While Hispanic women are less likely to die during childbirth than some other groups, they are at a higher risk for “near miss” severe morbidity events, especially compared to white women. “Those morbidity rates are affecting our families, and our mothers, in the long run,” she said. ...
Women are held responsible for the relational health of the world – at work, at home, family health and wellbeing, the sexuality, the promiscuity, the cause, the cure and the results. When a true perpetrator arises in a family, the mother protects ala Mama Bear. If she doesn’t die t...
Many of these projects focus on outcomes that disproportionately impact Black people during pregnancy and childbirth. We're including advisory boards of people from Black and brown communities, giving them decision-making capacity and integrating their experience into our work. This is in addition to ...
The critical mass was, however many people, wherever you want to sort of split hairs, however many people that took before everyone went, “Oh, it's okay to go dance now because it's not weird.” Gabriel Weinberg: [00:05:15] Yeah. There's a lot of like related mental models. So...
Take, for example, this fact: The U.S. has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the developed world, a dismal ranking that is largely driven by persistent racial disparities in pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths. Black women arethree times more likelyto die from pregnancy-related is...
the uterus to the outside of the body, and its opening is covered by sets of folded skin called labia. The vagina receives the male's penis during sexual intercourse and delivers the baby during childbirth. The vagina is normally narrow, but can stretch during intercourse and childbirth. ...
I’m the kind of person who will think about how many people are going to die before I die, and how many times life has repeated itself, and still live. I want to improve my personality by becoming the kindest, most loving, and least critical person ever, but at the same time I’...
Today, such prophylactic mastectomies with reconstruction have become a reassurance for many young women who have seen their mothers and aunts and grandmothers die from aggressive cancers and who want to reduce their own hereditary risks. For these women, who don’t want to lose the femininity or...
That pronouncement roundly discredited popular, though misguided, superstitions that intercourse and orgasmic contractions could potentially rupture a uterus or induce childbirth too soon. In fact, a woman's libido may crest during her second trimester due to pregnancy-related lubrication and engorgement ...
When we push ourselves at the gym. When we give up fun with friends to study for a test. When we go through childbirth. When we put in long days of hard work. When we discipline a child. We do it because we believe thebenefitswill outweigh the suffering, and the same stands true ...