Word: childbirth
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...pattern is established in childbirth and breastfeeding that can be hard to break, observes Greg Allen, author of the blog Daddytypes. The mother becomes the expert first, then cringes as she watches her husband awkwardly stumble through his learning curve. As she hears the cries of her fragile infant, she can't help but interrupt...
...protection could come at a moral cost: the technical term is "disinhibition, which the CDC defines as "an increase in unsafe behaviors in response to perceptions of safety caused by introduction of a preventive or therapeutic intervention." (Once upon a time the concern was raised about introducing anesthesia during childbirth, or using penicillin to treat syphilis, as spurring more sexual activity; more recently, the argument is made about needle exchange and condom distribution...
That was an extreme lesson in the value of experience; no one recommends seeking out doctors who are brand new on the job, and doctors admit to scheduling elective surgery--even planning childbirth--around the intern calendar. This is not paranoia: the average major teaching hospital typically sees a 4% jump in its risk-adjusted mortality rate in the summer, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. But there is a larger issue that doctors argue about: which matters more, information or experience? Broadly speaking, a younger doctor is likely to have been trained in the newest surgical procedures...
...this reasonable agenda is lost in the propaganda of lady-crazies—which tells women that liberation revolves around sex, that childbirth is best reserved for test tubes, and that the key to being successful women is to bash men—Harvard will suffer a great embarrassment...
...Alexander ’08, Sachi A. Ezura ’08, and Lina Tetelbaum ’07 are left jumping and shouting “cunt” alone. Likewise, the finale, “I Was There in the Room,” a piece on childbirth, becomes more about clumsy staging than heartfelt sentiment...