people. If a health care worker is low in agreeableness, they may be less trusting
“Today, the lay midwife is a response to a growing home-birth movement. In my own community most physicians have decided to withhold prenatal care from the home-birther. This is judgmental and vindictive. These doctors have decided that home birth is not safe, and by withholding prenatal care they are doing their best to make sure it is unsafe. Often it is lay midwives who step forward to fill the void and help eliminate the unnecessary dangers of home birth. They are essential for screening out women who really should not have a home birth. For considerably less money than a physician charges, they spend many more hours with a pregnant woman before, during, and after the birth. and in most places they courageously face the opposition of the established medical community.”
― Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way
― Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way
“Before enlightenment, cornflakes and coffee. After enlightenment, cornflakes and coffee.”
― The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal
― The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal
“Today, what's normal is being redefined: from vaginal birth to surgical birth; from 'My water broke,' to 'Let's break your water;' from 'It's time' to 'It's time for the induction.' As medical anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd writes, 'in the early twenty-first century, we do not know what normal birth is.' Most practicing obstetricians have never witnessed an unplugged birth that wasn't an accident. Women are even beginning to deny normal birth to themselves: if 'normal' means being induced, immobilized by wires and tubes, sped up with drugs, all the while knowing that there's a good chance of surgery, well, might as well just cut to the chase, so to speak. 'Just give me a cesarean,' some are saying. And who can blame them? They want to avoid what they think of as normal birth.”
― Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
― Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
“Good midwifery is a combination of art, science, experience, and instinct.”
― Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives
― Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives
“The road to recovery is not linear. It’s not straight. It’s a bumpy path, with lots of twists and turns. But you’re on the right track.”
― Queenie
― Queenie
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