Types of birth

[lathany]

Title: Natural birth 'may aid baby bond'

Wrong. This is not a natural birth, this is a vaginal birth. A natural birth would be one where the mother (and beeb) had a much greater chance of dying throughout the process.

Sigh.

Comments

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

12 women in a test. That's definitely going to produce conclusive results. *double sigh*

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes... I've never quite understood why, if you're going to all the bother doing a proper scientific test, you'd limit it to a really small number. I guess maybe the sort of brain-scans required are expensive (or it's hard to find volunteers - in which case you've already broken your impartial selection thingy by only measuring people who agree to have Scary Brain Scanning done).

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

In this particular case, because the researchers weren't impartial because they already knew what they expected to find. The result was already "known" from animal studies.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I think I must have blanked that bit out.

[dracunculus.livejournal.com]

I can't figure this story out. They're tying the hormones to the contractions -- but don't most Caesareans happen after the woman has already been in labor? I mean, both sets of moms would experience contractions? I know *I* experienced 24 hours of them before my c-section...

[sosoclever.livejournal.com]

I think this study is directed at voluntary c-sections, which are generally scheduled for at least a couple of days before the doctors believe labor will begin.

[kirian.livejournal.com]

Hello, you've reached Kirian's brain. Unfortunately she's too furious to form a sentence right now, but if you'd like to continue to discuss, she'll get back to you as soon as she can.

BEEEEEEEEEEEP

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

Oh dearie me, what crap science on SOOOOOOO many levels.

Not a word about why the ladies who had "voluntary sections" chose to do so (nearly bled to death last time, did we, madam? How'd you like that again, or maybe...." )

A stupidly tiny sample, a badly worded report...Oh, can we just say "duhhhhh" and be done with it?

(PS bet the report and especially the title was written by a bloke).