{"id":12222,"date":"2023-11-17T14:32:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12222"},"modified":"2023-11-17T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:32:35","slug":"its-getting-increasingly-dangerous-to-be-a-newborn-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12222","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s getting increasingly dangerous to be a newborn in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;in 2022, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/vsrr\/vsrr033.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">death rate for American infants increased<\/a>&nbsp;for the first time in 20 years.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;rates of congenital syphilis \u2014 that is, syphilis infections acquired in the womb \u2014 have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2023\/s1107-newborn-syphilis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">risen tenfold<\/a>&nbsp;over the past decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although a lot of different risk factors drive each of these trends, there\u2019s an important one they have in common: bad \u2014 and worsening \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/health-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">health care<\/a>&nbsp;access for mothers and babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the US, the obstacles mothers face in accessing health care are too often insurmountable \u2014 and as this latest data shows, the consequences to American children are dire. Things might only get worse, some experts fear, as financial, political, and social pressures drive providers further from many of the places where they\u2019re needed most.\u201cWe only are hearing about more [obstetricians] leaving and more maternity wards closing,\u201d said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.iu.edu\/faculty\/23603\/wilkinson-tracey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tracey Wilkinson<\/a>, a pediatrician who specializes in reproductive health issues at Indiana University\u2019s medical school. \u201cI am terrified about what the data is going to look like next year.\u201d&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23952456\/syphilis-mortality-death-infant-newborn-congenital-babies-prenatal-maternity-pregnancy-desert\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23952456\/syphilis-mortality-death-infant-newborn-congenital-babies-prenatal-maternity-pregnancy-desert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;in 2022, the death rate for American infants increased for the first time in 20 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;rates of congenital syphilis \u2014 that is, syphilis infections acquired in the womb \u2014 have risen tenfold over the past decade.<br \/>\nAlthough a lot of different risk factors drive each of these trends, there\u2019s an important one they have in common: bad \u2014 and worsening \u2014 health care access for mothers and babies.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, the obstacles mothers face in accessing health care are too often insurmountable \u2014 and as this latest data shows, the consequences to American children are dire. Things might only get worse, some experts fear, as financial, political, and social pressures drive providers further from many of the places where they\u2019re needed most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe only are hearing about more [obstetricians] leaving and more maternity wards closing,\u201d said Tracey Wilkinson, a pediatrician who specializes in reproductive health issues at Indiana University\u2019s medical school. \u201cI am terrified about what the data is going to look like next year.\u201d&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23952456\/syphilis-mortality-death-infant-newborn-congenital-babies-prenatal-maternity-pregnancy-desert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[831,625,53,81,73,619],"class_list":["post-12222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-babies","tag-births","tag-deaths","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12223,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222\/revisions\/12223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}