Why Is Maternal Mortality In America SO High If Modern Medicine Is SO Great?

"Western Medicine Is The Best!"

For a country that claims to lead the world in science, technology, and innovation, the US has one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates among developed nations.

The Commonwealth Fund reported that 80% of these deaths were preventable.

North America and "Small island developing states" were the only regions which experienced increase in maternal mortality.

The maternal mortality rate here is more than double any high-income countries. 1 out of every 167 babies born in American hospitals will die.

Approximately 24 women per 100,000 births die in the U.S., compared to 3 per 100,000 in countries like Norway or Finland. The rate is even worse for Black women, who are more than 3x more likely to die during childbirth.

And it's not like this is a new problem... maternal mortality in America has been rising since 1993.

Modern medicine in America has turned childbirth into a problem to be managed and artificially induced, muted and controlled, rather than a natural process to be supported. 

Why Are So Many Moms Dying Of Postpartum Hemorrhage?

As of 2021, 1 out of every 250 moms who deliver in America will experience hemorrhaging that requires a blood infusion following birth.

That's a 420% increase in postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) occurrence since 1993.

So what's driving this year over year increase in maternal mortality and PPH in America?

Early labor induction and the overuse of labor-inducing drugs like Pitocin can lead to excessively strong contractions, fetal distress, and increased risks for both mother and baby. Not to mention the extreme risks of inducing labor artificially (which we'll cover below).

The Problem With A Painless / Scheduled Labor

Over 70% of American women receive epidurals during labor.

Epidurals totally disconnect the mother from the ability to feel the contractions - meaning she loses the ability to push in sync with every cell in her body. This prolongs labor and puts great stress on the baby and results in extremely high emergency c-sections rates.

1/3 of all births in the U.S. C-sections (a rate far higher than recommended by the World Health Organization).

The majority of c-sections are elective and most of the time they are pushed by the doctor for convenience or fear of litigation, exposing mothers to higher risks of infection, blood clots, future pregnancy complications, longer recovery times and reduced mother-child bonding.

C-sections also result in serious risks and disadvantages to the baby. The passage through the birth canal is hard on the baby, yes, but it's also key to baby's health.

The birth canal exposes baby to billions of microbes like lactobacillus, which will help aid with digestion and strengthen baby's immune system from infection and irritation. It also functions to squeeze the babies chest, expelling all the liquid from the lungs and readying them to take their first breath.

During the delivery process both mom and baby are going through extreme pain - but this discomfort is not senseless, it serves to activate and engage every cell in both mom and baby's body simultaneously. This shared trauma followed by the extreme peace and overwhelming joy is what builds the basis for their first hours together being a key bonding experiencing.

What Does The Literature Say About The Risks Of Induced Labor?

Though you will find plenty of articles that claim induced labor is beneficial, but once you dig into how they got that conclusion you will see they just manipulated their sample size, included a number of bizarre co-founding factors to shape their narrative or used extremely specific language, like this study below.

Now the conclusion of this study claims that they did not find a SIGNIFICANT (this word is always a huge red flag) increase in the risk of experiencing PPH.

But let's look at what the data tells us: 7 out of 10 women who got a high dose (≥11 mU) had hemorrhaging, as opposed to only 3 out of 10 who received lower doses.

That’s a more than double risk of hemorrhage with high-dose Pitocin - which, if you ask any mom, would be significant enough to concluded that the more Pitocin a woman is exposed to (especially at higher maximum doses), the more likely she is to experience PPH.

But publications made by DOCTORS who are DELIVERING babies (not scientists in labs funded by pharmaceutical or government interests) are of the greatest value to moms and individuals who want to understand the reality beyond the paid-for-data.

For every institutionally funded publication claiming there's no danger from Pitocin use (some will even claim there is a benefit!), you will find hundreds more case studies published by real doctors sharing first hand accounts of the delivery room, all which repeatedly show Pitocin is associated with PPH.

What's most concerning is that this isn't new information, and it wasn't always up for debate either. There are dozens of publications from the 1950s explaining the direct correlation between inducing labor and harming maternal uterine health. From 1950 to 1980, there was no doubt that inducing labor resulted in extremely high risk deliveries.

But this 'science' did not align with the agenda, so it was eventually discredited and dismissed as 'baseless' (despite being supported by decades of published data), and was replaced with new 'evidence' which showed that there was no real associated risk of prematurely inducing labor and completely disregarding the process and order of Mother Nature.

So, Why Do Doctor's Continue To PUSH Moms Into Induced Labor?

Why on earth would any doctor try to convince a mom that there was a better, safer way to give birth than the way that Mother Nature intended?

This man had the balls to tell this woman that her butt would fall off and her sex life would never be the same if she didn't get a c-section. What the f*** kind of medical advice is that?

Who cares if you might bleed out and die, and your labor might be prolonged and result in extreme stress on your baby - the real problem is that sex just won't be the same.

But this man is not an oddity, he is the norm.

How helpful is it tell mom that there is a less painful, more convenient and option if that option is not actually assured to increase her safety?

Why are doctors countries pushing moms into scheduling induced labor WEEKS before their due date, claiming that it's what's safest for mom and baby - despite having no real reason to disrupt the natural birth process?

It's as if all doctors have taken it upon themselves to convince women that child birth without extreme medical intervention is too dangerous, but medically induced, forced child birth is FAR safer.

This ass backwards approach to biology, the stance that biology is weak and broken but man knows how to fix it, is an offense to 100,000+ years of evolution.

How Does The Placenta Naturally Separate From The Uterus During Labor?

Consider the fact that the placenta is located towards the top of the womb and is attached to the uterine wall via blood vessels - is it directly plugged into mom's blood supply.

At full term, there's about 20 oz of blood pumping through the placenta every minute. This translates to over one gallon of blood every hour and about 26.4 gallons of blood per day.

Now just as mom is delivering nutrients to baby, baby is releasing hormones to mom. Believe it or not, labor is not triggered by mom's body.

When the baby is ready to get out of there, their hypothalamus sends signals to their pituitary to release a wave of ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone).

The ACTH tells the baby’s adrenal glands to produce and release a ton of cortisol. This cortisol prepares the baby's lungs and speeds up its metabolism so that its heart is ready for delivery.

The umbilical cord doesn't just delivery nutrients to the baby, it also delivers hormone messages to the placenta to be communicated to mom.

The cortisol from baby flushes through the cord and into the placenta, and it triggers the conversion of mom's progesterone into estrogen. This estrogen stimulates prostaglandins and increases oxytocin (clotting factors)  in the uterus - which kicks off the start of muscle contractions.

But these first contractions aren't the same as the ones mom will experience later while pushing. These are shorter, tighter pulses designed to seal and close blood vessels between the uterus and the placenta. These contractions compress the spiral arteries that supplied the placenta, essentially shutting off the blood supply being pumped into it.

As labor progresses, the contractions result in the shrinking of the surface area of the uterus, which again acts to clamp blood vessels and also begins separating the placenta from the uterine wall. The production of prostaglandins and oxytocin stimulate fibrin, so tiny clots form where the placenta was attached to the uterus.

This allows for a clean, natural separation, because the muscle is clamping down at the same time that the placenta is releasing, and the blood vessels are immediately being congested so that there is as little blood loss as possible.

How Does Induced Labor Effect This Process?

But when moms are given synthetic oxytocin, AKA Pitocin, the contractions produces are sharp and unnatural with no coordination occurring between muscles and no rhythm occurring between contractions. So muscles don't have the ability to relax, restore and then contract all together at once in a coordinated effort. Instead all the muscles are contracting randomly, working extremely hard, burning massive amounts of energy, and making zero progress.

Not only does this lead to extreme exhaustion for mom, it also results in the placenta not becoming "clamped off" from blood supply - so the faucet is still turned on when the placenta is ultimately pulled away from the uterus.

THIS is what results in hemorrhaging. Hemorrhaging occurs because we are ignoring every step in the process that allows it to separate naturally, and instead just ripping the placenta away from the uterus so that the birth can be scheduled for convenience and "safety",

IT IS INSANE that one would think inducing birth would be anything but life threatening for mom and baby.

Labor occurs when the baby is ready for it to occur, and placenta detaches because baby triggers perfectly timed hormone + muscle + blood vessel coordination. When we "induce" labor unnaturally, we completely by pass all of mother nature's genius steps and check points. Medicine basically says, your body formed this baby in its womb and carried it for 9th months - but its inadequate to get the rest of the job done without our help.

Why Does Modern Medicine Think It's Its Job To Make Labor Pain Free And Easy?

We've been continuously sold the idea that birth is too hard and medicine can make it easier AND safer. But this is a lie - the two are at complete odds with each other. Either birth is hard, or it is unsafe.

Either the mom is working in complete orchestrated coordination with every muscle in her body, or she is numb to rhythms of labor, meaning her life and her babies life are the hands of her medical team.

There are thousands of horror stories from women who were absolutely traumatized and medical abused while giving birth in America.

What Effect Do These Traumatic or Manipulated Births Have On Moms and Their Babies?

Post-partum rates in America are higher than they've ever been. If you visit r/beyondthebump, r/pregnant or r/newparents and search 'no connection' or 'not connected', the results are terrifying.

More mom's than ever are reporting that they feel no connecting to their baby, lack empathy for them, and a significant amount event feel overwhelming irritation towards their fussy newborns, rather than compassion and adoration.

Consider for a minute the significance of child birth in terms of energy and pain. Moms are brought to a pain so extreme, they feel that they are on the brink of death.

This pain that grabs the attention of every cell in mom's body, engaging them and directing their full focus on this pain. This overwhelming full-body experience creates cellular coherence. The relief felt after childbirth is not just the result of less physical pain, it's because the extreme pain and trauma actually cleansed the body. By feeling that pain, by being brought to that brink - the body was forced to release everything it has been holding onto unnecessarily. It had to give everything it had to survive the pain.

The extreme experience also impresses the preciousness and miracle of life upon mom. This process imprints onto the mother's mind what she's capable of enduring to keep this child alive.

It's Not Just The Mom's Lives That Are At Risk

America isn't just unsafe for mom's giving birth - it's unsafe for their babies too. The U.S. ranks 33rd in infant mortality among OECD countries, with approximately 5.7 deaths per 1,000 live births.

Infant mortality rates in America are higher than in Cuba, Slovenia, and most of Europe.

And preterm births, or most of which are made up by induced labor, are a leading cause of infant mortality in America, accounting for nearly one-third of all infant deaths.

Visualizing And Understanding The Placenta From Both Sides

These pictures are pretty graphic, but I feel they are SO important to show that (A) the body is miraculously equipped for childbirth without any instruction from man or medicine, and (B) visualizing the placenta and understanding it function will make it crystal clear just how harmful it is to mom for this thing to be ripped out when it is not ready or separated from mom's blood flow.

This is what baby sees when it's in the womb and looks upward. The placenta is attached to the top of the uterus. You see the massive and complex vascular structure which is filtered through the placenta and ultimately pumped into 3 vessels contained inside the umbilical cord.

You can clearly see that there is a very thick membrane which separates all the fluids and vessels between mom's side and baby's side - this ensures that the placenta is able to filter all the fluid entering and exiting the womb to an extreme level. There is only one way in, two ways out (one large vein carrying oxygen rich blood to baby, two smaller veins carrying fluid out).

There is some genius engineering behind the structure of the umbilical cord to be appreciated. The cord's helical twist is usually 11–40 spirals. This makes the cord extremely flexible, strong and stretchable and allows it to maintain blood flow under pressure and tension.

Inside of the cord there is a gelatinous, mucousy substance that surrounds the vessels inside, called Wharton’s Jelly. This 'jelly' ensures that no matter how knotted the cord becomes, there's no interruption to the flow of nutrients and oxygen.

Now on the left here shows the membrane which comes up from the placenta and surrounds the baby, keeping it contained in pure fluid, ensuring that this membrane barrier does not allow any toxins, virus or bacteria in.

In the middle we see this flipped upside down. And now, on the right, you are finally seeing the side which is attached to the uterine wall.

This is vital for all mom's to see before they give birth. The placenta is not just some remote unit which is easily removed from the body upon delivery. If delivery is not initially naturally, this entire surface is ripped away from a wall which has been restructured specifically to ensure efficient blood pumping. from uterine wall to placenta.

Now imagine you skip mother nature's process and instead choose to rip the placenta from your uterus, leaving an open, gushing wound the size of two palms.

The image on the right is the photos of what that looks like - PPH.

The Truth Behind The Medicalization Of Birth In America

The increasing maternal mortality and birth complications in America are not a mystery, they are happening by design.

IN 1989, The Rockefeller Commission presented their goals and recommendations. This was the first thing on the list:

Stabilize U.S. population as early as possible in the next century as part of similar worldwide efforts, by providing universal access to a broad range of information, services, and opportunities so that individuals may plan responsibly and voluntarily the number and spacing of their children.

These include: high-quality family planning and other basic and reproductive health services; equitable educational, economic, social, and political opportunities, particularly for women; reduction of infant mortality; and the increase of male responsibility for family planning and childrearing. 

In other words, the population of undesirables in America can grow no more - for the advantage of the whole, we must 'stabilize' the population.

Another great excerpt from the report:

There is a habit of thinking in some segments of the business community that population increase is something essential to the maintenance of vigorous demand and economic growth, just as there is an instinctive reaction against any new cost factors being added to the processes of production and distribution.

But our economy has already, and in many ways, shown its tremendous adaptability to new social demands and necessities. I have not the slightest doubt that it can meet this new challenge.

The Commission report goes on to state, "In short, we find no convincing economic argument for continued national population growth."

Read all about the history of eugenics, population control, family planning and medicalization of health: