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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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Mayday! 3: The Bad Old Days ~ Childbirth before the scientific practice of medicine & discovery of antibiotics

by faithgibson May 5, 2019

Easy-to-share link:  https://tinyurl.com/y3rbgdet Part 3 But first, a brief synopsis of part 2 Obstetrics — Before and after the rise of modern medical science Scientific obstetrics remains one of the most important medical miracles of all times. Before childbearing women and newborns had access to modern obstetrical medicine and equipped hospitals, simply being a childbearing […]

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MedScape Article –> To Maintain Trust in Science, Lose the Peer Review

by faithgibson April 23, 2019

Re-post from MedScape – very controversial but all too true! Easy Tiny URL to share:  https://tinyurl.com/y6pjxyl9 To Maintain Trust in Science, Lose the Peer Review Benjamin Mazer, MD, MBA; John M. Mandrola, MD February 19, 2019   “Trust me, I’m a doctor.” In the Internet age, that phrase has never been more fraught. Uncertainty is […]

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BBC report – The Monkey Who became a Midwife

by faithgibson February 24, 2019

Documented story by Japanese researchers of an experienced 5-times mother monkey midwifing a younger monkey giving birth for the 1st time   http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141006-the-monkey-that-became-a-midwife Midwifery has been believed to be a unique human behaviour Giving birth can be a wonderful, literally life-affirming event. But one extraordinary monkey has taken it to a new level; by acting […]

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