Controversies in Childbirth

Conflict at birth The United States is one of the countries with the highest infant mortality reported in the CIA World Profile (Field Listing, 2008 p.1) compared to other high income countries hiring midwives It is one. Mainstream of low-risk pregnant women. Studies have shown that midwives have few childbirth interventions, low caesarean section rates, and provide more personal care to pregnant women. The current form of obstetric medical treatment in the United States is an insignificant way to accept a non-scientific approach. For regular pregnant women, the usual use of intervention and obstetrics and midwifery midwives models

With regard to pregnancy and childbirth behavior there is no doubt that both nature and conservative controversy are controversial. On the other hand, they are those who agree with Firestone to lay a repressing woman; others have witnessed tremendous power in childbirth behavior - even in the 21st century, it becomes a mother's physical behavior You can try not to make a woman uniquely close to a man. Some people who criticize reproductive assistance technologies such as political power agency rights and in vitro fertilization use technological rhetoric to explain the opposite side of this power, when Firestone's vision is realized someday women Some people are worried that it will become obsolete as in the technology.

Natural birth is periodic medical intervention, especially without anesthesia. Natural birth is in contrast to the medical technology which has recently spread in the industrialized society. Natural birth attempts to minimize medical interventions involving anesthesia and surgical interventions, such as vulva incisions, forceps and abdominal labor, as well as caesarean section. Natural birth may occur during the birth of a hospital where a doctor or midwife was born, during a visit by a midwife, or during a helpless birth. The term "natal birth" was made by the obstetrician Grantly Dick-Read in the book "Natural birth" published in the 1930's, followed by a fearless birth in 1942.

The use of anesthetics at birth also has a complex and controversial history. Ethers and chloroform as anesthetic were developed in the mid-19th century. Their use to alleviate the pain of childbirth, especially at the church, was unpopular at the outset, as it was thought that it would go against God's will. The Church believes that pain from childbirth is a sacred punishment for the sin of Eve in the Garden of Eden. As more and more women, including Queen Victoria who was first administered chloroform for the birth of Prince Leopold in 1853, more and more women began exploring this practice, so gradually accepting the use of anesthetics for pain relief It was done.