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Maternal Death? Anna Nicole Smith?

If there were complications five months after giving birth you'd think someone around Anna Nicole would have known about them...

The report below is sourced from Fox News:

The death of Anna Nicole Smith Thursday has fueled wild speculation, with theories on what killed the 39-year old tabloid celebrity ranging from drug overdose, to her remarkable weight loss, to homicide.

But with Smith dying roughly five months after giving birth to her daughter, Danielynn Hope Marshall Stern, the tragic news also serves of a sad reminder of just how vulnerable to maternal death women in the United States still are.

What is maternal death? As defined by the World Health Organization, it is “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes.”

Even such conditions as post-partum depression can factor into a woman’s physical health following a pregnancy.

In some states, a woman’s death can be ruled as a maternal death if she dies within 12 months of the end of her pregnancy. Anna Nicole Smith collapsed and died after being rushed to the hospital just 154 days after giving birth to her Dannielynn.

According to the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, despite the fact that the U.S. is one of the most medically and economically advanced countries in the world, American women experience unexpectedly high death rates during pregnancy and after childbirth. The agency says that two to three women in this country die each day from complications related to pregnancy, and 30 percent of all pregnant women experience some type of illness or injury beyond what is expected during a normal childbirth. The Hedrons