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Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities
by Henci Goer, award-winning medical writer and internationally known speaker, is the author of The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth. Her previous book, Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities is a highly-acclaimed resource for childbirth professionals, and she is an acknowledged expert on evidence-based maternity care.
http://www.hencigoer.com/obmyth/index.html |
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Birth Misconceptions: Myth and Fact
Myths and facts about birth outcomes. About the medicalization of birth/homebirth and hospital birth/ facts about medical interventions etc.
http://www.birthingthefuture.com/AllAboutBirth/birthMythFact.php |
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Electronic Fetal Monitoring
The routine use of electronic fetal heart monitoring (EFM) in American obstetrics is an unscientific practice that increases cesarian section without improving outcomes. The overuse of EFM must be challenged as iatrogenic.
http://www.changesurfer.com/Hlth/EFM.html |
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Epidural's :Effects on Babies
researchers discovered that the risk of drug addiction was related to the hospital in which the babies were born. The likelihood of a child developing drug addiction later in life depended on the labor ward policies of the hospital the mother chose for the birth
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0838/is_2000_March-April/ai_60072815 |
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Epidurals : What No One Tells You about
Ever since regional anesthesia was introduced into obstetrics in the 1940s it has been touted as "safe and effective" by those who administered it. With use, however, side effects became apparent. Also, increased use of labor anesthesia provides employment to obstetric anesthesiologists. Epidurals can cause side effects in mother and baby. With an epidural, labor is more likely to slow down, and to require pitocin, forceps or vacuum extraction, or cesarean delivery.......
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0838/is_2000_March-April/ai_60072813 |
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Episiotomy: Ritual Genital Mutilation in Western Obstetrics
Several articles
http://www.changesurfer.com/Hlth/episiotomy.html |
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Problems with Ultrasound
several articles
http://health.consumercide.com/ultrasound01.html |
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THE MYTH OF PRENATAL CARE
Prenatal care in America does not work and much of it lacks a solid scientific basis, says Dr. Thomas H. Strong, Jr., author of the book "Expecting Trouble: The Myth of Prenatal Care in America"
http://www.nyu.edu/publicaffairs/newsreleases/b_EXPEC1.shtml |
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The Hidden Risks of Epidurals
By Sarah J. Buckley
http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregnancy_birth/birth_preparation/hidden-risks-epidurals.html |
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The Psychological Effects of Obstetrical Interventions
Book Review of Birth Trauma (by Dr. William R. Emerson)
http://primal-page.com/emer1.htm |
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The Tragedy of Routine Episiotomy
Like any surgical procedure, episiotomy carries a number of risks: excessive blood loss, haematoma formation, and infection. . . . There is no evidence . . . that routine episiotomy reduces the risk of severe perineal trauma, improves perineal healing, prevents fetal trauma or reduces the risk of urinary stress incontinence (Sleep, Roberts, and Chalmers 1989). Also see: http://www.geocities.com/virtualbirth/archives/perinealProtection.html
http://www.gentlebirth.org/nwnm.org/Tragedy_Routine_Episiotomy.htm |
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Ultrasound - More powerful, more dangerous, more unethical
By Jean Robinson: When Professor Stuart Campbell says he is worried about the way ultrasound is being used on unborn children we should listen..
http://www.aims.org.uk/Journal/Vol11No4/ultra2.htm |
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Ultrasound : More Harm Than Good?
article by Marsden Wagner that illustrates how prenatal ultrasound scanning may lead to the very condition, IUGR, that it has for so long claimed to be effective in detecting, despite it's wide-spread routine use.
http://www.acegraphics.com.au/articles/wagner02.html |
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Ultrasound Scans Linked to Brain Damage in Babies
Evidence suggesting that ultrasound scans on pregnant women cause brain damage in their unborn babies has been uncovered by scientists.
http://www.mercola.com/2001/dec/19/ultrasound.htm |
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Ultrasound: Weighing the Propaganda Against the Facts
by Beverley Lawrence Beech
http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/ultrasound.asp?q=michelandodent |
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VBAC and Misoprostol (Cytotec)
with links to other articles talking about the risks for uterine rupture when using this inducing drug
http://www.homebirth.org.uk/misoprostol.htm |
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