Gregory's Server@RickiTarr The people who complain about how pregnancy and birth are too "medicalised" need to check out times and places without the obstetrics care we have today. The awful rates of death in childbirth, or from infection, the impossibility in most times and places of mothers surviving C sections, the effects of childbirth, like fistulas that women in advanced countries never have to suffer now (but too many elsewhere still do.) Ah, the good old days.
|
11 comments
 @RickiTarr "Things were better then" they say of a time you could lose all six of your children to cholera in a 48 hour period. There's a large grave monument in a local cemetery for the children of a family that suffered that in the 19th century.  Oh! Oh! And don't forget things like vaccines, where 50% to 80% of all children used to die of preventable diseases! And why do we call these preventable? Because vaccines!  @RickiTarr @beecycling Unfortunately being headed towards again with US infant (and maternal) mortality. https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2569   @beecycling @RickiTarr we're not an advanced country in that respect, and we're losing ground USA is 64th in the world with 2020 data. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_maternal_mortality_ratio  |
@beecycling Awww the good ole days when the infant mortality rate was 50%