Podcast summary
Safeguarding Birth: Dr. Bill Chun on Empowering Pregnancy
Continuity and restraint drive lower C-sections
C-section rates surged because systems reward intervention—liability, efficiency, and money—while modern care fragments decisions. Physiologic birth requires relationship, monitoring-before-intervention, and allowing time for labor.
“Safe” induction protocols create cascade risks
Soft-indication inductions (age/IVF/BMI/anxiety) compress a process clinicians can’t time well, then failure leads to C-sections and downstream pain, hemorrhage, and breastfeeding disruption.
Doulas are the scalable continuity lever
Doctors and even midwives can’t scale access amid shortages and global system inertia, but doulas can. However, the industry’s unregulated variability and hospital privilege barriers shape outcomes and adoption.
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