Tag: labor

• Media Literacy and a Short History of the C-Section

  

  What?! An unnamed group invented modern c-sections CENTURIES before anyone else? Wow! Thank gawd for an unverified Facebook post or no one would know the TRUTH!

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 6, 2019

  Birth, Blog

  19th century, Africa, Birth, British Empire, burden of proof, c-section, Cesarean Section, citations, collaboration, critical thinking, Edinburgh Medical Journal, episiotomy, ether, featured, FGM, historical research, infibulation, James Miranda Stuart Barry, Jane Elliot Sewell, labor, liars, media literacy, misinformation, NIH, primary source, Queen Victoria, R. W. Felkin, secondary source, The National Library of Medicine, Uganda

• The Myth of Childbearing Hips | Squished Pt 2 |

  

  These hips don’t lie. They were selected for by evolutionary pressures right along with bigger headed babies. Learn why female humans tend to have wider hips than males and why it has little to do with birth.

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 4, 2018

  Birth, Blog

  appeal to tradition, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedal efficiency, Birth, body, childbearing hips, childbirth, cultural lens, diagrams, dunsworth, Epstien, evolution, fallacy, fetal load, fetopelvic disproportion, hips, hominin, IMMR, labor, locomotor costs, lordosis, Lucy, medical myth, molding skull, mother, natural selection, neonate, obstetrical dilemma, obstetrics, rosenberg, warrener, whitcome