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314. Who’s Afraid of Giving Birth? with Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Jessica Fostekew and Melody Robinson - part two

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What's the Vaginal Examination Meant to Be Doing?

There is the standard medical model of care that unless you ask for something different. That's the only allam i have on my furi i care often imposed upon women and other people who can give birth. Is it often just, they often just told this is how it's going to be, and you have to be informed to know? And so what's the vaginal examination meant to be doing? So it does two things. The one is, m it is supposed to determine a cervical dilation rite. Ifa, woman, thin person's labour doesn't em look like it's being plotted on long that grap medical intervention has theen em introduced to to speed things up.

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