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British Regulator Urges Home Births Over Hospitals for Uncomplicated Pregnancies

by faithgibson December 8, 2014

NEW YORK TIMES ~ DEC. 3, 2014 By KATRIN BENNHOLD and CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS LONDON — Reversing a generation of guidance on childbirth, Britain’s national health service on Wednesday advised healthy women that it was safer to have their babies at home, or in a birth center, than in a hospital. Women with uncomplicated pregnancies — […]

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Excerpts — Edinburgh Obstetrical Society Session 1880-1881 ”On the systematic use of antiseptics in midwifery practice”

by faithgibson November 14, 2014

Editor’s Note: These ideas were developed and the paper delivered at the Obstetrical Society before the “germ theory” of infection and contagion was generally understood or accepted. Even for those who had been exposed to the ideas, there was a lot of controversy and difference of opinion. The existence of microscopic organisms and the role […]

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Time to Stop Treating Pregnancy Like a Disease (repost)

by faithgibson June 22, 2014

Canada  It’s time to stop treating (normal) pregnancy (in healthy women) like a disease ANDRÉ PICARD THE GLOBE AND MAIL Last updated Monday, Jun. 16 2014, 6:13 AM EDT All too often, the miracle of birth – such as the arrival of Zoe Marina, with mom Amy Brillon at a home in Richmond, B.C. – […]

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Language as an illegitimate tool to control reproductive biology in healthy CB women

by faithgibson June 19, 2014

You’re Not Allowed to ‘Not Allow’ Me Reposted from BirthMonopoly.org, a consumer-based birth activist blog Editor’s Note: This blog site also has awesome ‘stand-alone’ quotes. Its well worth going to its original site to read. http://birthmonopoly.com/allowed/#sthash.KQNPyOB1.dpuf If you click on any of these graphics-based text boxes,  the quote will automatically re-populate to your Facebook page. […]

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More NYT “Fixes” blog on unproductive obstetrical interventions by promoting physiologic care — “the art of doing nothing well”

by faithgibson May 12, 2014

More From NYT’s blog “Fixes” – Previous contributions to this series on the topic of reducing the rate of unnecessary Cesareans and other unproductive obstetrical interventions in normal childbirth in healthy women. How a new trend for hospitals to employ obstetricians as “hospitalists” is reducing the use of   interventions speed up labor and Cesarean […]

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