Savanna Neikirk- Prenatal care among pregnant women (1)

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Neikirk 1 Savanna Neikirk Vesna Tanaskoski English 111 Section MAA 2 May 2023 Prenatal Care Among Pregnant Women Most women who are pregnant struggle with insurance costs and prenatal and postnatal care. The majority of pregnancies cannot be planned, but when proper prenatal care is available and used, all pregnancies can proceed with optimal outcomes. Women of color struggle more with this than others. Women of any race should be able to easily access available resources for assistance throughout pregnancy. Without reliable health insurance a small prenatal treatment can wipe a person out financially. The importance of prenatal care can result in both positive outcomes for both the mother and the baby during pregnancy. Prenatal care should be affordable and accessible to everyone. Having health insurance can be a good thing but it's not always a good thing. You would think that having good health insurance, your doctor visits and all of the tests they want you to do, would be covered as far as costs, but don't think that about everything that your doctor provides. While you are pregnant, you have a lot of doctor's appointments. At these appointments they may do different exams like ultrasounds, drug tests at every appointment, frequent heart rate checks on the unborn infant, and not to mention the major cost of all this is labor and delivery. All of these tests and

Neikirk 2 exams add up, and they expect someone to pay for them. Insurance companies will not always cover these costs, and if they don't, you are expected to pay. The “Maternal and Child Health Journal” came out with a program in 2002 called the “Unborn Child Ruling” and it resulted in the states children health insurance program and has expanded over states.The program covers prenatal care for low-income women without health insurance. Medicaid coverage is not available to latinas. In the article “The Impact of the State Children's Health Insurance Program for Unborn Child Ruling Expansions on Foreign Born Latina Prenatal Care” it compares Latina prenatal care utilization and birth outcomes between six states which expanded coverage in response to the ruling and ten states which did not. It explained that the policy analysis examines cross-sectional pooled United States natality data from the pre-enactment years (2000-2003) versus post enactment years (2004-2007) to estimate the effect of the ruling on prenatal care. ( Drewry, Jonathan, pg. 1464). The outcomes did not change. Pregnancies can be expensive especially for people who are another race because of how hard it can be to get the care they need. A woman's reproductive and sexual health needs and rights are largely dependent on access to quality, affordable healthcare. It is a recognized human right for women to receive prenatal care. In Brazil, they have offered the experience of women regarding what they have recognized as barriers that trample their right to health, that is limited personnel and medical equipment as a perception of neglect, timely delivery of services, misinformation as a barrier to the exercise of health rights, and socioeconomic barriers. ( Rodrigues, Camilia, pg. 14). The barriers affect women from rural

Neikirk 3 communities with lower classes and education, as well as women of color, who are already at higher health risks and receive inadequate prenatal care. Women's health should come first in pregnancy because if the mother is not doing well, then the fetus is not doing well. A woman's life is just as valuable as well as the fetus. Women need all of their strength and energy during pregnancy. Pregnancy sucks everything that is good into your unborn child. I also believe that women should have appropriate healthcare services at a low cost even with insurance. Expecting mothers have to work harder to provide a life and home for their unborn child. Mothers who are expecting have a lot of duties to fulfill as far as getting everything ready for when their child is actually born. They have to get their room ready and buy everything the child may need like cribs, clothes, bottles, blankets, and pacifiers. Being a mother is a never ending process. In the United States we have the highest maternal- mortality rate among the nations. Pregnancy related deaths with American women have risen substantially over the past thirty years. “Between 2000 and 2017, UNICEF reported that the US averaged roughly nineteen maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.” ( Floyd, Jessica, pg. 20). According to the CDC’s “Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System” , the maternal mortality rate rose one hundred and forty percent between 1987 and 2018 from 7.2 to 17.3. The system reported that in 2020, the maternal mortality in the United States has climbed to 23.8 deaths. All of this may be because infants have many problems when they are delivered because doctors are not doing enough testing while the fetus is still in the womb. The birth of a child brings so much happiness for families. Yet, over 100,000 newborns die each year due to prematurity, diseases and other neonatal complications. The newborn survival rate is even lower in other countries from lack of quality health

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