WI woman bled for 10 days because hospital wouldn't remove incomplete miscarriage

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28. 100 years ago, my grandmother died

of post partum bleeding after giving birth to my mother. So my mother never knew her own mother and I never knew my grandmother. When she died, she left behind my mother (a preemie in an incubator), 6 other children, and a grieving husband and other relatives.

Medicine to stop the hemorrhage was not available then. Today it is. It is unconscionable that we are going backwards in maternal care.

(Obviously, my preemie mother survived. She lived to be 90.)