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“We used to think that when the mother has swollen feet she is pregnant with twins, but now we know that when we see a mother with swollen feet, it is important for that mother to go to the health unit.” In 2015, 19 out of every 1,000 babies born...
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A post from the Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group stillbirths series by Paula Quigley Nigeria has the second highest rate of stillbirths in the world at 42.9 per 1,000 total births as well as the second highest absolute number of stillbirths, estimated at 314,000 in 2015.[i] While the whole country faces...
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I was born and raised in a poor mountainous region of Tay Nguyen in Vietnam. The health care services for women and children at this place is still underdeveloped. The hospitals are miles away and most of the newborns and their mothers are taken care by the midwives. My mother...
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Originally posted on Patientsafetyfirst This blog is my response to this article, by Prof Soo Downe. The blog states that there is ‘little controversy about the benefits of normal physiological birth for healthy mothers and babies’. In fact, there are controversies around some of the claims that are promoted about the...
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By: Joy Marini, MS, PA-C, and Winnie Mwebesa, MD. Originally posted on Global Citizen "I always imagine that the babies might become someone important in life, or do something great." Hours away from bustling Kampala, in a rural district of central Uganda, the sound of a hungry newborn crying echoes...
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