When you really look at the statistics in terms of when bad things happen, more than half

of maternal deaths actually take place after the baby is born in the first six weeks postpartum

and kind of continuing into a year, right?

And so to see people once at the six week point is completely insufficient, and about

30% of maternal mortality events happen during pregnancy, which in a weird way makes labor and delivery the safest part of the entire experience.

And that's the thing that most people are like generally freaking about.

Yeah, that's true.

When I think about like all the maybe like a horror story of like worst case scenario, that's it.

It's like a complication during that process.

Yeah, exactly.

So what that kind of translates into is like on the one hand, we don't have enough care, you know, because it is, you know, you just have these big gaping holes, you know, in between visits, which is when most pregnancies really happening over that 46 week journey from when you first conceive to like, you know, when you're last seen at your six week postpartum visit. And, you know, there's just kind of, we have some care that can happen between visits. And then that postpartum period, which is when things really go wrong, you have a single visit, you know. And so it is pretty relatively incomplete in terms of what people are looking for, but it is, you know, kind of this sort of discontinuous and reactive approach, you know, does kind of create

the outcomes that we sort of talked about.

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