Michel Odent Quotes

• ...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.

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  Women, Giving, Goal

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• Si queremos encontrar alternativas seguras a la obstetricia, debemos redescubrir la partería. Redescubrir la partería equivale a devolver el parto a las mujeres. E imaginemos el futuro si los equipos quirúrgicos estuvieran al servicio de las comadronas y de las mujeres en lugar de controlarlas.

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  Inspiring, Children, Team

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• Cuando estés de parto, recuerda que la duración del parto suele ser proporcional al número de personas que haya alrededor. Evita la presencia de cualquiera que pueda liberar adrenalina. La mejor situación que conozco para un parto fácil es cuando no hay nadie más alrededor que una comadrona experimentada, maternal y silenciosa que no se comporte como una guía o una observadora.

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  Numbers, People, Silence

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• To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born.

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  Baby, World, Way

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• La experiencia ha demostrado claramente que un enfoque que "desmedicalice" el parto, devuelva dignidad y humanidad al proceso del parto y devuelva el control a la madre es también el enfoque más seguro.

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  Inspiring, Mother, Medicine

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• Suelo afirmar que las embarazadas no deberían leer libros sobre el embarazo y el parto. Su tiempo es demasiado valioso. Deberían, más bien, mirar la luna y cantarle a su bebé en el vientre.

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  Baby, Pregnancy, Book

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• According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit on the same tree is ripe at the same time...we must accept that some babies need a much longer time than others before they are ready to be born.

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  Baby, Tree, Needs

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• Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest of the world while discovering her baby; suddenly somebody appears with two clamps and a pair of scissors in order to cut the cord. This distraction is a dangerous interference with the physiological processes.

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  Madre, Bebé, Corte

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• The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into birth if they want their birth to be natural. Making choices of where and with whom to birth is not the same as bringing knowledge and skills into your birth regardless of where and with whom you birth.

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  Responsibility, Skills, Choices

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• It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their role should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women

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  Emotional, Roles, Care

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• So many words commonly used to describe childbirth-support, patient, management, delivered by, coached, helped, guided-suggest that a woman does not have the power to give birth without being dependent on somebody else. This isn't the case at all.

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  Giving, Support, Doe

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• The only significant effect of continuous electronic fetal monitoring was an increase in the cesarean rate.

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  Cesarean, Significant, Increase

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• People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about the power of water. People are drawn to water, spas, and sacred streams. Women in labor are drawn to water, too.

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  Correr, Gente, Agua

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• We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.

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  Mentir, Pensar, Dar

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• Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home. She can also speak like a medical doctor. By intermingling the language of the heart and the scientific language she is driving the history of childbirth towards a radical and inspiring new direction.

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  Madre, Hijos, Hogar

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