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A journalism student recently interviewed me for a research project and then produced this article that was published in Queer'd Magazine.
Midwifery The Birthing Process Reborn?
By Maria Murriel
maria.murriel@queerd.com
http://queerd.com/2011/08/07/midwifery-the-birthing-process-reborn/
Midwives play crucial role in reducing deaths during childbirth,” says the World Health Organization’s first State of the World’s Midwifery report, released in June 2011.
You may wonder, “Is this true? Isn’t using a midwife primitive, unsafe, or just way less reliable than the good ol’ medical technology at a hospital?”
Maybe not.
In 2001, midwives attended only four percent of births in the United States. That same year, the infant mortality rate in America was higher than that in nine European countries where midwives attend at least 75 percent of births.
The truth is that births have been happening smoothly for quite a while now, without doctors and epidurals, and midwives have been assisting women for a long, long time. Not to say that midwives hold the magical key that counters perinatal death, but perhaps the Great American Birth Mechanism needs a little performance review.
Although the World Health Organization said in 1985 that Cesarean rates should be no higher than 10-15 percent, the national rate in 2009 rose to 34 percent. That’s more than one in three women having C-sections.
“Midwives are becoming an option,” says Sheila Simms Watson, Licensed Midwife at Spirit of Life Midwifery, “because women have access to information now".
please read more...http://queerd.com/2011/08/07/midwifery-the-birthing-process-reborn/
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