Reclaiming birth - a brief history of childbirth options

Cassandra Brooks interviews nurses at a hospital and a community birthing center, as well as an expectant mother, about the childbirth choices available to women today.

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Education

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• birth
• birthing center
• homebirth
• midwife
• hospital
• Cassandra Brooks

[voxmel]

After reading the book "Immaculate Deception" by Suzanne Arms when I was 10 eyars old, I knew that I never wanted to have a baby in a hospital. I'm so thankful that my mother had me at home in 1966.

[fantastikateful]

@aowynne I think that the person who made this video was referring to the fact that midwives often took on 'nurse' duties in their communities as well. a misuse of the term for sure but It's not an inaccurate description.

[aowynne]

"Once upon a time women primarily gave birth in their homes with nurse midwives..."

Nurse midwives didn't exist until the 1920s. In the whole rest of the history of humanity prior to that, women primarily gave birth in their homes with midwives, as is still the case today. Most nurse midwives work in hospitals or birth centers.

[rtirakayos]

having oxygen is worthless if the baby isn't breathing....