How to Use obstetric in a Sentence

obstetric

adjective

• That is, in part, due to losing access to obstetric wards.
  — IndyStar, 16 Nov. 2021
• That's called doing an obstetric exam, to see if the cow is fertile.
  — Alison Rose, Town & Country, 3 Sep. 2014
• About 39% of counties don’t have a single obstetric provider.
  — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2023
• Data published by the March of Dimes last week show that access to obstetric services across the state remains robust.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• At least 4,300 are believed to be at risk of death and in need of emergency obstetric care, including C-sections.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 23 May 2023
• Severe says Jackson North is also planning to open an obstetric ER in the next few months, and if all goes well, offer water births at the center by 2025.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 11 May 2024
• Eleven of Wisconsin's rural obstetric units have closed in the past decade, including Neillsville's.
  — Parker Schorr, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2019
• Exceptions can be made for pediatric patients, those at end of life and for obstetric patients.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2021
• More than 2 million women live in counties with no birth center or other obstetric care.
  — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
• About half of women who live in rural areas must travel more than 30 minutes to an obstetric hospital, according to the March of Dimes.
  — TIME, 7 May 2024
• Rural hospitals and obstetric wards, already scarce, have shut down in record numbers.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2022
• Some 6 percent of these deaths are from obstetric fistulas, and for each of those deaths, as many as four to five more women will live with an obstetric fistula injury.
  — Ashley Judd, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
• The lawsuits in Tennessee and Idaho, a state where there has been an exodus of obstetric specialists in the past year, include physician plaintiffs.
  — Frances Stead Sellers, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Sadly, a lot of that is rooted in mistreatment and disrespect and obstetric violence in health care setting.
  — Rayna Reid, Essence, 17 Apr. 2022
• For some women, the time and distance from hospitals with the resources and specialists to handle an obstetric emergency can be fatal.
  — Betsy McKay and Paul Overberg, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2017
• In Texas, a woman and her partner may be unable to have children because of delays and dangerous complications to her obstetric care.
  — Jen Stark, Fortune, 20 June 2023
• More than half the counties in the state can be classified as maternity-care deserts, according to a 2023 report from the March of Dimes, meaning there are no birthing facilities or obstetric providers.
  — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
• The hospital where one patient, a 42-year-old mother of four, delivered her babies no longer offers obstetric services.
  — Akilah Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2022
• The general sentiment among pregnant women and midwives was that the method provided more agency, and in turn led to better obstetric outcomes.
  — Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022
• More than a third of counties in Alabama lack hospitals with labor and delivery units or practicing obstetric providers, according to a report last year from the March of Dimes.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2023
• Each additional day, her doctor has told her, makes their birth less likely to require an obstetric or neonatal intervention that might not be available in Gaza.
  — Claire Porter Robbins, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2023
• Some obstetric practices will hand the birthing process over to partner midwives if expectant mothers express a wish for an unmedicated birth.
  — David Howard, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• More than half of rural counties, home to more than 2 million women of reproductive age, don’t have hospital obstetric services.
  — Popular Science, 25 June 2020
• Researchers examined 7,548 women who were part of Allina Health clinics, the largest provider of obstetric services in Minnesota.
  — Priya Iyer, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2021
• There, doctors decided Ellie needed to be transferred to a hospital with obstetric providers.
  — Sarah Maddox, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2023
• To prevent this, Jefferson brought on eight Hahnemann ob-gyns and expanded its obstetric unit.
  — Chris Pomorski, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
• Former employees of the unit have told The Washington Post that plans were already in the works to eliminate obstetric services before regulators acted.
  — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2018
• Counties with a high proportion of Black residents are more likely to lose obstetric services, and rural Black women's maternal death rate is triple that of their white counterparts.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 29 Apr. 2023
• An estimated 2 million women and girls in Africa live with obstetric fistula.
  — Fox News, 2 July 2018
• In labor and delivery, that means obstetric specialists are available purely to respond to patients who come to the hospital, rather than juggling those cases with clinic visits.
  — Rae Ellen Bichell, oregonlive, 17 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024