16/05/2024
As childbirth became more medicalised, birth started moving from the home where birthing women would be cared for by wise women and into the hospitals where male surgeons and scientists claimed the domain. The field of obstetrics was born 💰
The maternity system that we have today still operates on many outdated and harmful procedures.
Interventions like episiotomies or forceps for example are being incredibly overused unnecessarily causing more harm than good.
Has the field of obstetrics changed that much when it comes to understanding birth at all? Or are we still being experimented on?
🚩 If you are wanting an intervention free physiological birth, an obstetrician should not be your first point of call.
Obstetricians are trained surgeons there for true emergencies if we need them. They are not familiar with nor have likely ever seen an intervention-free physiological birth.
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