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Is childbirth education important? Do all the programs aim to achieve the same thing and, most importantly, do they?
We've come a long way from the first documented successful caesarean. In 1500, Swiss farmer Jacob Nufer operated on his wife after a labour of several days. She went on to have five more vaginal births.
As more and more babies are delivered by cesarean section, we need to start investigating what that means for their long-term health.
Humans have always required some form of extra help being born. But how much help is truly necessary – and how much is too much.
Medical intervention in birth is normalised by both maternity care providers and all kinds of media. Our research shows information about the benefits of natural birth help women make better choices.
Last month I attended a protest in London over an incident on the other side of the world. It concerned a woman named Adelir Carmen Lemos de Góes, who was forced to have a caesarean section in Torres…
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Professor of Midwifery and Higher Degree Director, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Public Health, Queensland University of Technology
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Medical Anthropology PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh
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PhD candidate, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School
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Professor of Health Policy and Population Health, New York University
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Phd Candidate, Western Sydney University
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Research Fellow University of Notre Dame Australia; Adjunct Fellow (National Institute of Complementary Medicine), Western Sydney University, University of Notre Dame Australia
