
05/27/2024
An understanding of physiology should underpin childbirth education. We need to reclaim birth knowledge rather than reinforce and sustain misconceptions created during the medicalisation of women's bodies. Diagrams and teaching aids depicting neat, circular cervical dilation are incorrect and perpetuate misinformation.
https://midwifethinking.com/2016/06/15/the-anterior-cervical-lip-how-to-ruin-a-perfectly-good-birth/