American College of Midwives ~

American College of Midwives
Faith with Godson Joshua Arritt, Cape Cod MA PHB - March 16, 1992	Essays, Commentaries Position Statements by Faith Gibson, LM, CPM If you only read one document, this should be it: .... Principles of Physiological Management ~ Spontaneous Labor and Birth	Baby Boy - Born to Marlis and Andy San Francisco - March 19, 1990

IMPORTANT Short or Easy to Read	Physiological Management Normal Labor & Birth 2- page List ~ 2001	Historical, Legal or Political Longer and more complex Commentaries
MaternityCare 2.0 Common Sense Childbirth for Healthy Women in the 21st Century ~ A new way for a new day ~ 2006	Faith's Eldest Grandson - 1994	Overview of Problems Twentieth Century Maternity Care in the US ~ Why doesn't it work for healthy women? 2007
Four Contrasting Studies on Safety: 1) unattended, (2) lay midwife-attended, (3) professional midwife-attended (4) obstetrician-attend (surprise! -- lay midwives did the best with the least) Man-Midwives ~ The Historical Tension Between Midwifery & Obstetrics During the 20th century ~ 2007 “It not so much what you say as what you repeat over and over again” ~ PBS News Hour, 6/28/2005, in relationship to the war in Iraq	Faith's Eldest Grandson - 1994	Midwifery: The Bell that Can't Be Un-rung Ancient and Modern History of Childbearing and Midwifery Material for Carol Sakala ~ 2007 My Suggestion for Rehabilitating 21st Century Maternity care 1. Overview of topic 2. How normal birth became a surgical procedure performed on obstetricians 3. The principles of physiological management
Blog ~ Normal-birth.blogspot.com Rebuttal to New Yorker article THE SCORE by Dr Gawande - October 2006	New York Times Guest Op-Ed Dec 27, 2007 Addendum accompanying NYT piece	Contemporary History of California Medical Board and the LMPA ~ April 2006
Common Sense & Semmelweis ~ Political History of Birth as a Surgical Procedure published 2006 A plan for rehabilitating obstetrical care for healthy women CEO White Paper 2004 from web site sciencebasedbirth.com	Faith's 3 adult children and first grandbaby ~ 1993 Holly, youngest, Todd Christopher, only son and Shawn, eldest, with her firstborn Devin	Why and How to Reverse the 1976 Bowland Decision Story of the flawed legal theories used all over the US by organized medicine to enforce a monopoly over normal childbirth services. This is done by criminalizing non-nurse midwives and restricting the independent practice of CNMs through mandatory obstetrician supervision laws. All of this legal mischief hinges on California's Bowland Decision. 2006
published as essay in 2002 The Official Plan to Eliminate the Midwife in the US ~1900-1930 "... The hallmark of obstetrical quality is the prevention of the rare disaster rather than the optimal conduct of the many normal cases" Dr. Brody 1981	Faith's Personal and Professional History My Retirement from duties as Midwifery Liaison to the Medical Board of California	The Goodly Art of Orifice Maintenance Originally published in the Midwives Association of North America (MANA) Newsletter December 24, 1994
Unpublished Manuscript by Faith Gibson, LM, CPM 2008 Trapped on the Wrong Side of History: The Last and Most Important UNTOLD Story of the 20th century The perfect storm that turned healthy women into the patients of a surgical specialty and normal childbirth into a surgical procedure: Chapters 1 --> 10	Title Page & Notes on Vocabulary Chapter One Early years as an L&D nurse in a racially segregated hospital in the Deep South Chapter Two Maternity Care for Healthy Women with Normal Pregnancies --> Defining the problem Chapter Three A Plan for Correcting the Problem	Chapter four The historical back drop for 20th century obstetrical practices Chapter five Practical Applications of the New Medical Science in the Later 1800s Chapter six Hospitals BC – Before Common knowledge of microbiology: Hospital/Childbed Fever ~ Institutional Diseases of the 17th, 18th, & 19th Centuries
Chapter Seven Dr Ignaz Semmelweis and the Allgemeines Krankenhaus Chapter eight 20th Century Obstetrics in the US Chapter Nine Architects of the ‘New Obstetrics’ ~ Listerizing Birth, Circa 1910 Chapter Ten Catch-22 --> Interventions increases mortality rate, more deaths explained why so much intervention is necessary	Faith with Baby Brook Thomas ~ June 12, 1991	Unpublished Manuscript by Faith Gibson ~ September 2005 Ancient Midwifery, Hx of Medical & Mfry, Politics of Medicine & Mfry, Evidence-Based Practice of Midwifery and Contemporary Research ~ the profession of midwifery and its relationship with organized medicine