July 2007

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 on July 1, 2007

in Historical Childbirth Politics 1820-1980, OB Interventions: Dubious or Detrimental, Scientific Literature

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 […]