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

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

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

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

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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…

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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…

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

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

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