Historical Childbirth Politics 1820-1980

Welcome to the New Version of my oldest and dearest website “CollgeOfMidwives.org”

by faithgibson August 1, 2012

Why another web site about childbirth and old-fashioned ideas life midwifery? I began my first website — www.collegeofmidwives.org — in 1994, when I still had to write HTML code to get anything posted on the World Wide Web. Then I moved to a much easier and more reliable web design program (MS’ FrontPage). I often get […]

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1. How to tell the last and most important untold story of the 20th Century ~ interventive obstetrical care for healthy women w/ normal pregnancies

by faithgibson July 1, 2007

Reading time ~ 11 minutes Telling the last and most important untold story of the 20th Century A “perfect storm” of unnecessary obstetrical interventions turned healthy women into the patients of a surgical specialty, and turned normal childbirth into a surgical procedure This was the most profound change in childbirth practices in the history of […]

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The Birth of Industrialized obstetrics: FORCEPS – Microcosm of Difficulties to Come

by faithgibson November 17, 2006

The first act of the industrial childbirth revolution was the invention of obstetrical forceps in 1650. According to historians, the first functional pair of forceps was due to the ingenuity of an English family of doctors – patriarch William Chamberlen, sons Peter I and Peter II and grandson, Peter III. It was William Chamberlen’s accurate […]

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