February 2023

draft ~ TOPIC-5_p-14_Early 1900s ~ peeling the onion, one layer at a time . . .

by faithgibson February 6, 2023

TOPIC-5_p-14_Early 1900s ~ peeling the onion, one layer at a time . . . How the routine use of obstetrical interventions in the births of middle- and upper-class women in the early 1900s radical changed and redefined obstetrically-managed childbirth for the rest of the 20th and continues to dominate obstetrical practices in the 21st century […]

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draft ~ Topic 4 – The Big Reveal – motives hidden beneath claims OB interventions make childbirth safer healthy women

by faithgibson February 5, 2023

TOPIC-4_Page 13_The Big Reveal ~ Motives hidden beneath claims that more obstetrical interventions make childbirth safer for healthy childbearing women This bring us back to the question I first started asking when I saw the drastic contrast between the non-interventive practices associated with childbirth of black mothers on 1 South, compared to “business as usual” […]

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draft ~ Topic 3 – Ch 1 motives behind 1910 decision by to define normal childbirth in healthy upper-class (white) women as pathological & far-reaching consequences

by faithgibson February 4, 2023

Coped to fg.org as draft TOPIC-3 pages 12 &13 Chapter 1. The motives behind the obstetrical profession’s 1910 decision to define normal childbirth in healthy upper-class (white) women to be inherently pathological and its far-reaching consequences When I was first introduced to the highly obstetricalized childbirth practice of American obstetrics in the 1960s, the unquestioned […]

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draft ~ Topic 1 – The History of Obstetrics in America and why these historic facts still matter in 2023

by faithgibson February 3, 2023

Background Reading ~ Part 1 The History of Obstetrics in America and why these historic facts still matter in 2022 The “new” American Obstetrics as a surgical specialty, circa 1910 turned normal childbirth upside down in the healthy population (75%) of woman, which paved the way for the NEJM paper 74 years later, claiming that […]

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The “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” nature of the obstetrical dilemma

by faithgibson February 1, 2023

Still needs photos The “Jekyll and Hyde” nature of the obstetrical dilemma I haven’t worked in a hospital L&D for many years but the nature of the beast, which is based in “controlling the process”, is not all that different today. It’s still a system in which the use of interventions during labor is the […]

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