WOMENSTD 324 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 3: Certified Nurse Midwife, Orthodox Judaism, Prenatal Diagnosis
12 Apr 2016
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Women are trying to take control over their bodies from biomedicine and tradiional hospital birth: doing so by having home births yet sill having access to help if necessary. According to a 1995 study, a home-birthing woman is more likely to be older, to be having a second or subsequent child, and to have less formal educaion. She is more likely to be atended during childbirth by someone other than a physician or nurse-midwife. For example, by a direct-entry midwife or her husband or friend. Finally, the health of her baby at birth is likely to be beter than that of the average baby born in the. Olivia characterized home birth as a path to empowerment and improved self-esteem. While janet emphasized how home birth allowed her to follow god"s plan for the hierarchical order of husband, wife, and then baby.
