New Generation Thinkers 2022
Arts & Ideas
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Ultrasound and Pregnancy
There is this potential disconnect between what the patients are hearing and what the parents to be a hearing in the ultra sound itself. What clinitions are predominantly interpreting at the early stages of pregnancy is the visual ation of the ultra sound waves. At no stage does it represent the beginnings of a maternal fetal relationship as it does to the parents who are waiting theos. It's very disempowering to women who aren't involved in the birth process, but it can also have very consequences. For black women, last yearin 20 21, the still birth rate was seven still berths for every thousand births. And i obstetritians need to listen to how women make sense of the
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