Quotes About Maternal health

Before I was pregnant, I felt strong but not fit.

active phase cannot be reliably defined until 6 cm of dilation.

however, if the progress is prolonged or uterine contractions are inadequate, oxytocin is an option.

To prevent the death of mothers across our country, we must expand research, implement researched best practices, and fiercely work to understand why African American, Hispanic, and Native American mothers die at even higher rates than white mothers.

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

Black women are three times as likely to die giving birth or shortly after birth as white women. Black women in the United States die having a child at roughly the same rate as women in Mongolia.

But when you have a baby inside you, you're like 'Whoa!' Anything can happen here, I've got to give this baby all the nutrients it needs and really take care of myself, so this is definitely the healthiest I've ever been in my life.

Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

morning sickness typically starts four to six weeks after conception and disappears by fourteen to fifteen weeks.

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

In order to improve maternal health, we have to focus on improving all women's health and access to care - not just during labor and delivery, but before and after pregnancy, and throughout our lives.

Protecting the lives of women in childbirth and in their postpartum months should be a common priority.

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

Pregnancies spaced too closely together lead to increased rates of infant mortality.

On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.

After delivering my daughter in 2003, I endured and survived a hemorrhage, the leading childbirth-related complication that takes the lives of thousands of other mothers all over the world.

Women's bodies are meant to store fat so that we can do amazing things like have babies or rock a tight pair of jeans.

If Mom is healthy, then her child is more likely to thrive, more likely to have a better quality of life and, ultimately, better able to provide for his or herself.

mothers suffered from major nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. When the children reached school age, 21 percent scored 130 or more points on a standard IQ test, a level considered gifted. If their mothers had no morning sickness, only 7 percent of kids did that well. The researchers have a theory—still to be proven—about why. Two hormones that stimulate a woman to vomit may also act like neural fertilizer for the developing brain.

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

In medicine, we refer to pregnancy as a physiological stress test.