Reading opportunities for inquiring minds
1. Time-traveler’s Perspective on Normal Childbirth
by faith gibson, LM, published in the journal BIRTH
PDF link: BIRTH-PracPerspective_MyArticle_Sept11_2011
#2. How Normal Childbirth Was Trapped
on the Wrong Side of History:
The Perfect storm that turned healthy childbearing women
into the patients of a surgical specialty and
normal childbirth into a surgical procedure
~ the last and most unimportant
UNTOLD story of the 20th century ~
#3. The Economic Story of American Hospitals:
How the invention of elective hospitalization became
the economic engine for our 20th century private &
corporate-own American hospital system
#4. Original Source Material for the economic story
of the 20th & 21st-century American hospital system
Overview & links to all 8 chapters
of Dr. Williams’s Historic 1914 book
“Twilight Sleep: Simple Discoveries in Painless Childbirth“
#5. PDF link –> Man-Midwives ~The Historical Tension
Between Midwifery and Obstetrics During the 20th century
#6 ~ VBAC as a core issue & example US dysfunction maternity care
(includes hx of Am obstetrics & gynecology
as new surgical specialty)
Faith’s Websites:
American College of Community Midwives
California College of Midwives
Garden Party Patriotism
HealthCare_2.0
OneTrueThing
Ca-LM.org
iBirth.org
Special Links 
~ Faith’s Video
– interviewed by Kathi Valeii (Birth Anarchist website)
NOTE to Shannon Feb 1, 2019 ~ my server is working so I can’t save my
changes. Right now there is a big blank space at top of the webpage,
so drop down till you see me in the first video frame.
Trudy ~ October 08, 2018
~ Interesting Links for Special Friends ~
Temporary Post
~ NYT op-ed ~May 2, 2016 ~