Part 1-B (of 5) Obstetricalized childbirth and elimination of midwives from 1820 to early 1900s

by faithgibson March 4, 2025

Continuation ~ Part 1-B  Commonly used obstetrical interventions and why their use is so often a problem for the mother and also results in an unplanned Cesarean surgery The standard obstetrical interventions used in virtually every hospital L&D unit start by putting the newly admitted laboring woman in a hospital bed. This is the most […]

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Part 1-a (of 5) Obstetricalized childbirth and elimination of midwives from 1820 to early 1900s

by faithgibson March 3, 2025

Faith Gibson California Licensed Midwife 041 February 2025 ~ Part 1-a ~ word count: 2117 reading time approximately 15 minutes History of the word “midwifery” The word “midwifery” comes from 16th century Middle English. It simply meant “with-woman” in relation to childbearing. In the narrowest sense, any woman who stays with and helps another woman during […]

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Commonwealth Fund article on disproportionally high Maternal Mortality Rate in United States

by faithgibson March 1, 2025

Insights into the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis: An International Comparison https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/jun/insights-us-maternal-mortality-crisis-international-comparison Toplines The U.S. maternal mortality rate continues to far exceed those of other high-income nations, despite a decline since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic Persistent inequities in health care are a big reason why Black women in the U.S. are by far the […]

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Draft ~ Gender-prejudice in American obstetrics as the root of all evils

by faithgibson February 26, 2025

    Original source file is <Commentary-DrZiegler-presentation-Am-Public-Health Assoc 1921> —> Gender-prejudice as root of all evil — the medical profession’s gender bias against women as the ‘weaker sex’ included obstetricians as a convoluted form of “guilt by association”. Childbirth was seen as “women’s work”, in which only members of the female gender got pregnant and […]

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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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