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Category Archives: Obstetricial Interventions
Activist in Training: Marie R.
First, let me start out by saying that I have not ever given birth and what I am writing about does not come from personal experience. That being said, I am truly shocked at the amount of information that is … Continue reading
In Control
When I was very young I asked my mother what giving birth was like, and she told me it was kind of like lying on a raft in a very fast river. “If you can just lie there and let yourself be carried by the flow, you will be fine. The more you try to fight it and control what is happening, the more everything will spin out of your control.” Continue reading
Posted in General, Obstetricial Interventions, Pregnancy, Prenatal Care
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A Weighty Issue
Americans have been warned for years about the perils of being overweight or obese. Indeed the risks for a host of complications increase steadily as the pounds pile on. For many people, the risks can be temporarily ignored; after all, … Continue reading
Posted in Cesarean Section, Labor and Birth, Obstetricial Interventions, Prenatal Care
Tagged obesity, Prenatal Care
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It can wait for tomorrow…
I had one of those days where I had a list of things to do while out on the town, had my 10 month old in tote, and because of forces out of my control, got none of them done. … Continue reading
Posted in Cesarean Section, Induction, Labor and Birth, Obstetricial Interventions
Tagged cesarean, Induction
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Restriction of Food and Drink in Labor from a Medical Anthropologist’s Perspective
The recent Cochrane review, Restricting oral fluid and food intake during labour, analyzed five studies and concluded that women should be free to eat and drink in labor at will. Since the evidence shows no benefits or harms, there is … Continue reading
Why Our Women are Afraid of Birth
Maybe if the television channels like Discovery health followed a dozen home births or even aired The Business of Being Born they could get a popular, and controversial other side to what they are constantly airing. Maybe it will boost their ratings even more, maybe not? But what it will do is give the other side of the whole issue. Let’s get Marsden Wagner to do a half hour special on Birth in The United States and see how many women run off to the midwives. Instead they air these disgustingly inaccurate “Freebirthing” shows. They find the one idiot who is going to make women who choose unassisted birth look like a bunch of uneducated yokels. Which is exactly what they did with their special on Unassisted birth. Continue reading
Quote of the Day: Make Yourself Look Important and Busy
“A doctor must do something. He cannot remain a spectator merely, where there are many witnesses, and where interest in what is going on is too deep to allow of his inaction.” Walter Channing, 1848 Harvard Medical School professor of … Continue reading