Dana Perino Quotes

Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

How may child bearing women be most encouraged and supported in the time of childbearing?

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.

In some countries, as many as 91 percent of women have no one at their side to assist them during labor and delivery.

Women are more likely to have a ruptured uterus if they've had multiple C-sections because there's more scar tissue.

Becoming pregnant can be difficult at the best of times.

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I assisted her. I helped women give birth to a lot of babies when I was very young.

All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives.

If we want to help pregnant women, let's make sure that each pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.

Give special attention to the mothers' health, to see that women who are suffering from tuberculosis, heart or kidney disease, toxic goitre, gonorrhea, or any disease where the condition of pregnancy disturbs their health are placed under public health nurses to instruct them in practical, scientific methods of contraception in order to safeguard their lives---thus reducing maternal mortality

I could foresee some terrific political and legal battles if women find out they have Zika in the later terms of their pregnancy.