One study found that about 1 in 25 women in the United States who deliver their baby through their vagina get heavy bleeding afterward.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Maughan KL, Heim S, Galazka SS.
Preventing postpartum hemorrhage: managing the third stage of labor.
American Family Physician. 2006; 73: 1025-1028. Available at http://www.aafp.org (accessed on 27 January 2008).

 

 

 

 

 

¹ When women from around the world were included in studies, researchers found that about 1 in 10 get heavy bleeding after delivery.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
World Health Organization.
World health report 2005: make every mother and child count.
Available at http://who.int (accessed on 29 January 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

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In poor countries, women may have many children, or they may not get a lot of care during and after childbirth. These things may make them more likely to bleed heavily after their baby is born.

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