Interview w/ Ina May About the Medicalization of Birth

The astonishing thing to me is that we have come to believe that our human bodies are not as well designed for birth as other mammals’ are. Really it’s our brains that can pose problems: we alone among mammals have the ability to scare and confuse ourselves about birth.”

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    I recall reading somewhere that it is better/easier on the body to give birth in a squatting sort of position, and that...
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    Good, good stuff.
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