Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is not just a nice extra, it is absolutely essential as it makes the woman strong… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share
Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old. — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies.… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
“...the total number of pregnancies in which powerful and dangerous drugs are used is 60 percent, or nearly two-thirds of all births. It is… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital. — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none. — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery. — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
