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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]doing something that women have done for millennia, and continue to do, without intervention [/quote]

To be blunt, what women have been doing for millennia= dying of complications of natural childbirth that are readily preventable with modern medical interventions. By itself, the Zavanelli followed by a splash and slash crash C-section probably saves thousands of lives a year.[/quote]

And the Gaskin maneuver has probably saved just as many women from your charmingly named “splash and slash.”

Look, there are definitely mothers and babies who would not be here (or be doing as well as they are) without medical intervention.  But there are also many who were subjected to excessive interventions, one-size-fits-all approaches, and other attitudes and habits that were not exactly evidence-based, and sometimes downright harmful. [/quote]

Ahh yes, lets trot out Ina May, who is neither a CPM or CNM, who has no medical training, who makes racist comments about black mothers, who advocated for rubbing women's clits in labor to help them relax in older versions of Spiritual Midwifery, who says that toxemia (preeclampsia) can be prevented with a good diet--a fact which has zero evidence supporting it, according to the Preeclampsia Foundation, and who stole a maneuver from traditional midwives in Belize/Guatamala and named it after herself. For every woman who loved her birth guide, is a woman who was left feeling like a failure when her body, was, in fact a lemon and needed help to give birth. Go listen to her Longest Shortest Time interview. [/quote]

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