I felt like I had failed. But I also felt mad at Ina May. And the whole natural birth industry, actually. For making me believe that natural birth was not only possible, but that it had the potential to be an ecstatic experience.
In this episode, I tell Ina May how I felt betrayed by her. And her answer is truly stunning. If you wound up feeling like I did after having a baby, Ina May wants to hear from you.
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Back to search results. The incident fueled her determination to find a saner way to give birth. A few years later, during a five-month long speaking tour with her husband, Stephen Gaskin, and more than two hundred young idealists, she witnessed her first birth, one of many that would occur during the trip. Because many of the women were without health insurance or money to pay for a doctor, Gaskin often assisted in births by default, eventually aided by the instruction and support of a sympathetic obstetrician.
The Farm Midwifery Center had low intervention and mortality rates despite caring for women with complicated births. In , Gaskin married Stephen and took his last name, after divorcing Kelley some time before. Together, they had three children named Eva, Samuel, and Paul. Once Gaskin returned to the Farm, she began to use the technique from Guatemala successfully.
She taught the technique to others as well as published various articles about her findings. In the US, that technique became known as the Gaskin maneuver, or the all-fours maneuver. It is a technique where the laboring woman kneels down onto her hands and knees. The Gaskin maneuver is one of the first obstetrical procedures to be named after a midwife.
The use of the technique among women in both hospital and home births has resulted in decreased rates of protracted labors, which are abnormally slow labors, as well as a decreased number of routine episiotomies, and better survival rates in breech and twin births.
In , Gaskin and other midwives founded a professional membership organization called Midwives Alliance of North America, or MANA, with focuses on furthering the practice of midwifery by increasing survival rates for women and infants.
Gaskin served as president of MANA from to Prior to the formation of those groups, there was not a similar certification available for midwives in the US.
The certification process expanded the legal practice of midwifery in twenty-seven states by granting the title of certified professional midwife, or CPM, based on competency and not requiring a nursing degree. Gaskin also published a quarterly Birth Gazette for twenty-two years, which covered health care, childbirth, and midwifery issues.
She created the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project, a project focused on members making quilts made up of patches with the names of women who died in childbirth or pregnancy -related causes in the US since , highlighting the national statistics of maternal deaths and honoring the women who died.
In , she was awarded the ASPO Lamaze Irwin Chabon Award from Lamaze International, an organization which provides information to families to promote safe and healthy pregnancies and births.
In , Gaskin was one of four people to co-win the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, where she was recognized for her work in teaching and advocating woman-centered childbirth methods that promote maternal and child health. As of , Gaskin lives at the Farm in Summertown, Tennessee, and frequently travels to promote low-intervention methods that made the Farm Midwifery Center successful to midwives and physicians around the world. As of , Gaskin still acts as a midwife to local women, including those who still live at the Farm, as well as women from around the world who come to the Farm Midwifery Center to deliver.
Keywords: Gaskin maneuver. Sources "About Lamaze. Accessed October 6, March 29, Bruner, Joseph P. Drummond, Anna L. Meenan, and Ina May Gaskin. July 05, Declercq, Eugene, and Naomi E. September 15,
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