Maternal Health

Posted by: Every Mother Counts Staff

June 19, 2013

Grave Concerns about the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

The House passed a bill on Tuesday (6/18) designed to eliminate and criminalize virtually all abortions occurring after 20 weeks gestation and duplicate laws already passed in about a dozen states across the country.

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Posted by: Every Mother Counts Staff

June 17, 2013

Childbirth Connection Releases Surveys on US Women's Childbirth Experiences

Childbirth Connection, a leading resource hub for all-things maternal health-related has recently released several surveys regarding US women’s childbirth experiences.

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Posted by: Jeanne Faulkner

June 6, 2013

Something to Talk About

There was a new conversation that swirled throughout the Women Deliver conference in Kuala Lumpur last week. We touched on it with our blogs from the conference and it has now made its’ way to the Gates Foundation Impatient Optimists blog and the Family Care International blog.

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Posted by: Julie Smolyansky

May 31, 2013

The Improve the Health of Women, We Must end Violence

Half way around the world at the 2013 Women Deliver conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, government leaders, NGO representatives, corporate leaders and other health-focused groups have come together to use their collective voice to call for action to improve the health and well-being of girls and women.

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Posted by: Every Mother Counts Staff

May 24, 2013

Saving Mothers, Giving Life: Update

Saving Mothers, Giving Life has come a long way in its first year on the ground in Zambia and Uganda and we couldn't be more proud.

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Posted by: Every Mother Counts Staff

May 24, 2013

Haiti Babi Blankets and the Baby Shower that Gives Back

Check out what our friends at Culture Baby are doing for Midwives for Haiti. Their Haiti Babi Blankets and Baby Shower that Gives Back packages are a great way to support the mothers we love in Haiti.

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Posted by: Every Mother Counts Staff

May 23, 2013

International Day to End Fistula

Today, May 23rd, marks the first International Day to End Fistula an effort coordinated by UNFPA’s Campaign to End Fistula to ramp up awareness of a debilitating childbirth injury.

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Posted by: Jeanne Faulkner

May 22, 2013

National Mental Health Month

Who do you turn to if you’re not feeling the joys of motherhood? If instead of feeling happy about being a parent, you’re anxious, angry, sad or feel nothing at all? You know it’s normal to be exhausted, overwhelmed and confused…that’s just par for the course; but for approximately 13% of pregnant and new mothers, so is post partum depression.

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