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Post-partum depression after childbirth has always been a problem in the United States, but has only recently been acknowledged as a valid disorder affecting over 800,000 women annually. However, are drugs the answer? Shouldn't we be investigating the real cause of this disquietude rather than masking the symptoms with mood altering substances?
What responsibility should doctors, nurses, and midwives in the medical system assume for the depression suffered by women, for our rampant child abuse, and for the murders of children by their own mothers and fathers?
This is the question asked by the author of this book. After suffering from and being hospitalized for Post-Partum Depression in the 1960's, she began the search for answers and in the process became a midwife. To date, she has delivered over 2700 babies at home and in the process discovered what she considers the answer to preventing PPD, and perhaps preventing much of the abuse and murder now being suffered by our children.
During her 39 years as a midwife, she has learned that many of the rules established by conventional doctors concerning labor and birth are actually false and tend to hold captive the women in their care, leading to many unnecessary epidurals and cesareans. Statistics show that children born by cesarean, or who are born prematurely, are actually more often abused than children born vaginally without drugs.
Her intent in writing this book is to educate women and in the process to change maternity care in U.S.hospitals into a more user friendly place where imprinting and bonding at birth are given top priority over all other considerations.
What responsibility should doctors, nurses, and midwives in the medical system assume for the depression suffered by women, for our rampant child abuse, and for the murders of children by their own mothers and fathers?
This is the question asked by the author of this book. After suffering from and being hospitalized for Post-Partum Depression in the 1960's, she began the search for answers and in the process became a midwife. To date, she has delivered over 2700 babies at home and in the process discovered what she considers the answer to preventing PPD, and perhaps preventing much of the abuse and murder now being suffered by our children.
During her 39 years as a midwife, she has learned that many of the rules established by conventional doctors concerning labor and birth are actually false and tend to hold captive the women in their care, leading to many unnecessary epidurals and cesareans. Statistics show that children born by cesarean, or who are born prematurely, are actually more often abused than children born vaginally without drugs.
Her intent in writing this book is to educate women and in the process to change maternity care in U.S.hospitals into a more user friendly place where imprinting and bonding at birth are given top priority over all other considerations.
