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...review committee at Harvard-affiliated Brigham & Women's Hospital (BWH), where Winig practices, has, however, found all the despaired Cesarean section operations to be" medically appropriate...
After discussing the grievance--which charges that Dr. Paul I Winig '62, one of UHS's two gynecologists, performed too many Cesarean section operations over a five month period--the Joint Committee "really felt things were on the right course." Denterlein added...
...Physicians, has opposed most midwifery for a variety of reasons. Among them: the difficulty in regulating midwife procedures, the belief that women get better basic care in hospitals and the fact that many deliveries may require aid that few midwives can provide in the home. Examples: anesthesia; delivery by cesarean section; forceps delivery; episiotomy, a surgical procedure in which an incision is made from the vulva through the perineum to widen the birth canal...
...overworked hospital staff and subject to perhaps unnecessary procedures. Says a registered nurse and lay midwife in California: "Just in case the woman tears, the hospital does an episiotomy; just in case she bleeds, they give her an intravenous solution during labor; just in case she may need a cesarean, they don't feed her." Another frequent complaint concerns the mother's position during labor. In hospitals, the complaint runs, women are strapped to delivery tables, though some women who have practiced natural childbirth find that other positions can be as effective and more comfortable...
...coach of Lady Helen Graham, which followed the royal conveyance. Asserting that 37-year-old Queen Elizabeth "could still have another child" who if male would be Prince of Wales, United Press disclosed for the first time last week these little-known facts thus: "Princess Elizabeth was a Cesarean baby, and Margaret Rose was premature, her mother being scientifically starved for several months beforehand to facilitate the birth...