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Access to Prenatal Care Might Mean More Mothers Survive Childbirth and the Year After

Diana Saddler, and her five-month daughter, Anastasia at the Easy Access Clinic in Pine Hills. Photo: Danielle Prieur
Diana Saddler, and her five-month daughter, Anastasia at the Easy Access Clinic in Pine Hills. Photo: Danielle Prieur

Diana Saddler is sitting with her five month-old daughter Anastasia in the Easy Access Clinic in the Pine Hills neighborhood of Orlando. She’s describing how she almost became part of this statistic because of a hemorrhage, that left her unconscious for a few minutes and then hospitalized for several days after.

“Which I lost 200 mL of blood, they have to rush me into the emergency room, they have to rush me into the emergency room.”

The Florida Department of Health estimates that almost a quarter of mothers in the state who die within a year of childbirth, die from excessive bleeding.

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Danielle Prieur covers education in Central Florida.