What to look for on Smart Talk Monday, March 18, 2019:
Giving birth to a child is one of the most significant events in a woman’s life. It is also one of the most dangerous.
It is difficult to believe that in a modern medical era women still die from childbirth complications. In fact, while maternal mortality in the world has declined, rates in the U.S have increased.
Approximately 700 women die each year in the U.S. as a result of pregnancy or pregnancy‐related complications. For every woman that dies, dozens more experience severe complications.
For minority women, the risk is even greater. Black women are dying at three to four times the rate of white women after childbirth.
What is killing these mothers? Are these deaths preventable?
Appearing on Smart Talk to discuss factors affecting maternal mortality are Dr. Rebecca Sieber, M.D., OB-GYN, Lancaster Physicians for Women, Lancaster General Hospital, Dr. Jason Baxter, M.D., Associate Professor, OB-GYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and member of the Pennsylvania Maternal Mortality Review Committee, and Dolores Smith, mission director maternal and child health, March of Dimes in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and South Jersey.
Dr. Rebecca Sieber, OB/GYN
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