The rate of death in pregnancy and postpartum for U.S. women is on the rise while it's declining in the rest of the developed world. How can that be? Every day on average, two or three women die from pregnancy-related causes in America. How is it that a woman here is three times more likely to die due to pregnancy and childbirth complications than a woman in Canada. NPR and ProPublica shed light on this troubling trend. ProPublica's Nina Martin joins us this hour to discuss what she and NPR's Renee Montagne uncovered in "Lost Mothers: Maternal Mortality in the U.S." The reporting was a finalist in the Pulitzer Prize awarded this week and is nominated for a Peabody award. She'll be joined in our conversation by a local maternity doctor and a doula.
Lost Mothers series
Guests:
-Nina Martin, Reporter, ProPublica
-Dr. Uma Perni, MD, Maternal and Fetal Medicine Specialist, Cleveland Clinic Ob/Gyn & Women's Health Institute
-Marlene Morris, a Birth, and Postpartum Doula in the Cleveland area