When I qualify the rest of the way as a midwife here in the US and manage to be able to bill insurance for my privileged self and my clientele, I am committing to sending these hospitals without resources money, supplies, medications, and proper equipment. Just basic equipment like an autoclave, soap, meds, etc can help them so much. Midwives in the US make enough money to be just fine with. I am willing to share as much as I can with other midwives around the world in the hopes of helping women and babies everywhere. If more people cared about moms and babies, this wouldn’t be happening. There is no excuse in this day and age.
Being a mother of 3,grandmother of 2..It is so heartbreaking seeing what these poor women have to endure during a time that is supposed to be sacred and beautiful...When my children and grandchildren were born we had good private insurance and we got the 5 star treatment, my Dr. even sent me flowers and a fruit basket!! Yet these poor women can't even get the bare minimum of basics! Not even clean water to drink!! Something has hot to be done for these women,😢 it has to get better for them ,because it certainly couldn't be much worse!!! Im praying for you ladies...God bless you
@TheArtistsHeart Studio..so very well said..t.y. ..what can we do? Spread the word in every which way we can..hoping others will do the same..I love 3Adult daughters and 6grandchildren..all Blessed in birthing process..am wishing the same for ALL women and their 👼 s..moi, Canada 🇨🇦
I wish to donate for saving those precious lives of mothers. .... So terrible heart wrenching 😢😢😢.motherhood is blessing it should not cause harm to lives, God bless me to improve me this scenario.
My father is from Sierra Leone..his mother died shortly after he was born..this just hit me like a ton of bricks...I v e nvr bn to Sierra Leone..time to make the journey...proper health care is a human right ..God's peace and blessings to the Shyllon Family and everyone in Freetown.
Prayers for this country 🙏🙏🙏🙏There government is at fault. They should help these people like out government does. It's just so sad so sad. I pray to God above to improve this situation 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
God!... If I were rich I would go there regularly and provide them with everything they need to treat the women at local clinics (medical equipment, drugs, etc.!) and to train midwives that could travel in secluded areas!... I would arrive there with TRUCK LOADS of medical necessities to save these women and their babies!... Heck! I would buy these midwives cars!... Even in 2009, this was not acceptable for women to die while giving birth!...
This is so sad that so many women are dying giving birth and its shameful for people who can do sth but not doing in reality. god Bless them who to who cares about them and help them...May more help goes to them
This is terrible I feel so bad for all these woman...😓💔 I live in Canada and I get full coverage for being pregnant I even got a doula through support programs I am in. I hope one day countries like this are able to flourish with amazing health care and funding 🙏🏻😓💕
I am in utterly pain for these women..the most basic of women's privileges, honor, pride ..dying for giving birth ..I want to help..what to do on a large scale..please, please tell me..moi, 😖 Canada 🇨🇦
Instead of buying guns for war, we should spend money to help women in Sierra Leone. I was born c section in Zimbabwe and am healthy. Why cant other kids be born healthy, and other mothers give birth safely?
Misty Wind I'm an American woman.. I just had a baby and my pregnancy and birth was very dangerous so this video touches my heart. how can we help them? maybe a website to donate money? I don't know but we need to help our sisters in poor countries!!
This problem is very easy focus the government in medical problem women should take pills or use condom to control populations.Educate men and woman’s about safe sex to avoid pregnancy.This country need a strong leader not a corrupt one.I think all system of Africa are almost same.God bless Sierra Leon.
She's trying to sooth the baby. Its obviously hungry and in need of comfort. And if the grandmother does have milk likely not a lot of it. :( my baby nurses for comfort all the time. She never took a pacifier/dummy so she just nurses or sucks her thumb for comfort.
I don't get it… Women in these countries don't work outside the home and their field… They stay at home to have children and to raise them so of course they don't have the money!... My question is WHERE are the husbands that are supposed to be the providers?!... WHERE are the in laws that married these women to their sons so she can produce grandsons?!… How can you look the women, the young girls' parents in the eyes and tell them "your daughter died because we would not pay for normal, basic maternity care, we crossed our fingers and hoped for the best"?!... At 10:46, the forgot or intentionally left out, the fact that some are not even "women" but young girls, teenagers whose body is not ready to carry out a pregnancy and a delivery... At 13:36, FINALLY some commun sense!... A community mutuel help fund to help women get maternity care!... If everybody in the community provides just a few pennies it can go a long way and save lives!...
you know what? i'm medical student, studying general medicine.. all of medical student in my university during their internship, WE DOING NOT JUST SOME VOLUNTEER WORK....we are must do volunteer work in all division (about almost 2 years) ..
more people from privileged background should watch this video. young kids too so they know how lucky they are to be born in civilized nations. I am from Malaysia and when i saw this video i thank god that my country while not great could at least provide her citizen with basic health care.
That is so sad..why can't Drs without borders work there... And what about UNICEF helping out.. I think these people need to be sponsored by someone.. rest in peace mothers and children
Why o why is this allowed to take place there government should definitely do more to help these women it doesn't just effect the husbands but all the family even the new born who survived
That circumsision on women is evil. They should castrate a few men and see how they like it....if it's good for the goose it's good for the gander. Why did that woman twist that babies head after nursing it. You could see that it caused the child pain. Some people should not be parents at all.
What are the exact medical causes of the women dying in childbirth? All I can gather is it's because they're poor. What's going on here? Why are they having severe hemorrhaging after childbirth? Is the placenta allowed to be delivered on it's own? Are they massaging the fundus to help it contract, especially after multiple births?
the British people have to do alot more to help the people in their Commonwealth countries. they have to build big modern hospital and provide transportation for women to get to these hospital. teach them about birth control. in the states they give shots that are birth control. instead of pills. they last longer. when they are nice pregnant they need to go to modern hospitals. I like the royal family but I think they can do alot more. and also they need free public schools for every child up to age 16. maybe Megan and Harry can bring these people into the 21st century.🙏💙
WOW OBVIOUSLY THE "1ST LADY" DOESN'T GO WITHOUT FOOD, SIT'S IN HER CHAIR WEARING SOME PRETTY NICE GOLD EARINGS, NECKLACE & BRACELET, IS SHE TAKING $$ OUT OF HER POCKET TO HELP SAVE THE LIVES OF MOTHER & BABY??? SORRY BUT...THIS REALLY BOTHERS ME
Thos makes me ashamed of all the complaints ive made for negligence. . To see thos and that the chances of survival isnt the greatest for other mum or baby . Im so lucky im so selfish . Complaining about low income when they get dollor a day ahhh . Forgive me lord
see.. a REAL FEMINIST would care LESS about the made up "toxic masculinity" issue, the bogus metoo movement, and put more ENERGY into issues like this one. I'm an American and I say we need to STAND UP AND HELP OUR SISTERS in these poor countries. They are dying while doing the most miraculous amazing thing.. bringing LIFE into the world.. how tragic. this is not just inafrica, but in many countries across the world. they should not be dying at childbirth for conditions that are easily treated had they been blessed to be living in USA. how can we help them?
Just don't have sex. that will fix so many of your problems. Relax, what I want to say is that these people should have safe sex and create a safe environment for everyone first in their community by creating new facilities and then reproduce. That will surely lower a lot of psychological and physiological pain these communities are going through. Also, let's stop treating these people like third world and start allowing them to make better decision for themselves. Give them the tools and let them learn what is good for them.
dancerlove30 Okay maybe vitro fertilisation can be of a help here but as we know not everyone can afford such a service. Moreover, In the present, Earth is already over populated so at this point we need to lower our fertility rate in the developing country considerably before we have major food and water crises. Look I will stop being a jerk now but the obvious answer here is that people in these particular and similar situation where they do not have adequate access to health services need to be educated and have knowledge on how to have safe sex. To put it simply, use a condom, take a birth control pill or just use a different type of contraception. However, due to social and religious norms some people voluntarily won't have safe sex or just won't have access to contraception because the place where live at is highly isolated. So, in order to save lives just stop having sex till you have 1) adequate protection (Medication, health services or in a safe environment 2) reliable contraception 3) the want to have children 4) a safe place in life 5) a comprehensive understanding about WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO YOURSELF, LIFE THAT YOU WILL BE BRINGING IN THE WORLD AND YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER. Think of me what you like but if having sex was going to put the lives at grave risk cause of the health services around me where understaffed, under equipped and largely under funded then I am not doing it.
***** 1) When the fuck did I insist, imply or say that a women should sell her body so she could food on the table. How disturbed are you?. STOP YOUR FEMINAZISM and stop imposing your opinions on others cause you feel validated somehow within yourself. That is plain stupid. To me no women should ever have to sell her body to feed herself or her family. She should be an educated individual and have some dignity and respect. If she is poor then at least she should have the courage to live her life the way she can even with the limited resources she has. 2) I said do not have sex because if having sex in an area where hospital was miles away from where you live, under funded, understaffed or overpopulated by sick people cause they weren't receiving adequate medical attention then I rather wanna do something about that problem first and later on have children. Hence, I meant improve your living conditions first and then decide to have sex or children. 3) You asked "So you want to take the joy of motherhood away from these women?" No. There are many ways women can feel the joys of motherhood by actually adopting a child. Yes, people can adopt now and yes women do that cause some of them actually can't have children (unfortunately). Giving a birth is not the only way a women can achieve the status of a mother she can also adopt and look after her child and she would still be considered a mother. 4) You said "Can't you see how poor they are?" Yes, I do have a conciousness and eyes that allows me to understand how horrible there living condition is. Unfortunately our world is not a utopia. These women and the rest of the society is living in some of the most worst living condition women and the rest of the human society has to live in. I feel rumours and great deal of sorrow for them. I hope there government can find a way to fix this situation as soon as possible cause this extremely horrible situation.
These women know the risks they are facing when they get pregnant,why keep getting pregnant knowing the horrible situation they will be in and the circumstances they are in? Why not wait till things improve and they are in a better situation to bring a helpless baby into the world ? Contraception should be considered for these women till funding is available,the women know they could lose their lives giving birth yet still continue to have intercourse and get pregnant knowing this,and they know their child will be born into poverty and illness,it dosent make sense,I'm sure contraception could be funded until things get better and funding is available for health care etc so women don't lose their lives during pregnancy and during or after giving birth
I think your idea is great but the problem is funding. War is expensive, and contraceptives such as an IUD can cost even a woman in the U.S. up to $500 and that bec of a labor involved. You need qualified nurses and OBGYNs to insert the IUD and that is what costs a lot of money. So now the price becomes even higher. BC pills month to month is a monthly payment most people can’t afford. In this video they said healthcare for pregnancy is « supposed » to be free but it’s not bec surprise surprise healthcare is not free. Even if the government is paying for it they still use your taxes for funding so it is not free in the slightest.
they shld get free supplies of better modern technology sent to their country...or to any 3rd world countries!they may be poor,but they are humans as well..and they to need to start their generation tree!
Actually, although FGM can lead to childbirth complications, uncircumcised women also have trouble giving birth. It has more to do with the shape of the pelvis. African women typically have a square, male shaped pelvis, and that reduces the opening. It's complicated.
When I qualify the rest of the way as a midwife here in the US and manage to be able to bill insurance for my privileged self and my clientele, I am committing to sending these hospitals without resources money, supplies, medications, and proper equipment. Just basic equipment like an autoclave, soap, meds, etc can help them so much. Midwives in the US make enough money to be just fine with. I am willing to share as much as I can with other midwives around the world in the hopes of helping women and babies everywhere. If more people cared about moms and babies, this wouldn’t be happening. There is no excuse in this day and age.
Being a mother of 3,grandmother of 2..It is so heartbreaking seeing what these poor women have to endure during a time that is supposed to be sacred and beautiful...When my children and grandchildren were born we had good private insurance and we got the 5 star treatment, my Dr. even sent me flowers and a fruit basket!! Yet these poor women can't even get the bare minimum of basics! Not even clean water to drink!! Something has hot to be done for these women,😢 it has to get better for them ,because it certainly couldn't be much worse!!! Im praying for you ladies...God bless you
@TheArtistsHeart Studio..so very well said..t.y. ..what can we do? Spread the word in every which way we can..hoping others will do the same..I love 3Adult daughters and 6grandchildren..all Blessed in birthing process..am wishing the same for ALL women and their 👼 s..moi, Canada 🇨🇦
I wish to donate for saving those precious lives of mothers. .... So terrible heart wrenching 😢😢😢.motherhood is blessing it should not cause harm to lives, God bless me to improve me this scenario.
God bless my African people love u from USA new York city
My father is from Sierra Leone..his mother died shortly after he was born..this just hit me like a ton of bricks...I v e nvr bn to Sierra Leone..time to make the journey...proper health care is a human right ..God's peace and blessings to the Shyllon Family and everyone in Freetown.
Hello
if ur father is from sierra leone then YOU are from sierra leone
Yes u need to go
Prayers for this country 🙏🙏🙏🙏There government is at fault. They should help these people like out government does. It's just so sad so sad. I pray to God above to improve this situation 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
such a tragic report. wish i could afford to sponsor even 1 clinic.
God!... If I were rich I would go there regularly and provide them with everything they need to treat the women at local clinics (medical equipment, drugs, etc.!) and to train midwives that could travel in secluded areas!...
I would arrive there with TRUCK LOADS of medical necessities to save these women and their babies!...
Heck! I would buy these midwives cars!...
Even in 2009, this was not acceptable for women to die while giving birth!...
This is so sad that so many women are dying giving birth and its shameful for people who can do sth but not doing in reality. god Bless them who to who cares about them and help them...May more help goes to them
This is terrible I feel so bad for all these woman...😓💔 I live in Canada and I get full coverage for being pregnant I even got a doula through support programs I am in. I hope one day countries like this are able to flourish with amazing health care and funding 🙏🏻😓💕
This is so Heart Breaking, just to have a baby is or can be dangerous.🙏🙏🙏
Any update on this story ? Is it better 11years later of worse ?
A lot of these women are not women they are girls /children giving birth.So so SAD.
I am in utterly pain for these women..the most basic of women's privileges, honor, pride ..dying for giving birth ..I want to help..what to do on a large scale..please, please tell me..moi, 😖 Canada 🇨🇦
It is hard to watch such poverty and corruption.
oh my god'so much pain.
Instead of buying guns for war, we should spend money to help women in Sierra Leone. I was born c section in Zimbabwe and am healthy. Why cant other kids be born healthy, and other mothers give birth safely?
Misty Wind
I'm an American woman.. I just had a baby and my pregnancy and birth was very dangerous so this video touches my heart. how can we help them? maybe a website to donate money? I don't know but we need to help our sisters in poor countries!!
I wanna move here and save all of em!
This was uploaded on my birthday and I'm so weirded out
Hospitals don't even have basic supplies.
So many intelligent educated women, doung their best, bloody men in power need to do something.
This problem is very easy focus the government in medical problem women should take pills or use condom to control populations.Educate men and woman’s about safe sex to avoid pregnancy.This country need a strong leader not a corrupt one.I think all system of Africa are almost same.God bless Sierra Leon.
Hello! Any up date?
What is the grandmother giving the baby, I would think her milk was dried up
She's trying to sooth the baby. Its obviously hungry and in need of comfort. And if the grandmother does have milk likely not a lot of it. :( my baby nurses for comfort all the time. She never took a pacifier/dummy so she just nurses or sucks her thumb for comfort.
I don't get it… Women in these countries don't work outside the home and their field… They stay at home to have children and to raise them so of course they don't have the money!...
My question is WHERE are the husbands that are supposed to be the providers?!... WHERE are the in laws that married these women to their sons so she can produce grandsons?!…
How can you look the women, the young girls' parents in the eyes and tell them "your daughter died because we would not pay for normal, basic maternity care, we crossed our fingers and hoped for the best"?!...
At 10:46, the forgot or intentionally left out, the fact that some are not even "women" but young girls, teenagers whose body is not ready to carry out a pregnancy and a delivery...
At 13:36, FINALLY some commun sense!... A community mutuel help fund to help women get maternity care!... If everybody in the community provides just a few pennies it can go a long way and save lives!...
you know what? i'm medical student, studying general medicine.. all of medical student in my university during their internship, WE DOING NOT JUST SOME VOLUNTEER WORK....we are must do volunteer work in all division (about almost 2 years) ..
I wanna help these women where do i go to help
Any update? Has things gotten better? Well, hopefully
more people from privileged background should watch this video. young kids too so they know how lucky they are to be born in civilized nations. I am from Malaysia and when i saw this video i thank god that my country while not great could at least provide her citizen with basic health care.
And proper medical care should be available for these poor women and the men and children also..it's a shame they are living like this
Don't just be sorry for them.. Help them while a dollar can buy u a bag of chips for them it could save a life think of that please god bless u all
Also, the war there in Sierra Leone has done much to ruin the infrastructure.
since the government is not working men should be responsible and persuade themselves in excepting family planning
The title is true, but I would die for my baby though
That is so sad..why can't Drs without borders work there... And what about UNICEF helping out.. I think these people need to be sponsored by someone.. rest in peace mothers and children
Why o why is this allowed to take place there government should definitely do more to help these women it doesn't just effect the husbands but all the family even the new born who survived
I don't mean to be insensitive, but how is the grandmother still lactating?
@Koenigskind23 omg yes ur right some of them r forced into marriage
Africa....I was a nurse there. So sad. Women are not only circumcised, but many do not survive childbirth.
That circumsision on women is evil. They should castrate a few men and see how they like it....if it's good for the goose it's good for the gander. Why did that woman twist that babies head after nursing it. You could see that it caused the child pain. Some people should not be parents at all.
What are the exact medical causes of the women dying in childbirth? All I can gather is it's because they're poor. What's going on here? Why are they having severe hemorrhaging after childbirth? Is the placenta allowed to be delivered on it's own? Are they massaging the fundus to help it contract, especially after multiple births?
the British people have to do alot more to help the people in their Commonwealth countries. they have to build big modern hospital and provide transportation for women to get to these hospital. teach them about birth control. in the states they give shots that are birth control. instead of pills. they last longer. when they are nice pregnant they need to go to modern hospitals. I like the royal family but I think they can do alot more. and also they need free public schools for every child up to age 16. maybe Megan and Harry can bring these people into the 21st century.🙏💙
Pls put a link where one can help the babies .
Babies are so cute you know my dear Friends out there.
WOW OBVIOUSLY THE "1ST LADY" DOESN'T GO WITHOUT FOOD, SIT'S IN HER CHAIR WEARING SOME PRETTY NICE GOLD EARINGS, NECKLACE & BRACELET, IS SHE TAKING $$ OUT OF HER POCKET TO HELP SAVE THE LIVES OF MOTHER & BABY??? SORRY BUT...THIS REALLY BOTHERS ME
Thos makes me ashamed of all the complaints ive made for negligence. .
To see thos and that the chances of survival isnt the greatest for other mum or baby .
Im so lucky im so selfish .
Complaining about low income when they get dollor a day ahhh . Forgive me lord
see.. a REAL FEMINIST would care LESS about the
made up "toxic masculinity" issue, the bogus metoo movement, and put more ENERGY into issues like this one.
I'm an American and I say we need to STAND UP AND HELP OUR SISTERS in these poor countries. They are dying while doing the most miraculous amazing thing.. bringing LIFE into the world.. how tragic.
this is not just inafrica, but in many countries across the world. they should not be dying at childbirth for conditions that are easily treated had they been blessed to be living in USA.
how can we help them?
How can the grand mother be breast feeding the baby ? Adele's baby
Cuz grandma is still nursing more of her own?
Yes, I believe she's nursing other infants too. If not she would not have milk in her breast.
I think woman can lactate if they have before. She's probably nursed several children
What has changed?♥️
Just don't have sex. that will fix so many of your problems. Relax, what I want to say is that these people should have safe sex and create a safe environment for everyone first in their community by creating new facilities and then reproduce. That will surely lower a lot of psychological and physiological pain these communities are going through. Also, let's stop treating these people like third world and start allowing them to make better decision for themselves. Give them the tools and let them learn what is good for them.
itsma name So how is the human race going to be continued?
dancerlove30 Okay maybe vitro fertilisation can be of a help here but as we know not everyone can afford such a service. Moreover, In the present, Earth is already over populated so at this point we need to lower our fertility rate in the developing country considerably before we have major food and water crises. Look I will stop being a jerk now but the obvious answer here is that people in these particular and similar situation where they do not have adequate access to health services need to be educated and have knowledge on how to have safe sex. To put it simply, use a condom, take a birth control pill or just use a different type of contraception. However, due to social and religious norms some people voluntarily won't have safe sex or just won't have access to contraception because the place where live at is highly isolated. So, in order to save lives just stop having sex till you have 1) adequate protection (Medication, health services or in a safe environment 2) reliable contraception 3) the want to have children 4) a safe place in life 5) a comprehensive understanding about WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO YOURSELF, LIFE THAT YOU WILL BE BRINGING IN THE WORLD AND YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER. Think of me what you like but if having sex was going to put the lives at grave risk cause of the health services around me where understaffed, under equipped and largely under funded then I am not doing it.
***** 1) When the fuck did I insist, imply or say that a women should sell her body so she could food on the table. How disturbed are you?. STOP YOUR FEMINAZISM and stop imposing your opinions on others cause you feel validated somehow within yourself. That is plain stupid. To me no women should ever have to sell her body to feed herself or her family. She should be an educated individual and have some dignity and respect. If she is poor then at least she should have the courage to live her life the way she can even with the limited resources she has.
2) I said do not have sex because if having sex in an area where hospital was miles away from where you live, under funded, understaffed or overpopulated by sick people cause they weren't receiving adequate medical attention then I rather wanna do something about that problem first and later on have children. Hence, I meant improve your living conditions first and then decide to have sex or children.
3) You asked "So you want to take the joy of motherhood away from these women?" No. There are many ways women can feel the joys of motherhood by actually adopting a child. Yes, people can adopt now and yes women do that cause some of them actually can't have children (unfortunately). Giving a birth is not the only way a women can achieve the status of a mother she can also adopt and look after her child and she would still be considered a mother.
4) You said "Can't you see how poor they are?" Yes, I do have a conciousness and eyes that allows me to understand how horrible there living condition is. Unfortunately our world is not a utopia. These women and the rest of the society is living in some of the most worst living condition women and the rest of the human society has to live in. I feel rumours and great deal of sorrow for them. I hope there government can find a way to fix this situation as soon as possible cause this extremely horrible situation.
Bijoux E. Carter Fuck off idiot. You clearly don't get what I was trying to say.
+itsma name 😀👍👍👍
These women know the risks they are facing when they get pregnant,why keep getting pregnant knowing the horrible situation they will be in and the circumstances they are in? Why not wait till things improve and they are in a better situation to bring a helpless baby into the world ? Contraception should be considered for these women till funding is available,the women know they could lose their lives giving birth yet still continue to have intercourse and get pregnant knowing this,and they know their child will be born into poverty and illness,it dosent make sense,I'm sure contraception could be funded until things get better and funding is available for health care etc so women don't lose their lives during pregnancy and during or after giving birth
I think your idea is great but the problem is funding. War is expensive, and contraceptives such as an IUD can cost even a woman in the U.S. up to $500 and that bec of a labor involved. You need qualified nurses and OBGYNs to insert the IUD and that is what costs a lot of money. So now the price becomes even higher. BC pills month to month is a monthly payment most people can’t afford. In this video they said healthcare for pregnancy is « supposed » to be free but it’s not bec surprise surprise healthcare is not free. Even if the government is paying for it they still use your taxes for funding so it is not free in the slightest.
It doesn't matter how much money we throw at Africa it will never change enough to help these women.
Stop having children! Why should the whole world help you? Get up and do something in life.
Birth control would help
I sure wish I had money so I could help my God I would help so so many all over if I could
My tummy is 3 inches out and hard and my bones are 3 inches inwards
???
Is milk coming out of grandma?
FMG is one of the horrible reasons
At all cost I'm not having csearean section
Even death?
I mean donations.
they shld get free supplies of better modern technology sent to their country...or to any 3rd world countries!they may be poor,but they are humans as well..and they to need to start their generation tree!
How come Sierra Leone is such a poor nation.
Can we get them birth control! I would be willing to donate & help if I can?
Karen Smith they have a right to reproduce you arrogant fool
😢😢😢😢😢😢😔
so so sad. XXI century?
The problem is corupt officials, the money buys cars and goodies for them not for health care
Old video
sad...
Use birthcontrol
aw
Actually, although FGM can lead to childbirth complications, uncircumcised women also have trouble giving birth. It has more to do with the shape of the pelvis. African women typically have a square, male shaped pelvis, and that reduces the opening. It's complicated.
Really? Do you have any links to sources?
Interesting
If you can't feed them don't breed them
This is what you get for FGM.
Ime so sorry, but I kinda blame the children too.
???
For what?
I hope you're trolling. smdh