User:Kyleruss311/Childbirth in rural Appalachia

For my Wikipedia contribution, I would like to contribute more to the article, “Childbirth in Rural Appalachia.”  Childbirth in rural Appalachia is serious and concerning problem that needs to be addressed. Childbirth in rural Appalachia has the lowest childhood birth success rate out of anywhere in the United States of America. This is extremely heartbreaking and disappointing for not only just for the people who live in rural Appalachia but for those who do not even live in rural Appalachia. No one wants to hear that a child died inside their carrier’s stomach or even when they are just born because this is a devastating tragedy for everyone.

The first reason why I want to contribute to this Wikipedia article is from self-experience. One of my cousins recently was going to give birth to a child that she had carried for 32 week and for some reason her water broke at only 32 weeks. A child is supposed to develop physical human traits inside of it’s carriers stomach for 42 weeks. Since my cousins water broke at only 32 weeks, the child could simply have not been ready for the outside world; therefore, the only decision they had was to abort the baby. This was devastating for not only my cousin but for my whole family to see. It was out of our control for a tragedy like this to happen and I would not want to see this happen to anyone else. Because of this self-experience that I previously had; I am passionate about contributing to this Wikipedia article.

The second reason why I want to contribute to this Wikipedia article is because the Wikipedia article does not really elaborate well enough why childhood birth rates are so low in rural Appalachia. I would like to expand upon the poor conditions that people in Appalachia go through and why the economy of rural Appalachia has very low income for the people who live there. There really is not much in rural Appalachia except for forests and small rural towns. When people are about to give labor, it is necessary for these people giving labor to travel to a hospital or have support by someone who is medically trained. Giving labor in your own property is not the most efficient way to give labor; however, these people in rural Appalachia do not have much of a choice. For some people the nearest hospital is hundreds of miles away, so it is out of their control to visit a hospital to give labor to a newborn child.

Lastly my final reason is because I believe that childhood birth in rural Appalachia is a topic that needs to be elaborated on in Wikipedia because of its importance. I wish that people would understand the hardships that people go through living in rural Appalachia. Childhood birth is just one example of a hardship that people have to experience; however, the childhood birth success rate says a lot more than just people failing to give birth in rural Appalachia. Some people in rural Appalachia literally cannot be supported through an emergency as serious as childbirth. I cannot even imagine all of the other medical needs that these people are not provided with that are necessary to live a healthy lifestyle.

Overall childhood birth in rural Appalachia is a serious problem that needs to be addressed in our society and I simply just do not believe that this Wikipedia article did not do good enough of a job to elaborate on why childhood birth in rural Appalachia is so unsucces