In Your Own Time: How western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop Wickham Sara
In Your Own Time: How western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop Wickham Sara Pregnant women and maternity services are facing an induction epidemic. Women are deemed to…
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In Your Own Time: How western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop Wickham Sara
Pregnant women and maternity services are facing an induction epidemic. Women are deemed to be too large and too old, while babies are estimated to be too big and too overdue. As medical guidelines include more "at risk" categories, women and our already overwhelmed and under resourced maternity systems are increasingly pressured to induce birth before labour begins spontaneously.
Worldwide, this trend is growing at an alarming rate. But is 'better-out-than-in' really a safer option than waiting to birth in your own time?Staggeringly, over a third of all pregnant women have their labour medically induced, and this is accompanied by a tsunami of avoidable medical interventions. This is despite both a lack of evidence demonstrating its benefits and a wealth of evidence indicating the significant short- and long-term negative impacts of induction on the health and wellbeing of mothers