In Your Own Time: How Western Medicine Controls the Start of Labour and Why This Needs to Stop Shade Bobbin lives at the edge

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In Your Own Time: How Western Medicine Controls the Start of Labour and Why This Needs to Stop Shade Bobbin lives at the edgePregnant women and maternity services are facing an induction epidemic. As medical guidelines include more "at risk" categories, women and our already overwhelmed and under resourced maternity systems are increasingly pressured to induce birth before labour begins spontaneously. Women are deemed to be too large and too old, while babies are estimated to be too big and too overdue. But is 'better out than in' really a safer option than waiting to birth