While the risk of death from childbirth is very small, more and more U.S. women are dying due to, what experts believe to be partly to blame, the increasing maternal obesity and the rise in Caesarean sections.
Rising to its highest U.S. maternal mortality rate in decades, it accounts for 13 deaths in 100,000 live births in 2004, according to statistics released by the National Center for Health Statistics. While the death of infants is much more common, with the nations infant mortality rate at 679 per 100,000 live births in 2004, death from childbirth remains fairly rare in the United States.
Deaths from childbirth were a much more common tragedy 90 years ago where nearly one in every 100 live births resulted in a mother’s death. However, many people find it hard to understand how in this age of hi-tech hospital facilities and advanced medical breakthroughs that maternal deaths still happen just like that.
The rising C-section rate at 29 percent of all births have been related to anesthesia, infection, and blood clots. One of the leading causes of pregnancy-related death is excessive bleeding, followed by blood vessel blockages and infections....
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