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Welcome to the “Birth Situation Room,” where we gather reports of birth practices around the world. Please take a moment to read the Global Midwifery Council’s Mission Statement. The goal for keeping this resource is to make positive change in birth around the world for motherbaby and society. If you have knowledge of how midwifery or birth are doing in any country or region of a country anywhere in the world please write a letter, report or article for Midwifery Today magazine and the Birth Situation Room.  Map of Earth by NASA’s Earth Observatory How to Use the Birth Situation Room• Select a country from the right with this GMC logo to view reports available from that country:  • You may also read about a topic listed below:
Highlighted ReportINDIA: “Location, location, location” doesn’t just apply to real estate—it can determine who lives or dies. Throughout the world, economic disparities strand millions of newborns without the medical care people in industrialized countries take for granted. Too often, it costs babies their lives. This is certainly the case in India, which has the greatest number of babies who die within the first month of life, accounting for more than one in every four newborn deaths in the world. This devastating situation is starting to change, thanks to the application of midwifery and doula techniques that keep babies at home in their mother’s arms, nursing within an hour of delivery. [Please read the rest of this report here.] |
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