#maternal death

[coochiequeens]

This is why I can’t stand those stories about celebrities having kids through surrogates. They downplay the risks to the mother who goes through pregnancy and childbirth.

Fake or not, I mean I really hate to think of four kids dealing with an aunt/mom so oblivious to how those boys lost their mom so young and unwilling to modify plans but surrogacy does pose increased risks to the mothers and children they carry

“At the recent United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, The Heritage Foundation and the Center for Family and Human Rights drew attention to surrogacy and the dangers it poses to women at an event  that highlighted several instances of women who had been trafficked, rendered infertile, or even died as a result of surrogacy. Michelle Reaves was one such surrogate mother from California. She lost her life last year while delivering a baby for someone else, leaving her own son and daughter motherless and her husband a widower.

By its very nature, surrogacy commodifies both a woman’s body as well as that of the child. The women targeted to become a surrogate by the multi-billion-dollar fertility industry are often wooed by the opportunity to make tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for renting their body. In some cases, a surrogate arrangement is altruistic—perhaps the surrogate mother may want to help a friend or family member who desperately wants a baby, and she does not profit financially from the exchange. Nevertheless, regardless of the circumstances or motivation, in a surrogacy arrangement a woman’s body is used as a conduit for a transaction that provides a baby for someone else—and the risks for both her, and the baby, are significant.

Whether a surrogate mother is compensated or not, serious concerns involving health risks to mothers and babies remain, and the rights of children must not be ignored.

Children who are born as the result of a surrogacy arrangement are more likely to have low birth weights and are at an increased risk for stillbirth. When a woman carries a child conceived from an egg that is not her own—a traditional gestational surrogate arrangement—she is at a three-fold risk of developing hypertension and pre-eclampsia. Egg donors have spoken up about experiencing conditions such as loss of fertility, blood clots, kidney disease, premature menopause, and cancer, and the lack of data and studies on both short and long term health outcomes for egg donors makes true informed consent unattainable. While scientists do not fully understand the scope of these health considerations, it is clear that for both short and long-term outcomes, surrogacy is a frontier of unknowns; children, egg donors, and surrogate mothers may pay a physical or psychological price nobody yet fully knows or understands.”

[odinsblog]

Krystal Anderson, a former cheerleader for the Kansas City Chiefs, died of sepsis last week following a stillbirth, according to her family. She was 40 years old.

Anderson, known to her friends as “Krissy,” was hospitalized at five months pregnant and delivered her daughter, Charlotte Willow, after doctors were unable to locate a heartbeat, friends told FOX4 News. She developed a fever a day after the birth. Her condition worsened and she battled sepsis, which eventually led to organ failure. Despite being placed on life support and undergoing three surgeries, she died early Wednesday morning.

“I feel lost,” her husband, Clayton Anderson, told the station. “There’s a lot of people in this house and it feels empty.”

In her post-NFL career, Anderson taught yoga and worked as a software engineer at Oracle Health. She “fiercely advocated” for both Black women in STEM and women’s health, according to an obituary. She also had a philanthropic streak, and worked with Big Brothers and Big Sisters of KC, the perinatal bereavement nonprofit Gabriella’s Little Library, and the Oracle Health Foundation.

“She was an absolute force for good. She made every room just light up,” her husband said.

While overall maternal deaths in the U.S. have steadily ticked up over the past two decades, Black women remain two to three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With the risks to Black mothers exacerbated by implicit bias and medical racism, they are also more likely to experience life-threatening complications like preeclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, and blood clots.

“It’s, you know, we say, the best country in the world, right?” Anderson’s husband told FOX4 News. “Not if you’re a Black pregnant woman, it’s not—and that needs to change.”

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[bumblepony]

So everyone who loves a Joel centric story should absolutely positively read this one. It's Joel's first day with Sarah. And it's heartbreaking and just glorious in its sadness and it's stunning storytelling.

Be prepared for the feels because they are definitely there. This is a story where Joel was very much in love with the mother of Sarah. It is a must read, quintessential The Last of Us extra storytelling.

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for creating a vessel to bring my mother back to life?

I (1000+F) unfortunately lost my mother many years ago, and her remains were desecrated by her killer. I was able to retrieve her heart, which for our species is more of a stone containing the being's essence. I began to do experiments to try to bring her back to life, which included building flesh vessels to try to contain her essence, powered by my mother's heart. Unfortunately, many of these vessels were weak and died. One (20F) survived; but as this vessel grew to adulthood it became clear that, instead of becoming my mother, she had developed her own consciousness and personality. She fell in love with a friend of mine (300+M) and they had a child together; however, the pregnancy was difficult, and it became clear that either mother or child was going to die. The failed vessel begged me to save the child, and I did it the only way I knew how — I removed the heart stone from her body and implanted it into the child. She died and the child survived; however, the child has turned out distinctly... odd. It does not cry, or show any emotional response to the world around it, and though it has a pulse, it has no heartbeat. Though this was a natural born child who by all rights should have been a person in their own right, I cannot help hoping that perhaps this child will in time become my mother's true vessel and means of returning to me. AITA?

[sy666th]

"She had seen that the finger of Death was upon her bosom—that, like the Ephemeron, she had been made perfect in loveliness only to die; but the terrors of the grave to her lay solely in a consideration which she revealed to me, one evening at twilight, by the banks of the River of Silence."

Edgar Allan Poe (Eleonora)

Isabella Casati newsstand, sculptor Enrico Butti Known as "The Dying", the bronze sculpture was created between 1890 and 1891 by the famous Varese sculptor Enrico Butti on commission from Count Gian Luigi Casati Brioschi, widower of the late Isabella, who died in childbirth in 1889 at just twenty-four years of age . The young woman, descendant of the noble Airoldi family of Robbiate, is portrayed in the moment of her passing, lying lifeless on her deathbed, covered with a cloth that leaves her breast exposed, on which a crucifix is placed. Her face is turned to the side of her, her eyes squeezed shut and strands of hair scattered across her pillow. The expression is relaxed and serene, of that peace that mysteriously comes after death. In the panel behind her, made of Simona della Valcamonica stone, there is a bronze disc in which angelic hosts are depicted who ideally accompany the young woman into the afterlife. The delicate sensuality that the sculpture transmits is truly touching, so much so that it makes it one of the most poignant and admired works of the Monumentale in Milan. A work suspended between realism and symbolism, it provoked more than one criticism at the time of its inauguration, as bare breasts were considered inappropriate for a funeral context.

[lenterablog]

5 Penyebab Utama Kematian Ibu di Indonesia

Kematian ibu (maternal death) menurut definisi WHO adalah kematian selama kehamilan atau dalam periode 42 hari setelah berakhirnya kehamilan, akibat semua sebab yang terkait dengan atau diperberat oleh kehamilan atau penanganannya, tetapi bukan disebabkan oleh kecelakaan/cedera. Penyebab utama kematian ibu diklasifikasikan sebagai langsung  dan tidak langsung. Penyebab langsung: berhubungan…

[heavensmockery]

Jokes aside I see a pattern in my kinlist, two losing their mother and one being so haunted by it that it ruins his life at some degree and the to the other it's in the list of the most painful things that happen. And now it still somewhat repeats itself. God my heart is ACHING. But I know this sadness needs to be felt

[mypage4sure]

"She (Alyssa) gave birth to their third son and a few months later died of what, the maesters will tell you were complications from childbirth. The obvious issue with that is that she gave birth months prior to that. And when she was done she seemed to be completely fine. She certainly felt well enough to tell her husband that she wanted to do it 20 more times, yet poof dead and her newborn son followed her to the grave six months later."

okay correct me if I'm wrong, but does this seem like weird reasoning? Like I'm not even against the idea that the Maesters caused the Dance of the dragons, but isn't it possible to die in child birth even if you are in good health and the past child births went great?

[coochiequeens]

Today in Women’s History on March 5, 1839 Charlotte Brontë rejected a marriage proposal to support her brothers career. Instead becomes successful in her own right.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/charlotte-bronte-declines-marriage

Charlotte Brontë declines marriage

Charlotte Brontë writes to the Reverend Henry Nussey, declining marriage. The 23-year-old Brontë told him that he would find her “romantic and eccentric” and not practical enough to be a clergyman’s wife. Rather than marry, Brontë struggled as a teacher and governess to help support her brother Branwell’s literary aspirations. In the end, Branwell’s excesses destroyed him; his sisters, though, all became literary figures.

Charlotte was born in 1816, one of six siblings born to an Anglican clergyman. When she was five, the family moved to the remote village of Haworth on the moors of Yorkshire. The gloomy parsonage produced some of the best-known novels in English literature. Brontë's mother died in 1821, and Charlotte and her older sisters were sent to the Cowan Bridge School, a cheap boarding school for daughters of the clergy. However, her two sisters fell ill and died, and Charlotte was brought home, where she and her remaining siblings, Branwell, Emily, and Anne, invented and wrote about elaborate fantasy worlds to amuse themselves.

Shortly after declining the proposal of Reverend Nussey, Charlotte went to Brussels with her sister Emily to study languages and school administration. Returning to the parsonage at Haworth, the sisters attempted to set up their own school, but no pupils registered. Meanwhile, their adored brother Branwell was becoming a heavy drinker and opium user. When Anne got him a job teaching with her at a wealthy manor, he lost both their positions after a tryst with the mother of the house. He eventually died after accidentally setting his bed on fire.

In 1846, Charlotte ran across some poems that Emily had written, which led to the revelation that all three sisters were closet poets. The sisters published their own book,  Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Only two copies sold, but publishers became interested in the sisters’ work. Charlotte, under the nom de plume Currer Bell, published Jane Eyre in 1847. Emily’s Wuthering Heights and Anne’s Agnes Grey were published later that year. Sadly, all three of Charlotte’s siblings died within the next two years. Left alone, Charlotte cared for her ill father and married his curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls, just a year after she published Villette, a novel inspired by a failed romance she had in Brussels years before. Charlotte died during a pregnancy shortly after the marriage.

[girlinafairytale]

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[mental-mona]

TL;DR: The CDC's methodology ends up counting all deaths of a pregnant person, or sometimes even one who was pregnant at some point in the past, regardless of the actual cause of death. These researchers point out that things like car accidents should NOT fall into that category, as they are unrelated to the pregnancy itself. When the researchers counted only deaths where pregnancy was listed among the causes on the death certificate, it turns out that maternal death rates have pretty much stayed steady since 2002, with just over 10 deaths per 100,000 live births. This is in line with other countries' maternal death rates.

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for saving one boy when I could have saved three others?

So I (17f) am a ghost. And since I can't get revenge on the person who killed me, I've decided to protect a boy, J (9). J got bullied all his life by his brother T and T's friends (all male, 14-15). Because J's mother dying during childbirth was J's fault??

I can barely interact with the physical world. It drains my ghost powers. But I have been trying to help him against them. Throwing all their clothes on the branches when they went swimming. That kinda thing.

But then these idiots decided it would be funny to go to this abandoned house with J. To scare him and all that. And one of them had the great idea to start a fire.

The fire spread pretty fast and I immediately got J out of there, told him to stay where he was and got back in to save the rest. It was already draining my powers, but I knew I could save them if I was quick.

But J wanted to help and got back into the fire, only to have burning wood fall on top of him. Getting him back out there would drain my remaining power, but so would saving the other 3.

I know some people would have saved the 3 boys because it saves more lives and all that, but I saved J. Those guys bullied him and decided to start a fire. He was an innocent victim in all this and got his face badly burnt because of them.

But I still feel guilty because I couldn't save all of them

[sohaibsmart]

The Gates Basis annual funds for 2024 is its largest but

The Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis authorised its largest annual funds ever, committing $8.6 billion to assist plug gaps in total support for well being applications on this planet’s poorest nations. The spending improve in 2024 will assist a variety of targets together with the eradication of polio, improvement of latest tuberculosis medicine, and supply of provides to stem little one and…

[gordicore]

A couple of months ago, my mom died. Yeah we did go through fights and stuff, but I still miss her. The image of my mom's deceased corpse lying on the hospital bed still haunts me. I cry almost every single night. I miss her so much and I wish I told her how much I loved her, even if she can be shitty sometimes