Maternity deaths rise - The Sunday Times 25th November 2007

THE number of maternity deaths in Britain has increased over the past three years with doctors blaming increasing obesity, older mothers and the drive towards “natural” birth. An official inquiry is understood to have found that more mothers died from pregnancy and childbirth in 2003-05 than in 2000-02, when the figure was 261. The death rate is also believed to have risen slightly.

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