Childbrith in Peru

GRADY, DENISE "Clinic in Rural Peru Draws More Women By Following Local Childbirth Traditions." New York Times 08 Sept. 2009: 6. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 13 Oct. 2009.

This article discusses how rural parts of Peru has one of the highest mortality rates in pregnancy and childbirth. This is due to the fact that most women decide to give birth in their own homes as opposed to going to the local clinic. While at home, most locals trying to help do not really know the correct way to deliver a baby so they are just going along with what they think is the right process. It says only 6% of births in 1999 took place in a clinic. So doctors from a clinic tried to help these local women so they would see the severity of what they were doing. The women did not understand why the doctors made them wear gowns, give birth lying down, and did not allow family members into the delivery room. Most of those aspects of birth we are accustomed to here in the United States.