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The over-medicalisation of childbirth
Manage episode 470079961 series 3620721
🕰️ This episode was recorded in 2024. My wife was pregnant at the time.
Giving birth has become highly lucrative for the medical industry at the expense of the mother and child.
Stuart Fischbein (Dr Stu) runs a website and podcast called Birthing Instincts. More specifically, he is an OBGYN (Obstetrician-Gynaecologist) with over 40 years of experience who specialises in breech and twin births and supports VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarean).
In other words, he has delivered a lot of babies in both hospitals and homes, promoting the latter due to it being safer and healthier.
As Dr Stu notes, the establishment has, over the last century or so, duped women into believing that childbirth is a medical condition needing clinical intervention.
72 episodes
Manage episode 470079961 series 3620721
🕰️ This episode was recorded in 2024. My wife was pregnant at the time.
Giving birth has become highly lucrative for the medical industry at the expense of the mother and child.
Stuart Fischbein (Dr Stu) runs a website and podcast called Birthing Instincts. More specifically, he is an OBGYN (Obstetrician-Gynaecologist) with over 40 years of experience who specialises in breech and twin births and supports VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarean).
In other words, he has delivered a lot of babies in both hospitals and homes, promoting the latter due to it being safer and healthier.
As Dr Stu notes, the establishment has, over the last century or so, duped women into believing that childbirth is a medical condition needing clinical intervention.
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