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Mar 2025
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S23 E5: Tragic and Horrific

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*Content warning: death of an infant, infant loss, death, birth trauma, medical trauma, medical neglect, racism, mature and stressful themes. 


*Free + Confidential Resources + Safety Tips: somethingwaswrong.com/resources   


*Sources:

American College of Nurse Midwives

https://midwife.org/ 


American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)

https://www.acog.org/ 


Birth Centers Offer Potential to Transform Maternity Care Through Community-Led Approaches that Focus on Families of Color

https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/08/19/birth-centers-offer-potential-to-transform-maternity-care-through-community-led-approaches-that-focus-on-families-of-color/ 


CDC, Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2023

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2023/maternal-mortality-rates-2023


CDC, Working Together to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality

https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/features/maternal-mortality.html 


Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice: https://blackmaternalhealth.tufts.edu/


Comparative Analysis of Therapeutic Showers and Bathtubs for Pain Management and Labor Outcomes—A Retrospective Cohort Study

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/


Fetal Heart Monitoring

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/fetal-heart-monitoring 


Fundal Height

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/22294-fundal-height 


Health Equity Among Black Women in the United States

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8020496/ 


Insights into the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis: An International Comparison

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/jun/insights-us-maternal-mortality-crisis-international-comparison 


March of Dimes

https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/about-us 


March of Dimes, Data: Heath Insurance/Income

https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/data?reg=99&top=11&stop=653&lev=1&slev=4&obj=1&sreg=48

https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/data?reg=99&top=11&stop=154&lev=1&slev=4&obj=1&sreg=48


Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC)

https://www.meacschools.org/ 


Monitoring Baby’s Heart Rate During Labor

https://familydoctor.org/monitoring-babys-heart-rate-labor/ 


Mucus Plug

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/21606-mucus-plug


Nasal Cannula

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/25187-nasal-cannula 


National Midwifery Institute

https://www.nationalmidwiferyinstitute.com/midwifery 


CDC, National Vital Statistics Reports

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-05.pdf 


North American Registry of Midwives (NARM)

https://narm.org/ 


State investigating Dallas birth center and midwives, following multiple complaints from patients

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/investigates/state-investigating-dallas-birth-center-midwives-following-multiple-complaints-from-patients/287-ea77eb18-c637-44d4-aaa2-fe8fd7a2fcef 


Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR)

https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/ 


Water breaking: Understand this sign of labor

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/labor-and-delivery/in-depth/water-breaking/art-20044142


Zucker School of Medicine, Amos Grunebaum, MD

https://faculty.medicine.hofstra.edu/13732-amos-grunebaum/publications


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