Rate This Blog
 0 rating(s)
Categories
• CARE
• Poverty • Empowerment • Women • Myanmar • Disaster • Relief • Food • Aid • CARE National Conference • Education • Maternal Health • HIV and AIDS • India • Trip to field • Children • Dr. Helene Gayle • Village Savings and Loan • Microfinance • Girls • Haiti • Africa • Climate Change • Gaza • Emergency • Pakistan • Asia • Refugee • IDP • War • Conflict • Disease • Health • Natural Disaster • Earthquake • Haiti Earthquake • Shelter • Floods • Drought • Niger • Haiti Hurricane • Haiti cholera • Japan • Dadaab • Kenya • Somalia • Water • Ethiopia • Violence • Humanitarian • Syria • Jordan • DRC • Lesotho
Archives
• Current Entries
• June 2013 • May 2013 • April 2013 • March 2013 • February 2013 • January 2013 • December 2012 • November 2012 • October 2012 • September 2012 • August 2012 • July 2012 • June 2012 • May 2012 • April 2012 • March 2012 • February 2012 • January 2012 • December 2011 • November 2011 • October 2011 • September 2011 • August 2011 • July 2011 • June 2011 • May 2011 • April 2011 • March 2011 • January 2011 • November 2010 • September 2010 • August 2010 • July 2010 • June 2010 • March 2010 • February 2010 • January 2010 • November 2009 • October 2009 • August 2009 • July 2009 • June 2009 • May 2009 • March 2009 • February 2009 • January 2009 • December 2008 • November 2008 • October 2008 • September 2008 • August 2008 • July 2008 • June 2008 • May 2008 • April 2008
Latest Entries
Loading...
|
Notes from the Field
The status of motherhood in the US- time for change!
All is not well with the status of motherhood in the United States. While we’ve become more empowered in our right to choose whether or not we want children and how we balance family life, we’ve not fully claimed our power in the way it all begins: birth.
Women have limited information and therefore limited choices, and outcomes are not good... We fall behind 49 other countries in our rate of maternal death, despite spending more per capita on maternity care than any other nation. A woman giving birth in the US today is more likely to die in childbirth than her mother was. These outcomes are unacceptable in this wealthy, progress proclaiming nation, yet they are also our invitations to improve not only maternity care in the US, but also the status of women everywhere. Join the transformation for Improving Maternity Services at Childbirth Connection. And urge your Congress member to co-sponsor the Maternal Health Accountability Act. And women...Now is the time to own your experience, to make conscious decisions around the birth of your child. As we do so, we also birth our own potentials to create a different world. A world where a woman giving birth is not losing her human rights, but is rather a woman claiming her amazing creative power!
Send This | Categories: Empowerment, Maternal Health, Women
|
