Comments on: Looking at the History of Childbirth http://curiouslyawesome.com/2009/03/07/looking-at-the-history-of-childbirth/ Just a Curious Mom Blogging About How to be Awesome! Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:46:08 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Cindy http://curiouslyawesome.com/2009/03/07/looking-at-the-history-of-childbirth/comment-page-1/#comment-497 Cindy Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:57:19 +0000 http://curiouslyawesome.com/?p=568#comment-497 Years ago, I read a fascinating book called The American Way of Birth by Jessica Mitford. It's an eye-opening look at the history of childbirth and how drastically things have changed in the last couple hundred years. Did you know that child bed fever was actually caused because physicians would perform autopsies in the morgue and then go upstairs and perform cervical checks on laboring mothers...without washing their hands? Great book if you can get your hands on it. <em>Cindy's last blog post..<a href='http://www.fencedinfamily.com/blog/?p=842' rel="nofollow">Review: Bible Story Songs CD</a></em> Years ago, I read a fascinating book called The American Way of Birth by Jessica Mitford. It’s an eye-opening look at the history of childbirth and how drastically things have changed in the last couple hundred years. Did you know that child bed fever was actually caused because physicians would perform autopsies in the morgue and then go upstairs and perform cervical checks on laboring mothers…without washing their hands? Great book if you can get your hands on it.

Cindy’s last blog post..Review: Bible Story Songs CD

]]> By: Jan from BetterSpines http://curiouslyawesome.com/2009/03/07/looking-at-the-history-of-childbirth/comment-page-1/#comment-496 Jan from BetterSpines Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:47:34 +0000 http://curiouslyawesome.com/?p=568#comment-496 Yes, women died of puerperal fever. But not from childbirth itself unless it was a really complicated one such as a breech birth. But look at the thousands of years of the proper squatting position, which assists the delivery process, versus the recent recumbent position which only assists the assistants. And the massive increase in Caesarian sections, again, in many cases without proper medical necessity. Go with the way the body was designed, and there will be very few complications. <em>Jan from BetterSpines's last blog post..<a href='http://betterspines.com/blog/2009/03/05/back-care-myths-iii-exercise-through-the-pain/' rel="nofollow">Back Care Myths III - Exercise through the pain</a></em> Yes, women died of puerperal fever. But not from childbirth itself unless it was a really complicated one such as a breech birth. But look at the thousands of years of the proper squatting position, which assists the delivery process, versus the recent recumbent position which only assists the assistants. And the massive increase in Caesarian sections, again, in many cases without proper medical necessity. Go with the way the body was designed, and there will be very few complications.

Jan from BetterSpines’s last blog post..Back Care Myths III – Exercise through the pain

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