scholarly journals The Role of Oxytocin in Primary Cesarean Birth Among Low‐Risk Women

Author(s):  
Rebecca R. S. Clark ◽  
Nicole Warren ◽  
Kenneth M. Shermock ◽  
Nancy Perrin ◽  
Eileen Lake ◽  
...  
2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Tanya N. Cook ◽  

Near ubiquitous use of electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) during low-risk childbirth constrains both maternal agency and maternal autonomy. An analysis of interdisciplinary literature about EFM reveals that its use cannot be understood apart from broader norms and values that have significant implications for the agency and autonomy of laboring women. Overreliance on EFM use for low-risk women threatens their autonomy in several ways: by privileging the status of the fetal patient, by delegitimizing women’s embodied experience of childbirth, and by constructing EFM data as objective science despite evidence to the contrary. In birth situations defined as high-risk, however, EFM may lead to greater maternal agency by enabling women to choose vaginal over cesarean birth. Viewing doctor-patient interactions as a co-construction in the context of an understanding that sees EFM as a social as well as technological construction may improve autonomy in childbirth.


2016 ◽  
Vol 215 (3) ◽  
pp. B2-B7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer McIntosh ◽  
Helen Feltovich ◽  
Vincenzo Berghella ◽  
Tracy Manuck

Birth ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S. Fore ◽  
Amanda A. Allshouse ◽  
Nicole S. Carlson ◽  
K. Joseph Hurt

2021 ◽  
Vol 224 (2) ◽  
pp. S225-S226
Author(s):  
Kathleen Drexler ◽  
Lindsay Cheu ◽  
Emily Donelan ◽  
Michelle Kominiarek

2001 ◽  
Vol 184 (4) ◽  
pp. 652-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.D. Iams ◽  
R.L. Goldenberg ◽  
B.M. Mercer ◽  
A.H. Moawad ◽  
P.J. Meis ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. S13-S14
Author(s):  
N Zamir ◽  
J Shavadia ◽  
N Miranda ◽  
K Coverett ◽  
D Parekh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Risk ◽  

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