Sentences with phrase «medical birth culture»
In our modern, medical birth culture, we often treat birth as if it is a procedure that we require medical professionals to perform.
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That's what I'm saying too - I think that the real problems that have lead us so far away from breastfeeding are less to do with formula companies and more to do with the completely screwed up North American birth culture where under - informed medical staff are the ones at the steering wheel and we have succumbed to the over-sexualization of breasts and other non-female-friendly cultural ideas that have made breastfeeding «gross», «offensive» or «unnecessary».
And then I got off the mountain and toured a medical facility and halfway house for women suffering from Obstetric Fistula and those two things did more to solidify my view that this pop culture around birth is so elitist and dangerous than the previous 11 years of mothering and being around santicmommies.
2008 «Practitioner Profile: Applying Anthropology to Birth» in Culture and Health: An Introduction to Applied Medical Anthropology, by Michael Winkelman.
Our culture, the media, and now medical professionals treat women's bodies as if they are defective and incapable of birth, many women will never fully experience the empowerment that comes from seeing for themselves what their bodies are capable of.
This 270 - hour Prenatal, Birth and Postpartum Doula program integrates philosophies of multiple medical modalities from various cultures to give students the most comprehensive Doula education in North America.
As our birth culture becomes more and more medical, we seem to be losing traditional wisdom and ways of working with families throughout pregnancy and birth to keep them healthy and well - set up for a healthy, natural birth.