11/26/2025
We need to stop dancing around the truth:
The United States, the wealthiest medical system on earth, has the highest maternal death rate of all developed countries.
Women here are more likely to die giving birth than in places with far fewer resources, fewer machines, and fewer “protocols.”
Why?
Because the problem isn’t women’s bodies.
It’s the model of care.
A model obsessed with control.
A model that sees pregnancy as pathology.
A model that treats healthy laboring women like medical emergencies waiting to happen.
The majority of complications we see in U.S. hospitals are not random tragedies…
they are iatrogenic, meaning caused by the system itself.
Unnecessary inductions → hemorrhage.
Aggressive Pitocin → fetal distress.
Supine pushing → oxygen compromise.
Cascade of interventions → emergency C-sections.
Trauma → postpartum complications that are never counted.
This isn’t rare.
This is the American maternity system.
And yet when the system creates the crisis, it blames the mother’s biology:
“Your pelvis is too small.”
“You’re too old.”
“Your labor stalled.”
“You weren’t progressing.”
But women are dying not because their bodies are broken,
they’re dying because the system refuses to respect how their bodies actually work.
This is why Wilting Blossom exists:
to expose the truth hiding in plain sight, that birth in America is not dangerous because of women.
It’s dangerous because of the way women are treated.
Fear labeled as care.
Control labeled as safety.
Compliance labeled as “standard practice.”
Women don’t need more surveillance. They need support, physiology, respect, and space.
The most life-saving change we can make isn’t a new machine or a new drug, it’s trusting women again.
Because when we honor physiology, outcomes improve.
When we stop interfering, birth works. And when we give women their power back, mortality goes down everywhere in the world.
The U.S. isn’t failing because women’s bodies are dangerous.
It’s failing because the system is.
