Giving birth Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“Every year over half a million women (99% of them from the poor world) die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Of babies born alive and in hospitals during that month of July 1945, 92 percent would die within then days.”

— Andrei Cherny

“between 1915 and 1930, US maternal mortality did not decline and deaths of babies from birth injuries actually increased. Hospitals advertised widely, urging mothers…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“By 1867, there were only fifty Dakota left in Minnesota.67 That year, a baby girl was born just across the Mississippi, in a little…

— Caroline Fraser

“Men die in battle; women die in childbirth.”

— Philippa Gregory

“In the 1940s women were changing from home to hospital where they gave birth alone and thus birth became a mystery to the next…

— Robert A. Bradley

In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.

— Peter Diamandis

“In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty.5 Yet the increase in births still outpaced the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.”

— Susan B. Anthony

“The World Health Organization estimates that 536,000 women perished in pregnancy or childbirth in 2005, a toll that has barely budged in thirty years.…

— Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

“In 1800 the United States had a birth rate higher than any ever recorded for a European country, but it fell steeply and consistently…

— Richard White