Your Hospital Is Not Telling You Everything About Pregnancy Complications
Let’s be honest. Most of us only hear about maternal health when someone dies. But here is what nobody is talking about. For every woman who dies from a pregnancy complication, between 50 and 100 women survive something terrifying. A hemorrhage. An ICU admission. Sepsis. Uterine rupture. Cardiorespiratory arrest. That is called severe maternal morbidity. […]
A Common Pregnancy Blood Pressure Reading. A Risk Too Often Missed.
There is a number that sends women home from Labor and Delivery when they should be admitted or further evaluated. It looks reassuring. It feels fine. And it meets the clinical threshold for hypertension in pregnancy. That number is 90. A diastolic blood pressure of 90 mmHg, even with a perfect-looking systolic of 120, meets […]