Archivo etiqueta «Embarazo y parto»
By Marie Staunton, chief executive of Plan International UK (THE GUARDIAN, 13/06/10):
Giving birth in the UK is complicated. Antenatal checks, ultrasounds, blood tests, BMI indices, dating scans and more – and that’s before delivery. Giving birth in sub-Saharan Africa is simple by comparison. You can walk five hours for a basic check-up, if able. Then again, you are far less likely to survive.
Across the developing world there are none of the integrated healthcare services for expectant mothers that are universally available in the west. That means mothers-to-be have to visit up to five different healthcare providers for … Seguir leyendo
By Minette Marrin (THE TIMES, 21/06/09):
The idea that we can plan our lives is fairly new and very western. For thousands of years people assumed that their destinies were not in their own hands, but in the unpredictable grasp of gods or demons or chance or family history or destiny. Man proposes but God (or something ineffable) disposes – that was how everybody thought.
Now, however, we in the rich world imagine we can choose our fates; we can eliminate diseases, double our harvests, split the atom, uncover the mysteries of the moon and even hold back time.
This … Seguir leyendo
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/05/09:
The Op-Ed page asked experts on women’s health to suggest simple measures to improve the wellbeing of mothers around the world.
1) A BIRTH PILL. An inexpensive medicine could save lives.
By Amy Grossman
2) A DOSE OF CARE. Counseling should be an important part of food aid programs.
By Helen Epstein
3) AN EDUCATION. Make going to school affordable.
By Esther Duflo
4) A SAFER LABOR. Provide clinics with the basics to preform Caesarean deliveries.
By L. Lewis Wall
5) A CUSTOM DRUG. Research to better medicate mothers-to-be.
By … Seguir leyendo
By Amy Grossman, the communications manager at Venture Strategies for Health and Development, a nonprofit organization (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/05/09):
Every minute, a woman somewhere in the world dies in childbirth or from complications of pregnancy.
But there is an inexpensive medicine that could save a great many of these women’s lives — misoprostol.
Misoprostol is a generic drug originally developed to treat ulcers, but it’s predominately used off-label for obstetrics. When a mother takes it immediately after delivery, it can effectively stop the leading cause of maternal death in most developing countries: postpartum hemorrhage or excessive bleeding. … Seguir leyendo
By Helen Epstein, the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/05/09):
Even as the United States Agency for International Development sends hundreds of millions of dollars worth of food to developing countries, a strange but important nutritional problem is being overlooked: The children of women who suffer from severe stress and poverty sometimes seem to give up and refuse to eat. Studies suggest that this stems from maternal detachment — the breakdown of emotional connection between traumatized mothers and their children.
It isn’t a new phenomenon. … Seguir leyendo
By Esther Duflo, a professor of economics at M.I.T. (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/05/09):
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy. One reliable way to solve this problem is through education. The more affordable it is, the longer girls will stay in school and delay pregnancy.
I advise a nonprofit foundation called Innovation for Poverty Action that focuses on keeping girls in school. (We aren’t alone; lots of other terrific organizations do … Seguir leyendo
By L. Lewis Wall, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and anthropology at Washington University, and the president of the Worldwide Fistula Fund (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/05/09):
Motherhood is a blessing, but in many parts of the world childbirth leaves women permanently injured and turns them into social outcasts.
In West Africa, only about 1 percent of pregnant women have Caesarean deliveries because the procedure isn’t widely available. When labor is obstructed, the baby is trapped in the pelvis, and labor can last up to a week.
Women who survive this ordeal can develop a hole in the … Seguir leyendo
By Ruth Faden, the director of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins; Anne Drapkin Lyerly, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Duke University Hospital; and Maggie Little, a senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/05/09):
When diseases like swine flu hit, pregnant women are especially at risk. And yet we know surprisingly little about how to treat them. In its guidelines for the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that pregnant women infected or at high risk for infection should take the … Seguir leyendo
By Melanie McDonagh (THE TIMES, 09/01/09):
Rachida Dati, the French Justice Minister, has not won many friends among women this week, at least, not among right-thinking women. Not only did she return to work five days after having a baby – by Caesarean section – she was characteristically svelte for her Cabinet meeting: dark, manicured nails, spindly black heels, a jacket with leopard-print lining, the works.
The newspaper Le Figaro, ungallantly pointed out that she has a bit of a tummy, but it’s hardly noticeable. Miss Dati has declared that she has no ambitions to be a role model for … Seguir leyendo
By Tierney Temple Fairchild, an education and management consultant in Charlottesville (THE WASHINGTON POST, 01/11/08):
I had a choice, and I chose life. Does that make me pro-choice or pro-life? Our political parties tell us we can’t have it both ways. If I am pro-choice, then I must be for abortion. If I am pro-life, I may be lauded for a heroic choice when in fact none existed.
Ten years ago, I made a decision to continue a pregnancy that would lead to a child born with Down syndrome. My husband and I spent two exhausting weeks poring over … Seguir leyendo
By Charles M. Blow (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 06/09/08):
Sarah Palin has a pregnant teenager. And, she’s not alone. According to a report published in 2007, there are more than 400,000 other American girls in the same predicament.
In fact, a 2001 Unicef report said that the United States teenage birthrate was higher than any other member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The U.S. tied Hungary for the most abortions. This was in spite of the fact that girls in the U.S. were not the most sexually active. Denmark held that title. But, its teenage birthrate was … Seguir leyendo
By Ellie Levenson (THE GUARDIAN, 05/05/08):
The news isn’t good for the morning-after pill. A constitutional court ruling in Chile recently banned the public health system from distributing free emergency contraception. In some parts of the US, there are legislative attempts to make access to the pill more difficult on the grounds that it is an abortion-inducing medicine. And while doctors in Italy who refused two women emergency contraception may face sanctions, there is no shortage of political and religious leaders supporting them.
Compared with these examples, emergency contraception is pretty accessible in the UK, but pharmacists still fall short … Seguir leyendo
By Zoe Williams (THE GUARDIAN, 25/10/06):
A new study shows that women who give birth in their 50s are at no disadvantage to younger women. This doesn’t surprise me greatly. Of course everyone’s energy levels diminish over time, but there are pay-offs. Younger women waste a lot of their energy worrying. Plus, they’re more likely to be on a stupid diet. That’ll play havoc with energy levels.What is surprising is that this rather nebulous concept, “ability to cope”, has been one of the cornerstones of NHS fertility strategy pretty much since IVF was invented. Women in their 50s and 60s … Seguir leyendo
By Florence Wilcock, an obstetrician specialising in care during labour. Response to ‘Yes, we do need to know‘ (THE GUARDIAN, 19/09/06):
Annalisa Barbieri claims that women are being bullied into having caesarean sections, despite the health risks (Yes we do need to know, September 11). “Once you’ve had one C-section you often have to fight for a vaginal birth,” she said, adding that “women find themselves browbeaten into having a ‘voluntary’ C-section.”As an obstetrician working in a maternity unit, far from “browbeating” women into having caesareans I spend a large amount of time counselling women … Seguir leyendo
By Annalisa Barbieri (THE GUARDIAN, 11/09/06):
When I was pregnant, caesareans didn’t figure in my thinking. I neither considered nor planned for one: they were for celebrities or women on the verge of death. So, ending up with an emergency C-section after three days in labour was, to say the least, a shock. Suddenly all the studies about caesareans were relevant to me: I was one of the statistics.
The simple fact is that, although caesareans can be lifesaving, it’s just not how a baby is meant to be born. The latest research, published this month in the journal Birth: … Seguir leyendo
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