the birth industry
Nov. 26th, 2009 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unusualmusic_lj_archiveThe Other Side of Choice: Giving Birth in America
The Bellevue Hospital Natural Birth center in Manhattan, one of the few centers that cater not to the wealthy but to poor women, closed this month amid controversy. With the ongoing debate about health care reform and costs, decisions about childbirth are getting lost in the shuffle.
We discuss the closing of the birth center and the medicalization of childbirth with Katherine Abelson, midwife at the Brooklyn Birthing Center, Elan McAllister, doula and president and founder of Choices in Childbirth, and Debra Pascali-Bonaro, doula and director and producer of Orgasmic Birth.
Repost:On Doulas
EDIT: One of the ladies says something rather disturbing, that someone she works with refuses to let a woman choose the medical method of delivering babies. Which is the same type of nonsense that they are complaining about the medical industry in the first place. Luckily everyone else affirms the fact that a woman can choose what she wants. Link to paper on water births
The Bellevue Hospital Natural Birth center in Manhattan, one of the few centers that cater not to the wealthy but to poor women, closed this month amid controversy. With the ongoing debate about health care reform and costs, decisions about childbirth are getting lost in the shuffle.
We discuss the closing of the birth center and the medicalization of childbirth with Katherine Abelson, midwife at the Brooklyn Birthing Center, Elan McAllister, doula and president and founder of Choices in Childbirth, and Debra Pascali-Bonaro, doula and director and producer of Orgasmic Birth.
Repost:On Doulas
EDIT: One of the ladies says something rather disturbing, that someone she works with refuses to let a woman choose the medical method of delivering babies. Which is the same type of nonsense that they are complaining about the medical industry in the first place. Luckily everyone else affirms the fact that a woman can choose what she wants. Link to paper on water births
