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Making Pregnancy Safer for Women of Color

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/14/opinion/pregnancy-safer-women-color.html   On its face, Joseph’s prenatal and postpartum clinic might not seem unusual. But when you look into her statistics, you find something quite rare: Almost all of her patients give birth to healthy, full-term babies. Again, maybe not surprising until you learn that the majority of them are low-income African-Americans, Haitians and Latinas.Continue reading “Making Pregnancy Safer for Women of Color”

Cesarean Rates and State Rankings Within the US

http://birthmonopoly.com/birth-map/ -CLICK LINK ABOVE TO VIEW MAP and see current statistics- This map shows rates and rankings for U.S. states, with the states in five groups of ten (plus D.C.). The lowest rates of Cesarean are in the lightest color, to the highest rates in the darkest. California currently has a 33.2% c-section rate, 20thContinue reading “Cesarean Rates and State Rankings Within the US”