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Home Birth in the United States: Action and Reaction by the AMA

by faithgibson February 14, 2025

URL ~ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-536X.2008.00261.x Home Birth in the United States: Action and Reaction https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-536X.2008.00261.x Diony Young 18 November 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-536X.2008.00261.x Citations: 4 Less than 2 percent of babies are born at home in the United States. So, why do home births continue to raise such a red flag for medical organizations? Why do they continue to spend […]

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Citation key to Historical & Contemporary Reference ~ link to Official Plan to Eliminate the MIdwife

by faithgibson February 5, 2025

Historical Perspectives Series   Citation Key Historical and Contemporary References The Official Plan to Eliminate the Midwife International Journal of Domiciliary Midwifery This key gives the full citation for the coded numbers at the end of quotations. A single cited reference number is often at the end of several paragraphs when they are all from […]

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The “new” American Obstetrics as a surgical specialty, circa 1910 turned childbirth upside down, paving the way for the NEJM paper that recommended that vaginal birth be replaced scheduled cesarean as the new standard of care

by faithgibson February 2, 2025

WC 13335 Yikes DRAFT VERSION  The “new” American Obstetrics as a surgical specialty, circa 1910 turned childbirth upside down, paving the way for the NEJM paper that recommended that vaginal birth be replaced by scheduled cesarean as the new obstetrical standard of care   @@@ As a student of American obstetrics, its history and as […]

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Study 2023 ~ Outcomes for Elective Induction at 39 weeks

by faithgibson February 1, 2025

As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature. Inclusion in an NLM database does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by NLM or the National Institutes of Health. Learn more: PMC Disclaimer | PMC Copyright Notice   AJOG Glob Rep . 2023 Jan 29;3(2):100168. doi: 10.1016/j.xagr.2023.100168 Impacts of embracing 39-week elective induction across an entire […]

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Conservative, Responsible, Humane, Woman-centered and Cost-effective Maternity Care in the US ~ Where did it go and how can we get it back?

by faithgibson January 23, 2025

Conservative, Responsible, Humane, Woman-centered and Cost-effective Maternity Care in 21st-Century America Part One ~ The $64,000 dollar questions are: “Where did it go?” & “How can we get it back?” I am not old enough to remember what it was like when physiological care for a normal childbirth was the norm and was typically provided […]

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