The Change in Obstetric Care in the United States :: Evolution Childbirth America

Imagine for a moment a small room with pale green walls, and tone of latex and disinfectant. The sharp light of fluorescent bulbs gives the space a sharp unnatural glow. A fair sex is lying on a alloy bed covered by a flimsy sheet, legs uncomfortably splayed open, feet in stirrups. A doctor and an entourage of residents enter the room in sportsmanlike coats. The doctor snaps on a pair of latex gloves, looks and feels between the womans legs, announces everything is moving right on schedule, and hurries out the door, on to another(prenominal) patient. The woman is left wondering, among other things, what on schedule means.It doesnt vigorous very pleasant, but for years this was what it was like to give birth in an Ameri support hospital. And, for many women, it is still true today. Just add to the point a fetal monitor to measure the babys snapper rate, an intravenous drip into the mothers arm, an ultrasound machine, a catheter to bring in the mothers urine, surgical instrume nts for performing an episiotomy before delivery (an division made to widen the vaginal opening), and various other technological devices, secure in case. While they can be helpful in real situations, such as high-risk births, these things can impede the natural appendage of labor.In this paper, I will examine three distinct stages of obstetrical care in the United States. By looking at the stages, you can see the evolution of childbirth in our country as it true from a female- to a male- dominated field, and how it is now beginning to get away away from whatsoever of the traditional medical methods that have been used for over 50 years. However, this break is not complete. Even with todays woman having more spot than ever in her decision making, we as Americans still cant seem to get away from the technology used in childbirth, until now though much of it is unnecessary and can sometimes even be detrimental. For the past 100 years, our view of pregnancy and childbirth has evolved into seeing it as a condition or sickness that needs to be controlled and inured by modern medicine.The first stage of OB care took speckle before and during the 19th century. In that time, obstetrics was a field dominated by women, al approximately entirely midwives. Almost all physicians were male, but for the most part, obstetrics was not studied in medical school.