Psychedelic Birth

Coming Home ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 64-94
Author(s):  
Wendy Kline
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Home Birth ◽  
Psychiatric Research ◽  
Birth Experience ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Alternative Pathways ◽  
Spiritual Transcendence ◽  
Mainstream Medicine ◽  
Communist China

Chapter 3, “Psychedelic Birth: The Emergence of the Hippie Midwife,” explores the home birth experience from the perspective of the counterculture. In this context, childbirth became a catalyst to spiritual transcendence. At the same time, new developments in psychiatric research and the proliferation of psychoactive substances created a vibrant, albeit surprising, intellectual exchange between hippies, midwives, and some psychiatrists about the meaning and significance of birth. This chapter exposes the resulting unexpected entanglements between psychedelic psychiatry and spiritual midwifery by focusing on the creation of the longest lasting hippie commune, The Farm. Though The Farm was established in Summertown, Tennessee, its founders traveled from San Francisco to build their utopia and they brought with them intellectual and practical tools gathered from as far away as Communist China and Czechoslovakia. The story illustrates how alternative pathways to mainstream medicine, in both childbirth and psychiatry, came into fruition in the 1970s.

Fear of Home Birth in Doctors and Obstetric Iatrogenesis

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amali Lokugamage
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physiological Function ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Home Birth ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Birth Experience ◽  
Normal Birth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Breastfeeding Rates

Home births are physiological births and form part of the social model of birth. Doctors, traditionally, have been very fearful of out-of-hospital birth, and physiological births happen less frequently in obstetric units. Normal/physiological birth contributes to improving public health, and doctors are often not aware of the extent of this benefit. Normal birth leads to adaptive physiological function in the baby (endocrine, immune system, thyroid function, respiration, neurology, temperature regulation), more mother and baby bonding, and promotes higher breastfeeding rates, which in turn lead to better lifelong emotional and physical health in babies. Normal birth affirms health, promotes empowerment in mothers, and is a societal event that has been linked to promoting positive emotional qualities in society via the birthing hormone, oxytocin. Training within the medical model constrains doctors’ appreciation of normal birth. Experience of complications, a lack of awareness of the evidence surrounding home birth, compounded by failure to understand the concept of iatrogenesis, perpetuates fear of home birth among doctors.

scholarly journals Report on
 the second (1978) Microzonation Conference

1979 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
R. J. Bentley
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Page Number ◽  
General Interest ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Engineering Seismology ◽  
The University

The writer attended the second Microzonation Conference at San Francisco in December, 1978. The Conference lasted five days and papers were
delivered on a wide variety of subjects. Discussion here is limited to topics where new developments appear to the writer to be of general interest, These notes therefore hardly constitute a review of the conference, but they may assist earthquake engineers not directly involved in engineering seismology or in microzoning studies to keep aware of current developments. Papers are referred to by page number and a list of proceedings is appended. The proceedings (in three Volumes) will shortly be available from the Ministry of Works and Development and University libraries. Copies can also be obtained from the Conference Organiser: Professor Mehmet A. Sherif at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Residential On-Site Carsharing and Off-Street Parking in the San Francisco Bay Area, California

2013 ◽  
Vol 2359 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Rivasplata ◽  
Zhan Guo ◽  
Richard W. Lee ◽  
David Keyon
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Residential Developments ◽  
Residential Properties

This research explores the recent practice of connecting on-site car-sharing service with off-street parking standards in multifamily developments; the San Francisco Bay Area, California, is used as a case study. If implemented well, such a policy could help boost the carsharing industry and reduce off-street parking, which is often criticized as being over-supplied as a result of excessive off-street parking standards. In 2011, the authors surveyed all carsharing sites in the Bay Area and all new residential developments (completed after 2000) with on-site carsharing spaces. The results showed that a significant number of carsharing spaces were located on residential properties, but 70% of the spaces had been retrofitted into existing buildings. For the new developments, on-site carsharing did not result in a reduction in the amount of regular off-street parking. Interviews with 15 professionals from three stakeholder groups (planners, developers, and service providers) revealed that even though all the stakeholders were in favor of on-site carsharing at residential developments, three major barriers existed: a lack of incentives, the complexity of access design, and high transaction costs.

Subsequent childbirth after previous traumatic birth experience: women's choices and evaluations

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 488-496
Author(s):  
Annaleena Holopainen ◽  
Claire Stramrood ◽  
Mariëlle G van Pampus ◽  
Martine Hollander ◽  
Carlo Schuengel
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Home Birth ◽  
Subsequent Pregnancy ◽  
Birth Experience ◽  
Childbirth Experience ◽  
Risk Pregnancy ◽  
Subsequent Birth ◽  
Traumatic Birth ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Traumatic Childbirth

Background After a traumatic childbirth experience, women are often afraid of future pregnancies, and may be at risk for also experiencing their subsequent childbirth as traumatic. Aims Two questions were investigated regarding women's experience of their subsequent childbirth after a previous traumatic birth: (1) which factors in the previous traumatic birth are associated with the subsequent childbirth experience, and (2) fear of childbirth and coping behaviour during the subsequent pregnancy associated with the subsequent birth experience. Methods A total 474 Dutch women (mean age during traumatic childbirth=28.9 years; SD=3.9) answered an online survey about their previous traumatic and subsequent birth experience. Findings Making a birth plan, choosing a home birth in a high-risk pregnancy, and having a planned caesarean section emerged as statistically significant correlates of positive subsequent birth experience. Conclusion Experiencing control over the subsequent birth might underlie practices associated with more positive subsequent childbirth experience among women with a traumatic childbirth history.

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