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birthsMART tm Nurse: “Hi! Welcome back to birthsMART tm.”
birthsMART tm Nurse:”Where cutting edge is our middle name.”
birthsMART tm Nurse:”the doctors and nurses have been attending a continuing education program about episiotomies”
birthsMART tm Nurse:”We’ve learned that episiotomies are unnecessary and lead to deeper lesions and longer tears. The classes are teaching us not to cut.”
birthsMART tm Nurse:”And I’m happy to report that our episiotomy rate has gone from 81% to 52%! It’s just oe of the ways we’re cutting edge.

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Introducing the All-New Prego-Robo 2000! Hospital Edition.

Practice Births on A Robot!

Realistic Sounds!

Programmable Complications!

Nurse says: “A live Robot-Baby Every Time!”
Another Nurse Says:“The Prego-Robo 2000 acts and sounds so realistic! I feel like I’m at a real birth! ANDit has volume controls and an on/off switch when I’m finished with my shift!”

The perfect way to practice delivering babies, the Prego-Robo just lies there and stays out of your way.

Doctor: “I’ve been delivering babies at this Big Corporate Hospital for 17 years, and this is the first natural birth I’ve seen!

This comic is related to this Musing: The Birth Simulator Robot!

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Nowadays the way a woman gives birth is complicated…it involves frantic travel…machinery…blinky lights and beeping noises…as well as a support staff of 4 or 5 people maybe more…and happens in a ’sterile’ environment.

Yet it never occurs to us to ask ourselves, Have our bodies really changed so much?
And do we really need all these complications?

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At the beginning of time the way that women gave birth was simple…for a woman’s first birth she would be quietly and unobtrusively attended by their mother (or a mother-figure)
But for her next births, the woman would prepare a quiet, secluded spot and once labor started she would go there…and birth her babies confidently, alone. And that’s how it was for a long, long time.

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So apparently the Daily Mail thinks it’s appropriate to write ‘by’ when it’s a piecemeal pile of snippets from an interview…
This Just In:

For the record, Michel Odent would like you to know:

About the pages in Daily Mail, first I was not the author of the article. It was written by a journalist after an interview on the phone. Also it is probable that people just read the sensational title. In fact I have never said that men ’should not be at the birth of their child’.

Warmest regards

Michel

Here’s an article that more eloquently defines his position: Is the Participation of the Father at Birth Dangerous?

*phew!* what a relief! Okay back to the scheduled programming (I’m glad I didn’t already do the rest of the series, let’s see where I’m gonna go with it now!)

Thanks everyone for the action alerts!!!!!

Love,
Heather

this musing replaces the musing: Woah! Michel Odent on Men at Births
and is kind of related to this musing:Some Thoughts On Men At Births!