Sentences with phrase «on women in childbirth»

Did you know that in the ancient civilizations of Babylon, Egypt and China, they have found records of exorcisms performed on women in childbirth?

What has happened is that a male model of physiological activity is being imposed on women in childbirth.

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They pride themselves on their hatred for science, education, women, minorities, children after childbirth and attempts to restrict military guns in civilian hands.

As a woman suffers in childbirth, so Christ suffered in the birthing of God on earth.

Several books are reviewed on the traumas women are unprepared to face in childbirth.

This is the best light I have found to shed on God's word to the woman: «I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth» (Gen. 3:16).

If I may, I think that for the most part, when women * actively * seek out advice on pregnancy, childbirth, and babycare, they DO talk to real people (if they actually know people in real life who have those sorts of experiences, of course).

When I was expecting my 2nd child I had a book on pregnancy and childbirth, which contained photographs of women in labour and during childbirth.

She described how she has witnessed a woman get stuck at 7 cm (or whatever) for hours on end with no apparent physical reason, only to later discover that this women's mother died in childbirth, so this woman was afraid she would die too.

My point is that if you are going to rely on a historical based fear of women and babies dieing in childbirth (which they did and still do) then it is important to look at the correlations and significant factors so you can consciously choose if you want to continue acting from that fear based model.

When these women spend even a few moments on the internet after such an experience, they learn that women in America are not only suffering emotionally, but childbirth outcomes in our country are among the worst of all industrialized countries, with several third world countries demonstrating better outcomes.

It continues on to discuss a mother's options in childbirth with a more natural and holistic woman - centered focus, as per the midwifery model of care.

This comes on top of the already - existing divide between the two views of childbirth, with midwives emphasizing the safety of natural births in a familiar, comfortable setting, while the American Medical Association contends women are best off in a hospital, where life - saving technology is nearby if something goes awry.

These are Black women's voices speaking on intergenerational experiences with and issues surrounding childbirth and their relationship to the history and legacy of traditional birthing practitioners in the American South.

I hope this work receives wide readership and recognition as it expertly describes just what is going on in the minds of women and midwives at all stages of their journey into natural childbirth ideology and is understood by very few in my experience.

The Lamaze technique puts particular emphasis on natural childbirth, but does not in any way judge women who opt for medical intervention and / or pain relief (if you want a prenatal class which specifically promotes birth without medication of any kind, try a class taught according to the Bradley Method - you'll find details online).

AIMSI campaigns on the grounds that birth choice is a basic human right as declared at the International Conference of Human Rights and Childbirth, «It is a fundamental human right for women to choose the circumstances in which they give birth, with whom and where, including a choice between hospital and home birth» and Article 8, European Court of Human Rights

In a perfect world, women (and men) would learn about childbirth from reading books and websites and talking to their care provider (doctor or midwife), to a doula, to their mother, aunts and friends, but unless you live under a rock, women (and men) also learn about childbirth when they are bombarded with images on TV and in movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of controIn a perfect world, women (and men) would learn about childbirth from reading books and websites and talking to their care provider (doctor or midwife), to a doula, to their mother, aunts and friends, but unless you live under a rock, women (and men) also learn about childbirth when they are bombarded with images on TV and in movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of controin movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of control.

this is not neutral ground, this is an incredibly loaded subject dealing with women, women's bodies, medicine, motherhood, etc, etc. and i find it incredibly irresponsible to present «orgasmic birth» somehow as yet another new way of going through childbirth (while implicitly laying the blame of not achieving this on the mother) when it's obviously first of all, not «orgasmic» in the commonly understood sense of the word, nor is it something that is at all common or controlled by the mother.

From 1983 to 1992, I collected data on the pregnancy and childbirth experiences of 100 middle and upper - middle class mainstream pregnant women and mothers, and on the health professionals (physicians, nurses, midwives, childbirth educators) who care for them, through observation and interviews in hospitals, offices, and homes.

of Vermont («Sisters on a Journey: Portraits of North American Midwives»); Jess Fallon, Women's Studies, Wesleyan; Pamela Klassen, Religion, Drew University (spirituality in home birth); Maureen May, Syracuse University (midwifery politics and legislation in New York state); Christina Player (midwifery politics in Massachusetts); Melissa Denmark, University of Florida (the development of direct - entry midwifery legislation in Florida); Fern McGill, Antioch University (an investigation of feminist positions on childbirth), Kate Masley (the political economy of reproduction in Honduras and in Cleveland, Ohio), and others not listed here; and as an informal advisor to dozens more.

On the other end of the spectrum, in a Dutch study of women in the Netherlands, PTSD following childbirth was found in 1.2 % of the respondents.

The new WHO recommendations support the rights of women in childbirth and focuses on women - centered care based on human rights.

Focus is on the emotions and psychological processes associated with giving birth and the significance of childbirth in women's lives as well as building theoretical knowledge and learning practical skills.

In the history of childbirth women would continue on with their tasks until the contractions became stronger, although they wouldn't have known to time their frequency and length as we do today.

In fact, about 1 in 4 U.S. women carry these bacteria, which they can pass on to their baby during childbirtIn fact, about 1 in 4 U.S. women carry these bacteria, which they can pass on to their baby during childbirtin 4 U.S. women carry these bacteria, which they can pass on to their baby during childbirth.

In this study we aimed to identify profiles of pregnant women based on their attitudes to and beliefs about birth and their levels of childbirth related fear.

A 2014 article in the International Journal of Childbirth Education reported on a study of pregnant women who had experienced gestational diabetes in previous pregnancies.

The policy that we have on childbirth, the fear that we instill in women about childbirth having to go in terrified.

In Ireland, there is a dearth of research on women's views about important elements of their childbirth experiences.

Greater information and research on what can make for an easier labor and pain management experience also means women are more in control than ever of their personal comforts during childbirth.

As one woman wrote in response to an Austin Moms Blog post on natural childbirth: «I had my first baby with epidural, and the second was a natural birth.

If a pregnant woman is being educated on the her role in active childbirth (that's what majority birthing classes do) than it is obstetrical care which is included in the definition of medical care.

-LSB-...] Part 1 (Thoughts From a Mother of Four) is here, part 2 (Mother of Seven Shares Her Empowering Birth Stories) is here, part 3 (First - Time Mother of Twins) is here, part 4 (How First - Time Parents Braved a Placental Abruption) is here, part 5 (Childbirth Collective Doula Film Premiere) is here, part 6 (First - Time Mama Bravely Faces Transverse Baby & C - Section) is here, part 7 (Homeschooling Mama Shares Her Path to Schooling) is here, part 8 (First - Time Papa's Perspective on Birth Center Birth) is here, part 9 (Mama's First - Time Birth and Faith in Women's Bodies) is here, and part 10 (Unmedicated Birth for First - Time Parents) is here.

Dr. Robert Bradley was an American obstetrician who personally got involved in more than 23,000 childbirths where above 90 % of the handled women reported on doing it without medication.

AIMS Ireland campaigns on the grounds that birth choice is a basic human right as declared at the International Conference of Human Rights and Childbirth, «It is a fundamental human right for women to choose the circumstances in which they give birth, with whom and where, including a choice between hospital and home birth» and Article 8, European Court of Human Rights Click here.

Some women in an attempt to investigate childbirth options find themselves labelled by the health professionals, on whom they rely, as being «difficult» or «untrusting» [10].

While the book approaches childbirth with the premise that most women can and should seek a birth experience that offers the least possible number of medical interventions, it also includes a chapter on complications in pregnancy requiring the expertise of an obstetrician.

Without blaming each other, let's just admit there is major fault in our medical system if hospitals are not required to report on specific cause of death when women and babies die in childbirth.

Power analysis, based on detecting a significant difference in the combined frequency of non-optimal factors during and after childbirth, led us to aim for a sample size of 1600 women, with approximately half being multiparous and preferably half choosing hospital birth.

The whole concept of pain in childbirth is so mishandled that many women today falsely believe based on their own (or others») bad experience that there is no way to manage labor so that pain is really nothing more than stretching, discomfort, or hard work.

On the eve of its independence South Sudan was a nation with only 100 miles of paved road and in which a woman had a greater chance of dying in childbirth than of achieving literacy (According to UNICEF 1/9 women die in childbirth while only 1/100 complete primary school).

Regardless of the mechanism, paleoanthropologist Karen Rosenberg of the University of Delaware in Newark says that the findings emphasize the unique pressures childbirth puts on a woman's frame.

During childbirth, in the 13th dynasty of the Middle Kingdom in ancient Egypt, a woman would squat on a pair of elaborately decorated clay bricks and recite spells to call on Hathor, the goddess of fertility and motherhood, in an effort to protect her newborn child.

And painkillers used in childbirth work three times better on red - haired women than on others.

Her recent book Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Balance Family and Careers from Oxford University Press is co-authored with her daughter Eve Mason Ekman and investigates the effect of marriage and childbirth on the careers of young women in worlds of law, medicine, science and academia.

Also I find many women's pelvis are still in a childbirth position with their sit bones splaying out to the side putting stretch on the pelvic floor tissues.

Which is really too bad because we have an urgent problem in America: our maternal mortality rate is among THE HIGHEST in the industrialized world (depending on the index you look at), our infant mortality rates are unacceptable, the inequalities in the way women of color and poor women are treated is literally a human right crisis, our new moms suffer from postpartum depression mores than so many other countries, and in many ways we have taken the joy and awe out of childbirth and infancy.

Adventures in Natural Childbirth: Tales from Women on the Joys, Fears, Pleasures, and Pains of Giving Birth Naturally

They pride themselves on their hatred for science, education, women, minorities, children after childbirth and attempts to restrict military guns in civilian hands.