Kevin MD: Freebirth Controversy (Crippen alert)

I LOVED the comments at this blog. LOL.
Kevin MD Freebirth Controversy

“Happyman, you are woefully ill-informed. Technology and medicine have NOT been improving outcomes over the “100 years.”

As Dr. Gawande in The New Yorker admits, in 1933 the New York Academy of Medicine published a shocking study of 2,041 maternal deaths in childbirth. At least two-thirds, the investigators found, were preventable. There had been no improvement in death rates for mothers in the preceding two decades; newborn deaths from birth injuries had actually increased. Hospital care brought no advantages; mothers were better off delivering at home.”

And, if you bother to look at the stats, midwife birth for normal pregnancy is SAFER for the mom and just as good for the baby. The most recent, prospective study:

Oh, but Mike doesn’t believe in stats because they’re cliches.

Ignorant jerks, doctors, who are raping American women–and must be stopped!!!

# posted by Anonymous : 7:05 AM”
Applause, Applause, give that person a standing ovation!!!
Jenny Hatch