{"id":3255,"date":"2019-03-30T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2019-03-30T08:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T12:26:09","slug":"the-most-scientific-birth-is-often-the-least-technological-birth-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/30\/the-most-scientific-birth-is-often-the-least-technological-birth-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Scientific Birth Is Often the Least Technological Birth &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus. What they don&#8217;t envision is the omnivorous, pants-wearing science geek standing before them.Indeed, they become downright confused when I go on to explain that there was really only one reason why my mate &#8212; an academic int<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2012\/03\/the-most-scientific-birth-is-often-the-least-technological-birth\/254420\/\">The Most Scientific Birth Is Often the Least Technological Birth &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}