A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and lose; in the second you don't fight because you know you can't win. However, in… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found that when doctors genuinely encouraged women to have VBACs, most of them did, and when they… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal. — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital births introduces… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
Labor will hurt. Probably a lot. But whether this is negative is another matter... A laboring woman can be in a great deal of… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain. — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
“The second reason caregivers may be silent about the dark side of epidurals is that they generate big bucks for anesthesiologists and hospitals. Epidural… — Henci Goer Copy Share Image
