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Birth : the surprising history of how we are born
Tina Cassidy describes her grandmother's, her mother's, and her own experiences giving birth, highlighting how the birthing process has changed throughout history and exploring the cultural history of how and why people are born the way they are.
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For expectant women, it's not too much to ask
The Listening to Mothers II report by Childbirth Connection, a New York group founded in 1918 to improve maternity care, revealed that 82 percent of women who experienced an episiotomy said they were not consulted first - and so a doctor went ahead, without warning, and snipped the opening of the birth canal to make it wider. Of the women who wanted a vaginal birth after having had a caesarean, 56 percent said a doctor denied them that option. The irony is that women today are more in control of their reproductive lives than ever, choosing to delay pregnancy until the twilight of their fertile years, writing birth plans telling the doctor how they would like labor to proceed, inviting friends to witness their babies being born, and rejecting hospital johnnies in favor of their own Natori nightgowns. But such decisions can give some mothers a false sense of empowerment and, arguably, make them more vulnerable during birth.
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