I chose the childbirth experence of those women who live in Burmese Refugee camps becasue these beautiful people are near and dear to my heart. I have had many Burmese students and so I was interested in seeing how birthing experiences compared with ours. Needless to say, there is no comparison. These refugees live in the camps of Myanmar because they are minorities, mostly Karen. They have little food and no real education. The mothers are unable to read and so cannot understand the instructions of any prenatal vitamins or directions they may possibly receive.  

The latest World Health Organization estimate of maternal mortality for Burma was over 250/100,000 live-births; infant mortality was 50/1,000 live-births, of which, two-thirds occurred in rural areas, and less than half of pregnant women delivered with a skilled attendant. (BNC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2011)

The children born in these refugee camps have no birth certificate and so they have no citizenship to any country making it difficult to impossible to leave the country so their chances are slim of a better life. many refugees are now being sponsored by other countries to give them a new home and a new start. We just do not realize ow lucky we really are here in this country sometimes.

Carrara, V,. Hogan, C., DePree,C., Nosten,F, & McGready, R. (2011). Improved pregnancy outcome in refugees and migrants despite low literacy on Thia-Burmese border: results of three cross-sectional surveys,  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. Retrieved from http://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2393-11-45