In your own time : how Western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop /
Wickham, Sara,
In your own time : how Western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop / Dr Sara Wickham ; foreword by Julie Frohlich. - viii, 194 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
The advantages of the waiting days -- Why doesn't every woman get to birth in her own way? -- Guidelines, evidence and listening to women -- Due dates, windows and why the computer shouldn't decide -- Induction in late pregnancy -- Your baby isn't like a pumpkin -- Does my baby look big in this? -- Too old, too fat, too black, too risky? -- Addressing the induction epidemic.
"Pregnant women and maternity services are facing an induction epidemic. As medical guidelines include more "at risk" categories, women and our already overwhelmed and under resourced maternity systems are increasingly pressured to induce birth before labour begins spontaneously. Women are deemed to be too large and too old, while babies are estimated to be too big and too overdue. But is 'better-out-than-in' really a safer option than waiting to birth in your own time? Staggeringly, over a third of all pregnant women have their labour medically induced, and this is accompanied by a tsunami of avoidable medical interventions. Worldwide, this trend is growing at an alarming rate. This is despite both a lack of evidence demonstrating its benefits and a wealth of evidence indicating the significant short- and long-term negative impacts of induction on the health and wellbeing of mothers and their babies"--Publisher's description.
9781914465024 1914465024
Childbirth.
Labor, Induced (Obstetrics)
Obstetrics.
Midwifery.
Labor (Obstetrics)
In your own time : how Western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop / Dr Sara Wickham ; foreword by Julie Frohlich. - viii, 194 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
The advantages of the waiting days -- Why doesn't every woman get to birth in her own way? -- Guidelines, evidence and listening to women -- Due dates, windows and why the computer shouldn't decide -- Induction in late pregnancy -- Your baby isn't like a pumpkin -- Does my baby look big in this? -- Too old, too fat, too black, too risky? -- Addressing the induction epidemic.
"Pregnant women and maternity services are facing an induction epidemic. As medical guidelines include more "at risk" categories, women and our already overwhelmed and under resourced maternity systems are increasingly pressured to induce birth before labour begins spontaneously. Women are deemed to be too large and too old, while babies are estimated to be too big and too overdue. But is 'better-out-than-in' really a safer option than waiting to birth in your own time? Staggeringly, over a third of all pregnant women have their labour medically induced, and this is accompanied by a tsunami of avoidable medical interventions. Worldwide, this trend is growing at an alarming rate. This is despite both a lack of evidence demonstrating its benefits and a wealth of evidence indicating the significant short- and long-term negative impacts of induction on the health and wellbeing of mothers and their babies"--Publisher's description.
9781914465024 1914465024
Childbirth.
Labor, Induced (Obstetrics)
Obstetrics.
Midwifery.
Labor (Obstetrics)