Archive for the ‘Medicalization of Childbirth’ Category
On Breastfeeding and more…..
Posted by: vsakotai on: November 5, 2008
Just yesterday, I got this email form one of my recent class participants. This mom-to-be has just finished her sessions, and in the meantime, visited her friend who has recently given birth in one of Hyderabad’s “super-specialty” hospitals. I am quoting her verbatim (with her permission) below:
Dear Dr,
One of my friends recently delivered at xxxxxx [...]
“Childbirth is traumatic – our doctors can help make it otherwise”
Posted by: vsakotai on: October 7, 2008
The other day I chanced upon a website promoting a “5-star” birthing center. The website proclaimed that “The process of childbirth is traumatic both for mother and child”. I was stunned – is childbirth really a traumatic process? It was certainly not for me, and for hundreds of other women I know and for thousands [...]
