Our 50th wedding anniversary (left to right) ~ My son Todd, eldest daughter Shawn, husband Richard, me, and youngest daughter Holly
~ Special Links CALM Midwives ~ https://tinyurl.com/y4v323ux
Read About:
♣ Ending the inappropriate and ineffective use of continuous EFM as the standard of care in the US for healthy women with normal pregnancies
♣ Establishing auscultation as the science-based standard for
healthy childbearing women with low-risk pregnancies
Reading opportunities
for inquiring minds
1. Time-traveler’s Perspective on Normal Childbirth
faith gibson, LM, Journal BIRTH Sept 2011
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 False Association btw Continuous Electronic Fetal Monitoring & increased use of Cesarean surgery as a strategy for preventing cerebral palsy & reducing malpractice lawsuits against doctors & hospitals
~ Intro & Overview of a 7-part Series
C-EFM
Intermittent Auscultation
Tiny URL to share –> http://tinyurl.com/y3ty2392
4. The Economic Story of American Hospitals:
The invention of elective hospitalization in 1914, which
created the economic engine for our private &
corporate-owned American hospital system
5. The original Source Material for the economic story
of the for-profit American hospital system
in the 20th & 21st-century
Overview & links to original 8 chapters
of Dr. Williams’s Historic 1914 book: “Twilight Sleep:
Simple Discoveries in Painless Childbirth“
Dr. J. Whitridge Williams, Gynecological Surgeon, John Hopkins, 1893-1898; Chief of Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins, 1899-1911; Dean, John Hopkins Medical School, 1911-1923; b. 1866, d. 1929
6. PDF link –> Man-Midwives ~The Historical Tension
Between Midwifery and Obstetrics During the 20th century
7. ~ VBAC as a core issue & example US dysfunction maternity care
(including hx of obstetrics & gynecology in
American as a new surgical specialty)
External suturing the Cesarean incision after the surgeon lifted the incised uterus up and out of the abdomen to sit on the mother’s external abdominal skin
Faith’s Websites:
American College of Community Midwives
California College of Midwives
Garden Party Patriotism
HealthCare_2.0
OneTrueThing
Ca-LM.org
iBirth.org
~ Faith’s 5-part Video on Mfry Licensing
Interviewed by Kathi Valeii
(“Birth Anarchist” webwife)
~ Other Interesting Links to Hx or Unusual Documents
The story I hate to tell & no one should ever have to hear::
the dark history of obstetrics overview (part 1 of 7)
Historical Overview: How the ‘wrong use’ of obstetrics came to be
the standard of care for healthy women in the US in 1910
NYT OpEd by Amy Tuteur May 2, 2016
Misc. September 26, 2018