Why do women die from child-birth ?

Answer 1

plenty of reasons but usually uncontrolable blood loss.

Answer 2

child birth may be the most common daily occurance in the world, but there are deadly complications.

actually, many things can and do go wrong. Especially if the medical team are not paying close enough attention to the mother due to the newborns birth and all that is going on at the time..

Answer 3

first if you are pregnant not a good question to ask. An already anxious time could become a bad experience. Death in childbirth considering the amount of births per year is very rare. Reasons can be pre-eclampsia, blood lose, undetected heart conditions and brain heomarrhages among others.

Answer 4

some women die with birthing a child because they can burst a brain vessel from using so much force when trying to push out the baby.

Answer 5

Some of the possible complications are:

Heavy bleeding during or after childbirth, which is the most common cause of mortality in new mothers, in both developed and undeveloped nations.[3] Heavy blood loss leads to hypovolemic shock, insufficient perfusion of vital organs and death if not rapidly treated by stemming the blood loss (medically with ergometrine and pitocin or surgically) and blood transfusion. Hypopituitarism after obstetric hypovolemic shock is termed Sheehan's syndrome.
Non-progression of labour (longterm contractions without adequate cervical dilation) is generally treated with intravenous synthetic oxytocin preparations. If this is ineffective, Caesarean section may be necessary. Changes in maternal position is effective in many cases.
Fetal distress is the development of signs of distress by the child. These may include rising or decreasing heartbeat (monitored on cardiotocography/CTG), shedding of meconium in the amniotic fluid, and other signs.
Non-progression of expulsion (the head or presenting parts are not delivered despite adequate contractions): this can require interventions such as vacuum extraction, forceps extraction or Caesarean section.
In the past, a large proportion of women died from infection puerperal fever, but since the introduction of basic hygiene during parturition by Ignaz Semmelweis, this number has fallen precipitously.
Lacerations can be painful. An episiotomy is occasionally necessary to avoid tears involving the anal sphincter, but its routine use—once normal—has now been shown to be harmful.

Answer 6

Prenatal diabetes, postpartum hemorrhage, preeclampsia (high blood pressure), placenta previa (the placenta detaches from the uterus before childbirth), lack of proper prenatal care, cerebral or aortic aneurysm (a blood vessel bursts or tears in the brain or abdominal cavity).

These are the primary reasons, but there are reasons that even doctors don't understand - sometimes a person's time comes a the most inopportune time, sadly.

Answer 7

My mother had a disease when she was pregnant with me (sorry, I can't spell it...very long word) and almost died during labor. The disease caused her to gain 150 pounds while pregnant and the doctors told her that if she ever had another child that she would only have a 50/50 chance of living. This also caused the baby (me) to be anemic.

Answer 8

Hemmoraging, infection, undiagnosed heart conditions are a few reasons. Death can also result from untreated/recognized pre/eclampsia/placenta previa(because of the hemmoraging) and a few other severe pregnancy related conditions.

Answer 9

Normally blood loss. Occasionally the culprit is later infection.

Answer 10

Placenta Abrupta. Your placenta "explodes" after you give birth and you bleed out. Used to be called childbed fever.

Answer 11

Excruitating pain and blood loss. Us men will never know what women go through. And they will never know what if feels like to get hit in the balls.