Amazing documentary tonight on BBC1 at 10.35pm - Four Born Every Second - a kind of global OBEM

[MmeLindor]

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I saw a preview today and it is both shocking and inspiring.

287,000 women die from pregnancy related causes every year, 99% of them in developing countries.

The film shows the difference between UK and US births and those in Cambodia and Sierra Leone.

It does contain quite distressing scenes of still birth, so maybe not for you if you are currently pregnant.

I blogged about it today (link on profile) to give you an idea what it is about and will be watching again tonight.

Oh bless him.

poor girl

heart breaking isn't it. We just don't as a global society care enough about women and children.

I would guess that a ruptured uterus would not end well in UK hospitals either though? Would they be able to save the baby?

I was thinking more of the country stats they were showing for maternal survival.

oh, yes. Sorry, was not referring to your post. Was musing about the woman who died, and if she'd have survived if she had lived in UK.

I agree that not enough is done for women and children.

If you weren't weeping already, then I bet that wee boy set you off.

That poor Cambodian boy - heartbreaking.

And what the jeff was the medicalised cervix water bomb they were offering Starr?!?

The don't do straw balloons up the fanjo here.

I wondered about that too, Olivia. I loved her bear-like roar though

I want to reach into my television and hug that doctor from Sierra Leone.

stunning stat coming up

I wondered on that - and if anyone had advised me to make out after several days labour - not sure I'd be impressed.

That is about £1.70 per person for the whole of Sierra Leone. Population around 6m.

Didn't they say at the beginning that there were only 200 doctors in the whole country though?

the tragedy of greed and corruption

Madness isn't it.

Yes, about 200 docs, and 87 midwives, iirc

Dr Phillip for Olivia

Amazing programme. That mother that died on the operating table was heartbreaking. Didn't expect it to be so graphic showing the baby that had already started to decompose

oh god that baby

that was harrowing

That beautiful baby girl - I am in tears now

Holding my own new born. I'm reminded of how thankful I should be. Hard viewing