06/01/2019
Postpartum care is an important part of the birth process that is too often forgotten by the medical community. This is reflected in the growing maternal mortality rate in the US, with our home state of Georgia ranking the worst.
Georgia is the most dangerous state in the United States to give birth. Our maternal mortality rate is 46 for every 100,000 births. That means that 1 in 2,173 birthing people die giving birth. It is safer to give birth in more than 90 other countries than it is to give birth in Georgia. This isn