May 2019

Episiotomies — more harmful unnecessary interventions by OBs, more hiding high rate of inappropriate interventions by hospitals

by faithgibson May 27, 2019

Re-posted from USA Today An episiotomy is a surgical cut to the vagina during childbirth. A USA TODAY analysis finds a startling number performed despite guidance from 2006. Episiotomies: painful, risky and not routinely recommended but dozens of hospitals are doing them anyway. Alison Young and John Kelly, USA TODAY Updated 12:00 p.m. PDT May […]

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Preventable Maternal Deaths ~ Why Did Lauren Bloomstein Die? (re-post from Mwfry Today, 2017)

by faithgibson May 24, 2019

MIDWIFERY TODAY > ARTICLES > FREE ARTICLES > WHY DID LAUREN BLOOMSTEIN DIE? This is background material from the Mayday! Mayday Mayday! series, which is an urgent Call to all Americans to fix a problem that is wasting millions of healthcare dollars & results in preventable maternal deaths   Why Did Lauren Bloomstein Die? by Marion Toepke McLeanSeptember 1, 2017 […]

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Reposted from TIME ~ We Don’t Have to Imagine the Consequences of Abortion Bans – Just Look to the Past (TIME ~ May 16th)

by faithgibson May 20, 2019

Easy-to-share link for this post: https://tinyurl.com/y59886kh Link to original TIME article  BY LESLIE J. REAGAN  MAY 16, 2019 On Wednesday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the nation’s most extreme abortion bill. If it goes into effect, it would ban abortion almost entirely in the state — in every stage of ­pregnancy — and make it a felony […]

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MAYDAY Series: 4-D ~ Routine use of EFM as failed public health strategy — Trying to build a better mousetrap instead of building a better foundation

by faithgibson May 14, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is the very last post in this series. However it is followed by peer-reviewed studies (full text or substantial excerpts) cited in the Mayday series and essays based on the scientific literature by practicing obstetricians. Please read them as well. The disappointing choice by the obstetrical community to focus on obstetrical technology […]

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Mayday Series: 4-C ~ Development of automated EFM replaces Auscultation 

by faithgibson May 11, 2019

This continues the history of fetal monitoring as a Verb: Development of automated electronic fetal monitors replaces Auscultation With the clarity of hindsight, we now know that just recording the one-minute fetal baseline rate was not sufficient to identify subtle indicators of fetal distress. In the decades before and after the ideas expressed in Dr. DeLee’s 1924 […]

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