Talk:Unassisted childbirth

message: That is a bit of an eyeful
:This article is about childbirth. Perhaps you meant to look up stork? - Wormcast (talk) 06:03, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Fuck that photo is a shocker - bit of warning would be appreciated 

message: In this paragraph, all but the first sentence contain the word 'may' as form of speculation. I have added a  tag in the meantime.
86.91.173.215 (talk) 22:53, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Solo birth

message: I have archived all of the comments from 2005, 2006, and 2007.  It appears that no comments were made during 2008.  You can read the comments by clicking the link in the archive box on the right, but please put your new comments here, where everyone will see them.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:41, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
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message: It is my impression that some, if not most, of the works listed under 'Sources' have been placed there in the spirit of "Additional reading". This is not what such a section is intended for. In any case, sources used in writing the article should be referenced with in-line citations, not with a general citation at the end. None of these have been so cited. Anyone who has used any of these sources in creating or improving the article - please indicate which parts of the text they apply to with in-line citations. -- Wormcast (talk) 01:18, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Sources' section 

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message: -Citation needed for definition from Vital Statistics Canada
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-Citations needed under the "Types" heading
-Research the prevalence of UC in other countries in addition to US and Australia
H.K.Barton (talk) 21:59, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Please be sure to use secondary sources for citations ..l if text cannot be cited to a secondary review or source, it may better be removed. “Journal article”s re not always secondary and are most often primary sources. See WP:MEDRS.  SandyGeorgia (Talk)  22:02, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
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message: In this article, see the paragraph starting at "But as restrictive midwifery regulations increase..."
Unassisted childbirth can take the form of a birth equivalent to "back-alley abortions" in states where midwives are regulated or prosecuted more often. Elsewhere the article mentions "others for financial reasons or lack of insurance". What this is entails is that factor is health insurance either does not compensate midwives much or not at all.
Likewise, in this interview, it states "Once I realized I would have to pay for the midwife and birthing center out of pocket, I decided to do home birth."
Lack of access is briefly mentioned in the lead. There are a number of articles on Google about how in rural areas in the US today some women live 100 miles or further from a hospital certified for births and staffed with OB-GYNs. The distant larger hospitals which have OB-GYNs may expect women to schedule an induction, or be more likely to mandate C-sections.
Several generations ago the requirements were lower, but now small hospitals which cannot do a C-section are not supposed to assist in childbirth. This could be included somehow in the article.
And this article describes COVID leading mothers to shun medical assistance. There are other articles ?(from the UK, Canada, and NZ) discussing women led to unassisted birth after midwives were not attending births do to coronavirus concerns.
Another factor that doesn't quite fit under the section heading is that there is no article discussing "born before arrival" births. According to this article, born before arrival does not count as unassisted. Yet this article in its current form seems to disagree. Possibly this would need to be its own article, with some clarification added here--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 03:34, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaps in article concerning the cause of unassisted birth 

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