RESOURCES
- Serious Postpartum Complications Women Can Face
- Serena Williams Opens Up About Postpartum Complications After Giving Birth to Daughter Alexis
- Why are more American women dying after childbirth?
- Everyone’s Missing the Obvious About the Declining U.S. Birth Rate
- Hospitals know how to protect mothers. They just aren’t doing it.
- Stroke Symptoms in Pregnancy
- Post-partum Support International
- Every Mother Counts
- March of Dimes
- 4Kira4moms
- Optimizing Post-partum Care
Education
Birth Facts
- 4 out of 5 maternal deaths occur in the weeks and months prior to or after birth.
- 700 women die each year as a result of pregnancy or delivery complications
- Another 62,000 women per year experience a close call
- American women are 50% more likely to die from childbirth than their mothers
Know your rights
- You have the right to respectful care by competent personnel.
- Except for emergencies, a physician must obtain necessary informed consent prior to the start of any procedure or treatment, or both.
- A patient has the right to full information in laymen's terms, concerning her diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis, including information about alternative treatments and possible complications. When it is not possible or medically advisable to give such information to the patient, the information shall be given on her behalf to the patient's designee.
