Sentences with phrase «doing routine episiotomies»

That's the equivalent of obstetricians insisting that they are going to keep doing routine episiotomies because they believe in them despite the scientific evidence showing harm.

Lactation professionals who resist changes to the Ten Steps are no different from obstetricians who continue doing routine episiotomies.

Neither is a doctor who does routine episiotomies, or doesn't understand how to catch a baby unless mom is laying on her back.

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Ina May Gaskin's C - section statistics over 40 years: 1.7 % American hospital C - section statistics: 32 % not including routine episiotomy and so on... Oh yes, I know who I would trust for my child's birth... And if the price of an intact body and a peaceful birth was «gentle stimulation» I would accept it with no hesitation... Of course I live in France where obstetric violence is the norm and home birth nearly considered as criminal by the establishment, but where puritanism is long gone (thank God)... You may remove this post as you did for my previous one... It's OK we've got lots of you this side of the Atlantic telling us what's good or bad for us and we trust them less and less.

OBs weren't sure whether routine episiotomies were a good idea, so they studied the question, and determined that the answer was no, most of the time it doesn't help, although episiotomy can be helpful in carefully selected cases.

Truly unnecessary interventions, done out of ignorance, stupidity or cruelty are another matter, and are rare, based on old science that has long since been abandoned (routine episiotomy comes to mind), and I would join you in arms to prevent these.

Today, however, research suggests that routine episiotomies don't prevent these problems after all.

Lower your risk: Recent studies have shown that the routine use of episiotomy does not benefit the mother or newborn.