A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first….

You can't be said to make a choice when you only have one option..

Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital birth….

Labor will hurt. Probably a lot. But whether this is negative is another matter... A laboring woman can be in a great deal of pain, yet feel loved an….

Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found….

When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain..

In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiot….

Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal..