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Love that birth physiology: even more! - Maternity & Midwifery Forum
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Love that birth physiology: even more!

Do we know enough? That is really the question.

“We are not really trained that well in anatomy and physiology as far as birth is concerned. That gap in our knowledge really hinders us”.
“Bringing it down to three major disruptions, the cause of labour dystocia are fear, medicalisation and biomechanical issues”.
“Fear of course is going to affect the neurohormonal exquisite orchestra or hormones and medicalisation… has a whole gamut of interference in the process and many of those interventions are unnecessary”.

 

Watch Molly O’Brien’s full presentation on Love that birth physiology: even more! Part 2 here: