' first-time mom joined the ranks of thousands of Texas women who die within a year of giving birth'

[riversedge]

This just should not be happening in 2017.


The vibrant 35-year-old, first-time mother joined the ranks of thousands of Texas women who die within a year of giving birth.



http://kron4.com/2017/08/05/video-first-time-mom-dies-days-after-giving-birth/

VIDEO: First-time mom dies days after giving birth
KXAN Published: August 5, 2017, 12:02 pm Updated: August 5, 2017, 12:26 pm




AUSTIN (KXAN) — For nine months, Michelle and Chris Zavala could not wait to take portraits with their newborn baby girl, Clara. The baby was born two weeks early and the pregnancy wasn’t an easy one.

“She was considered a high-risk pregnancy,” said Chris, Michelle’s husband. “And, at 35 apparently they consider you a geriatric pregnancy,”

Michelle developed gestational diabetes which she controlled with a healthy diet. Chris says his wife’s labor on July 18 was a textbook case.

“I went to lunch with my parents down in the cafeteria in the hospital; and, we’re sitting there for about 10 to 15 minutes and I get a text from her saying, ‘I’m fully dilated,’” said Chris. “It was a beautiful moment.”
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But the next week, Michelle complained of shortness of breath. She phoned her husband asking him to get home as soon as he could. Chris says he was immediately alarmed.

“I heard something in her voice,” he said. “My wife isn’t easily rattled.”

..................................................The vibrant 35-year-old, first-time mother joined the ranks of thousands of Texas women who die within a year of giving birth.

[Lifelong Protester]

1. That is so sad.

[ck4829]

2. I know Laila Alawa to a small degree, she's apparently "oppressed" because she wears a hijab

Meanwhile, women are dying in childbirth in Texas at the highest rate in the US... and the highest in the developed world barring Mexico, yet it's supposed to be the state you're not supposed to mess with.

[Laffy Kat]

3. Tragic and heartbreaking.

Please people, go directly to an ER with suspected cardiac or breathing problems. Urgent care centers can delay life-saving treatments. Totally not blaming victim or husband and she may not have survived even at an ER, but if you think it's serious get to a hospital!

[Maraya1969]

4. I know poverty is a factor in deaths at a young age but this seems

way too much. I wonder what they are doing to these women, or not doing.

And it says that 30% of the victims are black. Why?