The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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Please sign a petition urging fair and equal treatment. [English version is second half of page] Dr. Gereb is the only doctor in Hungary ever sentenced to imprisonment because of alleged malpractice. Her charges stem from attending a homebirth in a hostile environment. More information [Facebook page] |
This picture was originally entitled "Women as Explained by Engineers", and somebody sent it to me as an engineer joke, but it seemed like such a great depiction of the way obstetrics (a male-dominated field) views laboring women - as if they have an on/off switch, and pitocin turns the switch on.
Midwives (a female-dominated field for sure) tend to have a better understanding of the psyche of the laboring woman, who is under the influence of a symphony of complex hormones.
Disclaimer - This is intended to apply to laboring women only - I certainly
do not intend to imply that all women are always like this.
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