Women’s Health

Women’s Health

Giving birth is not as easy as it seems. A mother is the only person who can tell what goes on as even the midwives find it hard to understand. There are a lot of challenges that come with giving birth, and some are not easy to escape as they are uncontrollable. In the united states, their mothers face many challenges. These challenges include maternal deaths, lack of access to midwives, the stress of pregnant immigrants’ women and high-risk pregnancies.

Maternal deaths are risky in which the pregnant women die during pregnancy or while giving birth. This kind of situation has affected women in Louisiana state, and it’s a crisis which needs to be looked into (Bain,2018). During prenatal care, the mother faces a lot of risks as she is not used to the kind of life, and she has to adjust to it. She has to live a life that is away from what life she is used to and live in favour of the child.

Midwives are a key thing in when it comes to taking care of pregnancies and giving birth. A mother has to be given special care during this period to help in the growth and development of the child. Pregnant women are not allowed to carry out heavy tasks, and they thus need a helper.

In Louisiana, state mothers stand an advantage in that they receive Medicare and the insurance companies take care of the expenses incurred during delivery (Knight, 2016). There are taken care of in the hospital and given the best care support to prevent them from facing the challenges stated above.

There are also challenges that mother in other states face which is stress for immigrants’ pregnant women. They are stressed due to lack of assuring that they will be given the best care during this time. As an immigrant, one is not in apposition to secure good medical care, and thus there is a risk that a mother will be stressed and thus pose a risk to the unborn baby, and it may lead to miscarriage or death of the mother.

Reference

Bain, L. E., & Kongnyuy, E. J. (2018). Legal and ethical considerations during maternal death surveillance and response. African journal of reproductive health, 22(2), 17-25.

Knight, M., Acosta, C., Brocklehurst, P., Cheshire, A., Fitzpatrick, K., Hinton, L., … & Lindquist, A. (2016). Beyond maternal death: improving the quality of maternal care through national studies of ‘near-miss’ maternal morbidity.