"Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital births introduces risks or the home environment promotes problem-free labors."

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Source : Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.334, Greenwood Publishing Group

Henci Goer

#Home Quotes #Risk Quotes #May Quotes

“I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.”
“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.”
“All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.”
“Yesterday I lost not only a competitor, friend but most importantly a brother. Andy Irons you will be in my heart for eternity! R.I.P AI”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 3, 2010
“The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable.”
“There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.”
“I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl Panzram 'reformed' people who tried to reform him. It would be most merciful to help them by relieving them of the life they seem to hate so much. People should be happy I'm not a humanitarian-or I'd probably be the most diabolical mass murderer the world has ever known.”

Source : Interview in Wendy Leigh's Speaking Frankly, 1978.
“Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.”

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