You can have the best of science, compassion and control with your birth. You just have to know where to find it. Ann does a great job of showing what that looks like.
as a Black woman in my late 60s, this is all so difficult to read!
Of course Midwives are better than doctors; they always have been, and they probably always will be.
unfortunately, the American worldview now sees ALL parts of women's reproductive lives as illness: from menarche and menstruation through that new "diagnostic category" of perimenopause, through childbirth and menopause.
AmeriKKKa's fascination/revulsion with the female pudenda is heartbreaking! When that pudenda happens to be dark chocolate or cinamon brown, lives get even harder/ outcomes less encouraging/ problem stories most terrible:
The unbelieveable disregard we show for the experience of Black women in particular during birth in the US is doubly depressing for me: not only that we ignore it, but that the whole world sees we don't care. Our own US statistics* show Black women giving birth in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Albamama—and now Tennessee, the new 'leader' in US maternal deaths—would be safer birthing in Libya or Iraq. This isn't civilization; it's third world santioned slaughter. *https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/maternal-mortality-ratio/country-comparison/
as a Black woman in my late 60s, this is all so difficult to read!
Of course Midwives are better than doctors; they always have been, and they probably always will be.
unfortunately, the American worldview now sees ALL parts of women's reproductive lives as illness: from menarche and menstruation through that new "diagnostic category" of perimenopause, through childbirth and menopause.
AmeriKKKa's fascination/revulsion with the female pudenda is heartbreaking! When that pudenda happens to be dark chocolate or cinamon brown, lives get even harder/ outcomes less encouraging/ problem stories most terrible:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tSKe6gnimDcRvxuv7p8gSZ2eN3qjDszr/view
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FACTS OF ABOVE KKKatastrophe:
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/parents-baby-decapitated-during-childbirth-awarded-225-million-settlement/D4AR5Q2ZSJGBLEKZS4FP2EXSY4/
The unbelieveable disregard we show for the experience of Black women in particular during birth in the US is doubly depressing for me: not only that we ignore it, but that the whole world sees we don't care. Our own US statistics* show Black women giving birth in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Albamama—and now Tennessee, the new 'leader' in US maternal deaths—would be safer birthing in Libya or Iraq. This isn't civilization; it's third world santioned slaughter. *https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/maternal-mortality-ratio/country-comparison/