April 2013

Great paper on the evolution of childbirth practices in US ~ Home to Hospital: 1927-1940

by faithgibson April 4, 2013

Miami University ~ Farmer School of Business Department of Economics: Working Paper From Home to Hospital: The Evolution of Childbirth in the United States, 1927-1940  Melissa A. Thomasson Miami University Jaret Treber Kenyon College November, 2006 Abstract: This paper examines the shift in childbirth from home to hospital that occurred in the United States in […]

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Scrippts Media Report: Cesarean NOT safer for healthy women ~ part 2 ~ Commentary and Action Plan

by faithgibson April 3, 2013

Part 2 ~ by FG: Perhaps the most damning and depressing comment about this issues comes from the Medical Leadership Council (an association of US hospitals) which concluded in1996 that the ever-escalating cesarean rate in the US (at that time only 20%) was: “…medicine’s equivalent of the federal budget deficit; long recognized as [an] abstract national problem, yet beyond […]

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Scrippt’s Report: NOT safer for healthy women w/ normal pregnancies to have their baby delivered by Cesarean ~ part 1

by faithgibson April 2, 2013

Cesarean rate is up to one-in-three births, but studies show normal vaginal birth is safer and better for both mothers and babies Excerpts from Scripps Media report –  Posted: 04/01/2013  Most IMPORTANT Information: Strong arguments for encourage vaginal births; national efforts to reduce hospital CS rates: C-sections typically cost about twice as much as a […]

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