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Introduction	The problem is that doctors today often assume that something mysterious and unidentified has gone wrong with labor or that the woman's body is somehow "inadequate"-what I call the "woman's body as a lemon" assumption. For a variety of reason, a lot of women have also come to believe that nature made a serious mistake with their bodies. This belief has become so strong in many that they give in to pharmaceutical or surgical treatments when patience and recognitionof the normality and harmlessness of the situation would make for better health for them and their babies and less surgery and technological intervention in birth. MOST WOMEN NEED ENCOURAGEMENT AND COMPANIONSHIP MORE THAN THEY NEED DRUGS. -Ina May Gaskin Guide to Childbirth p. 114 (emphasis mine)

Introduction

The problem is that doctors today often assume that something mysterious and unidentified has gone wrong with labor or that the woman's body is somehow "inadequate"-what I call the "woman's body as a lemon" assumption. For a variety of reason, a lot of women have also come to believe that nature made a serious mistake with their bodies. This belief has become so strong in many that they give in to pharmaceutical or surgical treatments when patience and recognitionof the normality and harmlessness of the situation would make for better health for them and their babies and less surgery and technological intervention in birth. MOST WOMEN NEED ENCOURAGEMENT AND COMPANIONSHIP MORE THAN THEY NEED DRUGS. -Ina May Gaskin Guide to Childbirth p. 114 (emphasis mine)