I'm not going to get in the debate about whether it's all about the money
in saving premies.  I get paid to work with many children who were premies.

What I will say is that statistics aren't collected the same across
countries.  A live birth does not the have the same definition across
countries. This also doesn't tell me how many women get pregant and are able
to manage a pregancy to term.
Also, countries such as Cuba and Costa Rica put most of their medical monies
into prenatal and postnatal care but, then don't have money for basic
medicines such as insulin for diabetics.  
I would also want to know if the European countries count non-citizens in
their health statistics.
While I concure, medicine needs to fixing in quite a few areas, the African
American baby birth weight issues are across all class lines.

Beth t the OT

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> On Behalf Of ken barber
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:39 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: us baby death... the reason may be
> 
>   i'd be interested in knowing how many survive and grow up 
> to be productive human beings before deciding how i feel about this. 
>   which is the 1 other you are speaking of? 
> 
> --- [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 
> > The reason may be that in the contury and only 1 other do we 'save' 
> > the littlest preemies.  Only to have the babies die days or weeks 
> > after all the tourture.  Other countries are not playing 
> god and are 
> > letting nature  decide for the smallest babies.  No where 
> elst in the 
> > world do doctors  'save' 20 weeker.
> > Here they do.... it is all about money.

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