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Not All Vaginal Birth is ‘Natural Childbirth’

April 6, 2016 by Diane Speier 10 Comments

I recently came across a post on Facebook that included a clip of a news program talking about birth in which instrumental deliveries were described as ‘natural childbirth’. There seems to be some confusion as to what natural childbirth is, and anything that is not a cesarean section is now labeled natural childbirth. And this is not new. Back in 1986, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal that made the same error. A colleague and Continue Reading …

Filed Under: blog, Pregnancy and Birth Tagged With: cascade of interventions, natural childbirth, vaginal birth

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