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I just want to drive this point home. To the extent that insurance and location will allow, pick your provider (and birth center) like your life depends on it. Ask them their stance on your maternal mortality risks and believe them if their response is unsatisfactory or dismissive. If a child has asthma …
A preconception visit is designed to reduce the risk of adverse health outcomes based on modifiable risk factors. It is used to optimize health and provide individualized education. Any patient with reproductive potential is a candidate for pre pregnancy counseling, regardless of relationship status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Black women are at …
Former ACOG President, Dr. Haywood Brown said, “The relationship between stress and how we respond to that stress physiologically has well-documented associations with prematurity and cardiovascular disease. The “microaggressions” that black women endure throughout their lives also make them predisposed to chronic conditions that can make a pregnancy high risk, such as hypertension and diabetes. …
Black Maternal Mortality: The Background It was a 2016 article published in the Green Journal entitled “Recent Increases in the U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate” that jumpstarted the national conversation on maternal mortality. This article reported a 26.6% increase in maternal mortality from 2000 to 2014 for 48 states and Washington, DC (California and Texas were analyzed …