Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical
attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from
colonial times to the present.
Judith Walzer Leavitt's study focuses on the traditional
woman-centered home-birthing practices, their replacement by male
doctors, and the movement from the home to the hospital. She
explains that childbearing women and their physicians gradually
changed birth places because they believed the increased
medicalization would make giving birth safer and more comfortable.
Ironically, because of infection, infant and maternal mortality did
not immediately decline. She concludes that birthing women held
considerable power in determining labor and delivery events as long
as childbirth remained in the home. The move to the hospital in the
twentieth century gave the medical profession the upper hand.
Leavitt also discusses recent events in American obstetrics that
illustrate how women have attempted to retrieve some of the
traditional women--and family--centered aspects of childbirth.
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