{"id":18243,"date":"2016-05-16T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T02:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/?p=18243"},"modified":"2022-11-07T12:33:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:33:06","slug":"can-mothers-midwives-work-together-stop-medicalisation-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/can-mothers-midwives-work-together-stop-medicalisation-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can Mothers &#038; Midwives Work Together to Stop the Overmedicalisation of Birth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 7 minute video contains many gems of wisdom!<\/p>\n<p>Professor of Midwifery, Cecily Begley\u00a0(Trinity College, Ireland),\u00a0was interviewed at a recent midwifery conference and she\u00a0discussed the overmedicalisation of birth and ways that <em>mothers and midwives can work together to\u00a0change it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this video you will learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How birth is a normal physiological function of the body which has become overly medicalised<\/li>\n<li>The cascade of intervention &#8211; labour disturbed, synthetic oxytocin, pethadine, epidurals, &#8216;breaking waters&#8217;, forceps or c-section caesarean delivery<\/li>\n<li>Why episiotomies are mostly unwarranted and should be considered an assault on women<\/li>\n<li>How women can access evidence based information regarding birth<\/li>\n<li>The trouble with most traditional forms of antenatal childbirth education classes<\/li>\n<li>Rising rates of intervention<\/li>\n<li>How mothers and midwives need to stand together to halt and change the over-medicalisation of birth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/agr5OWcmeTw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 7 minute video contains many gems of wisdom! 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