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If you are committed to creating positive social change, think back to the vision that you first had when you entered your career. HOT OFF THE PRESS ORDER FOR CHRISTMAS FOR YOUR FAVOURITE MIDWIFE, AT REDUCED COST for pre-ordering, BIRTHING MODELS ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRONTIER explains how to help you rekindle that vision if you think you have lost it, or to strengthen your resolve.
It gives a comprehensive history of how childbirth moved from an un-enfranchised social movement in the 1970s to using the platform of Human Rights, starting in particular in 2009 to the present DAY, to boldly create new avenues to help women get what they want.
After the history, the text presents the successes of individuals and dynamic communities around the world that are rejecting dysfunctional health care systems that are destroying cultures and environments, and replacing them with safer, more appropriate models of care through radical change. The book has been 10 years in the making.
It introduces several models--in the U.S., China, at the West Bank, in Afghanistan, Guatemala and Africa. It has a chapter on how the 3 central places bringing back vaginal breech birth--Frankfurt, Ottawa, and Newcastle/Sydney Australia--have managed to do it with good outcomes. Using cost analysis of birth settings in the United States, it presents how the human right to choice of birth place has a decided economic advantage that states should look to in this time of COVID-19. (It provides a history of how even ACOG has moved on the subject of home birth by analyzing their home birth statements since 1970.)
The book begins with the premise that all colonialists’ dreams were, like the American Dream, unfortunately founded on nefarious systemic human rights’ abuses of invaded populations and the major movements over the last 70 years have all been an answer to the original and still-current colonial human rights’ violations around the world.They are all dismantling the colonialists’ dreams. Here are four of the six of the examples:
1. Genocide, answered by The indigenous rights’ (Standing Rock, Idle No More) and the anti-eugenics movementsconcerned about systematic extermination or sterilization of people of certain races or with disabilities;
2. Slavery, responded to via the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, the civil rights movement in the US, and Black Lives Matter;
3. Patriarchy, challenged by the feminist, LGBTQAI+, #Me Too rights in reproductive issues, and humanization of childbirth movements;
6. Environmental and non-human species devastation:The “green” and climate disruption movements.
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Betty-Anne Daviss, RM, MA
613 894 2229
Bringing Back Vaginal Breech Birth
For breech videos, articles, and information, go to bringing back vaginal breech birth.
Birth Models That Work
Edited by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Lesley Barclay, Betty-Anne Daviss,
and Jan Tritten
For years birth activists have been saying it: “that doesn’t work, it just doesn’t work.” By “doesn’t work,” they mean the contemporary obstetrical treatment of birth around the world. It doesn’t work. Yes, babies get born and lives that could have been lost get saved through modern obstetrics, but the price in both money and collateral damage to mother and baby is increasingly high. This price shouldn’t have to be paid, because it is based on misinformation and misunderstanding of the normal physiology of birth and how to best support it. It comes from a system that seeks to avoid mortality through the excess application of interventions while failing to recognize that those very interventions when overused cause unnecessary morbidity – and increasingly, even mortality itself –to the mother or baby. Intervention is now associated with increased maternal and perinatal mortality figures due in part to the excess use of cesarean section in many countries; the increased rate of cesareans has become the unwitting accomplice to the mortality this operation is designed to avoid (see below)
As the models described in this volume demonstrate, it is not necessary to “trade off” the morbidity associated with interventions for avoidance mortality – decreasing intervention and increasing support of normal physiological birth both serve to avoid mortality. Indeed, as we will show in these pages, some low-intervention models of birth can demonstrate lower morbidity and equivalent (or lower) mortality than high-intervention tertiary care.
Birth Models That Work…
…First and foremost, models that work do not cause unnecessary harm to mothers and babies. Each chapter presents a case study of one model that works and describes the impetus for this model’s development, the process through which it was developed, its underlying philosophy, and its specific characteristics…
The models include:
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Large-scale national systems (the Netherlands, New Zealand, Ontario, Samoa(where social and professional midwives work together)
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Local Models in Developed nations e.g. The Albany Midwifery Practice (Britain), a birth centre in England, Japan, Australia, New Mexico…
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Local Models in Developing Nations (traditional, professional, and obstetrics working together…
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Making Models Work
e.g. Centering Pregnancy@ Group Prenatal Care,
Humanizing Childbirth in Brazil
Click here for more information and to purchase the book
Betty-Anne and Robbie are presently working on the second volume, which will have chapters on Afghanistan, Guatemala, Uganda, the Canadian North, potentially Russia, China, the model of unassisted birth in Mexico, new models for breech and VBAC birth, and promising collaboration models between physicians and midwives in North America.
Home Birth and Home Birth Safety Research
At Understanding Birth Better, we undertake original research on home birth and home birth safety.
We locate, evaluate and synthesize epidemiologic research evidence from the scientific medical literature to better understand the risks and benefits of a low-intervention approach to birth, as provided primarily by midwives to low-risk pregnant women during pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
We produce evidence regarding the safety of home birth and make it available for the benefit of mothers, midwives, legislators and other groups.
Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America
Other Work
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