The Advantages of Giving Birth in the United States

    As many expectant mothers around the globe know, the United States health care system is at the top of the list when it comes to the healthiest facilities to deliver a newborn baby. Not only is North America the best place to have a child, but it is also the safest, least-deadly location on earth for a childbirth to take place. Take a report that was made by CNN a couple of years ago that examined the findings of maternal deaths around the world. The numbers were shocking to readers hailing from many countries, and still have millions of expecting mothers in foreign lands ready to travel to the United States for more appropriate hospital delivery options in 2016.

  

    Hygiene seems to be the biggest problem with giving birth to a child in developing countries. The reason that things are so unsanitary is because in many places across the world, the customs and practices used by health professionals are severely outdated. There are even places where women have to give birth outdoors, or are pressured to have a child before it is time, such as in Nepal. As a result, reports and data show that there are well over 530,000 maternal deaths that occur in the world annually, and virtually all of them happen in developing countries. 

   

    The reason that the U.S. is chosen as the place to give birth to a healthy child in a sanitary, medication-equipped hospital is because there are numerous countries that don’t give a mother and her unborn child the medicinal attention that they need. In fact, in places such as the Netherlands, doctors only are involved in the delivery if there are complications, and midwives do most of the work. What’s worse is that even if this mother does go to a hospital in her home country, an epidural is catered around the doctor’s schedule, and sometimes even laughed upon. In the U.S., an epidural is always an option for mothers in labor.

   

   There are also many other places that have the same practices of labeling painful, natural births as the top choice for expectant mothers. Germany, for example, is another location where many pregnant women are beginning to depart from before going into labor, being that most of the doctors there also don’t step in unless they are absolutely needed for any major problems during delivery. Other places where sometimes untrained midwives are the primary caregivers during childbirth include countries such as Turkey, and the use of painkillers is frowned upon in places like Japan.

    Birth tourism, which operates in a legal gray area, is on the rise in the US. Those, who travel to the U.S. for the delivery of their unborn child, are making the smart and healthy decision. In addition to take advantage of the best medical options available for them to deliver a healthy child into the world, the child born on the US soil is automatically becoming a US citizen according to the Constitution of the United States. The US remains to be a lucrative destination for medical expectant mothers and is expected to be growing, unless the lawmakers change the law.