article_snippet.sent: Christy - who is mother to daughter Grace and son Finn, eight, with Christy Turlington Burns husband of 11 years Edward Burns, 47 - had just given birth to Grace in 2003 when Christy Turlington Burns was struck with a post-partum haemorrhage, causing Christy Turlington Burns placenta to become embedded in Christy Turlington Burns uterus wall.
article_snippet.sent: Christy Turlington Burns suffered massive blood loss and was forced to undergo a painful procedure whereby the doctors manually tore her placenta free without pain relief - an experience that could easily have killed Christy Turlington Burns had Christy Turlington Burns not been in such good hands.
article_snippet.sent: Dedicated: According to the brunette stunner, 98 per cent of pregnancy-related deaths in the world are preventable - a statistic Christy Turlington Burns's determined to change .
article_snippet.sent: Christy Turlington Burns said: ‘What I realised was actually how lucky I had been that so many women don’t even get to choose when so many women become pregnant.' 'so many women don’t get to choose whether so many women will be medicated, or have a natural birth.
article_snippet.sent: According to the brunette stunner, 98 per cent of pregnancy-related deaths in the world are preventable.
article_snippet.sent: But, as Christy Turlington Burns points out, the U.S. is one of the eight countries worldwide where maternal deaths are on the rise.
article_snippet.sent: Christy, pictured with Christy husband Edward Burns, 47, had just given birth to Grace in 2010 when Christy was struck with a postpartum haemorrhage, causing Christy placenta to become embedded in Christy uterus wall .