The Birth Babe

Some don’t have the greatest backing via studies, but if one study says it helps & another says it didn’t help(& there was no one harmed)- I say “try it!” Placebo is an actual thing! You’re more likely to tear with epidural... “data from 22 studies with a total of 651,934 subjects. Its conclusion was that those with epidural anesthesia had a 1.95 times greater risk of perineal tearing than those who did not.” 😬

“Today, a person is 14 times more likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term than by having an abortion”

“Successful racist and misogynistic smear campaigns, cleverly designed for political persuasion and to achieve legal reform, described Black midwives as unhygienic, barbarous, ineffective, non-scientific, dangerous, and unprofessional. “

“Gynecologists pushed women out of the field of reproductive health by lobbying state legislatures to ban midwifery and prohibit abortions. Doing so not only undercut women’s reproductive health, but also drove qualified Black women out of medical services.”

“The U.S. leads the developed world in maternal and infant mortality. The U.S. ranks around 50th in the world for maternal safety. Nationally, for Black women, the maternal death rate is nearly four times that of white women, and 10 to 17 times worse in some states.”