Women's Studies 2163A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter coursebook: Lithotomy Position, George Engelmann, Episiotomy

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2163A/B
• Professor: Samantha Brennan

Document Summary

Women studies 2163 lecture 2 reading birth day by mark sloan. Chapter 1 - twenty babies: an unexpectedly quick introduction to vaginal birth. The author who was in her 3rd year of medical school had to deliver babies without ever having any experience how to. She had read half a chapter the night before. She had worked in a veteran"s hospital across the street and had solely worked with men. For female gorilla, when she gives birth she simply ambles off to edge of group and has her baby in a half hour or so with few signs of discomfort. Compares human birth to olympic bobsled run; Mother does the pushing and fetus steers the course. In rst stage, the cervix along with vagina thins and dilates. In second stage it is the expulsion of the fetus out of vagina. The third stage is the delivery of the placenta.