What pisses me off the most about this ‘movement’ is that the guy who’s work is considered to be the foundation of it all was fully in favour of caesarians and instruments in a whole lot of cases; he just didn’t want them pushed on women who didn’t want them
madeline odent
One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...
In the period that Leeds maternity unit had the lowest number of caesareans, its rate of stillbirths and newborn deaths became the worst nationally
