Hell House

*Content warning: birth trauma, medical trauma, medical neglect, death, mature and stressful themes.  *Free + Confidential Resources + Safety Tips: somethingwaswrong.com/resources    *Sources: American College of Nurse Midwives https://midwife.org/  American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) https://www.acog.org/  CDC, Health E-Stats, Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2023 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2023/Estat-maternal-mortality.pdf CDC, Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2023 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2023/maternal-mortality-rates-2023 CDC, Working Together to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/features/maternal-mortality.html  Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice: https://blackmaternalhealth.tufts.edu/ Comparative Analysis of Therapeutic Showers and Bathtubs for Pain Management and Labor Outcomes—A Retrospective Cohort Study https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/ Fetal Heart Monitoring https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/fetal-heart-monitoring  Fundal Height https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/22294-fundal-height  Health Equity Among Black Women in the United States https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8020496/  Insights into the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis: An International Comparison https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/jun/insights-us-maternal-mortality-crisis-international-comparison  March of Dimes https://www.marchofdimes.org/peristats/about-us  Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC) https://www.meacschools.org/  Monitoring Baby’s Heart Rate During Labor https://familydoctor.org/monitoring-babys-heart-rate-labor/  Mucus Plug https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/21606-mucus-plug Nasal Cannula https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/25187-nasal-cannula  National Midwifery Institute