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ABC News ran a story proclaiming: “Maternal Mortality Rates Rising in California — New Study Shows More Women are Dying After Childbirth, but Most Deaths are Preventable”

by faithgibson March 8, 2010

On March 4th (2010), ABC News ran a story proclaiming: “Maternal Mortality Rates Rising in California — New Study Shows More Women are Dying After Childbirth, but Most Deaths are Preventable” It’s good that the media picked up this long-neglected story, but unfortunately, the article draws the wrong conclusions while failing to identify the real issue. […]

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Safety and Normal Birth: Turning A Bitter Historical Truth into a Bright Future

by faithgibson April 29, 2009

For three decades, birth activists and the obstetrical profession have hotly debated whether ‘normal’ birth is a functional and dependable aspect of our biology or a dysfunctional and harmful ‘patho-physiology’. Both sides agree that life-threatening complications do occur during pregnancy and childbirth but that is where the commonality stops. They are sharply and bitterly divided […]

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Commentary: On New York Times’ November 25th Editorial on the High Cost of Health Care

by faithgibson February 3, 2008

Originally posted on www.normalbirth.org on December 31, 2007 The New York Times’ op-ed piece on “The high Cost of Healthcare” (11-26-07) was excellent. However, it failed to mention the most frequent, most expensive and most misunderstood healthcare issue in the US – the unnecessary medicalization of normal childbirth for 3 million healthy women every year. […]

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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 July 1, 2007

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 […]

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The Birth of Industrialized obstetrics: FORCEPS – Microcosm of Difficulties to Come

by faithgibson November 17, 2006

The first act of the industrial childbirth revolution was the invention of obstetrical forceps in 1650. According to historians, the first functional pair of forceps was due to the ingenuity of an English family of doctors – patriarch William Chamberlen, sons Peter I and Peter II and grandson, Peter III. It was William Chamberlen’s accurate […]

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