downer y’all, but in many cases, there is no warning, & things go bad very quickly, & when it happens, every second of hesitation or delay can lead to devastating outcomes.”
In German #folklore , it was a common belief that a woman should not leave the house for six weeks after #childbirth .
While this is cloaked in superstition ("...or else the Devil will get you!") the end effect was still that new mothers were allowed to _rest_ for six weeks and recover from their ordeals.
Compare this to (say) the #USA where women are only entitled to some unpaid leave in such a circumstance - and most only take a few days off because they can't afford to do otherwise.
Mind you, I am not saying that living and working conditions in previous centuries were great - as a rule, they weren't.
But there was a keen awareness among the working classes that people needed _rest_ from time to time - something that is often forgotten in this day and age.
A medieval English birth girdle, an amulet offering protection for women during childbirth. It's inscribed with protective prayers, charms and other talismans.
One of over 130 items featured in our upcoming exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words!
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2024/09/medieval-women-1-month-to-go.html
Medieval Manuscripts
@BLMedieval
The number of women in Texas who 
— far outpacing a slower rise in maternal mortality across the nation, a new investigation of federal public health data finds.
#Georgia's #abortion #ban #killed a #young #mother. The #ChristianRight engaging in victim blaiming
#Antichoice #extremists argue that if #AmberNicoleThurman had #submitted to #forced #childbirth, she'd still be #alive
Opening line of a penultimate chapter in my WIP with the extremely pregnant MC: Genevieve awoke the next morning with a persistent dull ache in her lower back and a plan.
Anyone who has ever had anything to do with childbirth: ah, your plan better involve a midwife and a safe, clean bed.
Genevieve: nope!
Bonsitu Kitaba, deputy #legal dir for the #ACLU of #Michigan, argued MI's ban on #Medicaid coverage for #abortion creates a "two-tiered system" between those who can afford #private #HealthInsurance for terminating a pregnancy & those who cannot. The deprivation, Kitaba said, infringes on the fundamental right to #ReproductiveFreedom & is #discriminatory since Medicaid covers #childbirth but not abortion.
