Anyone working to improve the childbearing experience and help women avoid unnecessary intervention has encountered numerous obstetric myths or ... read full description
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Mar 04, 2009
Bianca
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Please, please, for the love of birth, please come out with an update for this book. It is an invaluable resource.
May 20, 2009
Deena
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If more OBs would practice according to the evidence-based research, health care costs would be much less and our infant AND maternal mortality rates would drop.
Nov 05, 2008
Jenni
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I wanted a home birth, my husband thought it'd safer in a hospital -- until we read this. It's a clear, readable presentation of the gap between what research shows is best for mother and baby and the typical medical treatment of labor and birth. (We decided on a birth center).
Apr 25, 2008
Sharon
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What can I say... We (healthcare providers) all know we should be using research based practice. But so much of the time we let the social expections and the old myths about childbirth guide us instead. I would read an updated version of this book today.
Jun 20, 2008
Travis
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This book is amazingly well reseached and anyone who is concerned with how the medical system 'manages' birth or is thinking about birth in a hospial with some concern should read it. It's expensive, but worth every penny.
Dec 04, 2009
Heather
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I might like to buy this someday.
I didn't realize how old it was before I interlibrary-loaned it. It's quite interesting, but funny to read about maternity care research from the 80s.
I didn't realize how old it was before I interlibrary-loaned it. It's quite interesting, but funny to read about maternity care research from the 80s.
Feb 17, 2008
Deena
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Nov 04, 2008
Leah
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Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature by Henci Goer (1995)
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