For Drs. & nurses,specifically women's' health specialists:What would cause a woman to die after giving birth?

Alberto Kozub: How extreme is your hyperemesis? If cure is helping and you'll keep hydrated you will have to be high-quality. It is 2009, they may be able to supply you an IV to maintain you hydrated and feed you. Most instances of hyperemesis are simply high-quality. When they put up data of what number of females die giving delivery they rely all people. They rely the females who supply delivery within the woods and those who give within the again seat in their auto at the highway even as their husband is using to the sanatorium... they rely freebirthers who hemorrhage out earlier than they have got the threat to dial 911.. If you supply delivery in a sanatorium there shall be a complete crew of medical professionals round you if whatever is going fallacious... your probabilities of demise are very narrow. However, hyperemesis can end result your long run well being if its extreme so be certain you pass to your entire health care provider appointments and head to the ER! should you suppose dehydrated and cannot get any water down....Show more

Jose Bouliouris: I'm not a women's health care specialist but I do have some experience on this topic that might be helpful. I have 3 kids and with the last delivery I had a problem with the placenta rupturing during labor. The delivery was successful but afterward my blood pressure dropped so low that there was a zero reading for the bottom number. They had to give me clotting medication because my uterus wouldn't contract on its own and I wouldn't stop bleeding. I had to have several pints of blood and came very close to dying. This wasn't that long ago and medication was available to stop the blood loss. Years ago women that had my condition would've died during or right after delivery. My doctor also told me afterward that I could've had a stroke or blood clot to the heart, lungs or brain. It's a possibility that this is what happened to your grandfather's mother. High blood pressure is als! o a leading cause of maternal death. It seems like in that era! women dying during childbirth was just accepted as something that happened so maybe they never took the time to find the exact cause....Show more

Cassey Hollinghurst: The major causes of maternal death are bacterial infection, variants of gestational hypertension including pre-eclampsia and HELLP syndrome, obstetrical hemorrhage, ectopic pregnancy, puerperal sepsis, amniotic fluid embolism, and complications of abortions. Lesser known causes of maternal death include renal failure, cardiac failure, and hyperemesis gravidarum.As stated by the 2005 WHO report "Make Every mother and Child Count" they are: severe bleeding/hemorrhage (25%), infections (13%), unsafe abortions (13%), eclampsia (12%), obstructed labour (8%), other direct causes (8%), and indirect causes (20%). Indirect causes such as malaria, anaemia, HIV/AIDS and cardiovascular disease, complicate pregnancy or are aggravated by it....Show more

Monica Voltin: blood loss

Lia Argall: well my aunt c! ame close to dying after giving birth cause her uterus didnt harden back up so she kept on gushing blood. she went out of consiousnes but shes fine now!

Betsey Muehlbach: Serious disfunctions can be caused by birth complications. However the most serious health issues causing death are the ones that relate to blood loss. Here's my source: http://www.myhealth-forum.com/