January 2025

Chapter 12 ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics

by faithgibson January 16, 2025

Chapter 12 ~ WC 7703 *** last edited 01-21-2025 @ 12:13 pm Two of the most popular obstetrical interventions ~ Induction and Episiotomy Induction vs. Mother Nature The ‘normal’ length of labor is nine months, give or take a few days. The most frequent time for a healthy pregnant woman to spontaneously go into labor […]

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Chapter 11 Obstetrical franchise etc – correct title later

by faithgibson January 16, 2025

Word count 2701 Jan 2025 Chapter 11 ~ Common Sense The conduct normal childbirth in hospitals under conditions of surgical sterility was originally done because it was the only method available in the last 1800s to prevent the epidemic of puerperal sepsis in institutional settings. Even though it was obvious that aggregating women in an […]

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Chapter 10 ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!)

by faithgibson January 16, 2025

Word count 6687 Jan 2025 Editor’s Note-2-self –>this post is currently being edited ~ 01-17-2025 @7:20 pm WC 6676 (best not over 2,000 words — equal reading time of 15-16 minutes  Chapter 10   “With sufficient repetition, perception becomes a reality” Childbirth in 2005 ~ as childbearing women suffer needlessly from dangerous obstetrical excesses, midwifery continues […]

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Brief excerpt from older version of “Trapped on wrong side of history” for Suzanne ^0^

by faithgibson January 15, 2025

A brief excerpt post for Suzanne: “How Childbirth Got Trapped on the Wrong Side of History” The Private and Personal Before the Political Before returning to the big issues of organized medicine (AMA), obstetrics as an exclusive franchise (i.e. legal monopoly), and the racial politics of the Deep South during the legalized segregation of the […]

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Chapter 9 draft ~ The Obstetrical Franchise In America: The 20th century Gender War btw Midwifery and Obstetrics (spoiler alert – obstetricans won, midwives and childbearing women lost!)

by faithgibson January 13, 2025

Word count 4121 Jan 17, 2025 Chapter Nine Vagina By-pass Surgery: What it actually means for the childbearing woman when her baby is delivered by Cesarean section   The last of our three areas of scrutiny is Cesarean section, reasons why such surgery would be performed and the immediate, delayed and downstream consequences of its […]

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