Photo Gallery #1
Normal physiology of childbearing pelvis and mechanisms of normal
labor
Conduct of a spontaneous birth at home attended by a doctor in the early
1900s
Photo Gallery #2
Contracted Pelvis from rickets, historical beginning of hospital-based
childbirth,
routine or 'preemptive' use of Episiotomy & Forceps delivery, damage to mother's
pelvic floor musculature
Photo Gallery #3 -
"Modern"
childbirth, in which mother is not under the influence Twilight
drugs
(narcotics and scopolamine) during labor, dad is allowed to be in Labor
Room and in Delivery Room.
Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1950s |