Geeky Gal Birth Advocate

07/17/2025

This would be good news if Medicare covered more home and birth centers births to allow for better patient autonomy but that is not the case. As hospitals close their maternity units or even close down altogether, we leave growing families at risk to lacking access to prenatal, labor, delivery, and postpartum care. The maternity care deserts grow and our county wonders why maternal mortality and morbidity rates are on the rise.

🚨 Over the past decade, a significant number of hospitals across the United States have shuttered their obstetric services.

This decline in hospital-based obstetric care is revealed in a new study in Health Affairs, which shares that rural communities have been the hardest hit, with large portions of this population losing access to labor and delivery care.

This trend will likely continue–or worsen–following the federal government’s recent cuts to Medicaid. Access to care is a primary determinant of outcomes and is key to ensuring maternal health and survival.

Learn more: https://www.ajmc.com/view/decline-in-hospital-based-obstetric-services-seen-across-us-states

07/17/2025

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On Tuesday, Superior HealthPlan announced over $700,000 in funding for Community Hygiene Closets throughout Texas, offering free toiletries to those in need.

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07/16/2025

07/16/2025

Hmmm, such a paradigm shift for many people. Home and community birth was the norm for many millenia before hospital birth became the Western standard in the 1900s.

Hear me out before you eye-roll… this is from the Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2023 paper comparing homebirth to hospital birth.

In the article they explain that homebirth is not the ‘intervention’ that needs researching, in fact the move into hospital birth for all women is the experimental intervention that requires review.

Archie Cochrane awarded ‘the wooden spoon’ to obstetrics in 1989 because ‘the speciality missed its first opportunity in the sixties, when it failed to randomise the confinement of low-risk women at home or hospital… then having filled the emptying beds by getting nearly all pregnant women into hospital, the obstetrician started to introduce a whole series of expensive innovations without any rigorous evaluation’

Don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger, it’s not my fault that hospital birth became the norm without rigorous evaluation…

I’ll discuss this more on ep.160 of podcast ‘Is homebirth a good option for you’

07/12/2025

What to expect in the first few days of breastfeeding.

07/11/2025

The more you know...

Children born by planned C-section have an increased risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) later in life. This is shown by a study conducted by researchers at Karolinska Institutet. The researchers emphasize that the risk remains low. Read more here: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089383

07/10/2025

07/08/2025

You are not alone. You don't have to deal with hard things all by yourself. 💕

07/08/2025

Say no to WIC cuts! Families need healthy foods to grow and be healthy.

🚨 The proposed cuts would take monthly allowances for fresh fruits and veggies from $26 to $10 for WIC kids! Tell you reps: NO CUTS to fruit and vegetable benefits! ✏️ bit.ly/nocuts26

07/08/2025

The maternity deserts will grow larger and access will be even more limited to lower income and black or brown communities.

07/08/2025

07/07/2025

🗣 Providers need to LISTEN TO WOMEN. They are the experts on their own bodies.

“We are losing lives,” said the lead researcher of a new health care report. “At what point are we going to stand up and say enough is enough?”