Magamama With Kimberly Ann Johnson: Sex, Birth And Motherhood

Jennifer Block is an award winning journalist, an advocate for women’s health care, and the author of books including “Pushed: the Painful Truth about Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care” and “Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution.” She writes frequently about health, gender, and conflict of interest in medicine. What She Shares:     Insight into the recent Madison Breech Birth Conference     Working for 5 years to get publishers to take her first book seriously     Why viewing birth through a human rights lens is so important     How feminism’s relationship with the medical establishment has changed  What You’ll Hear:     How the lack of professional birth education creates ‘birth refugees’     How practitioners organized the Madison Breech Birth Conference to take education back into their own hands     The importance of human rights in birth     Taking an active role in your birth and changing the trauma response     The correspondence of the rise in maternal mortality