Ina May Gaskin

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Ina May Gaskin in New Zealand at Nambassa 1981, a festival for music and alternative life

Ina May Gaskin (born March 8, 1940 ) is an American midwife (in the USA Certified Professional Midwife , CPM ), who was referred to as the "mother of authentic midwifery" ("mother of authentic obstetrics").

She is a co-founder of The Farm Commune in Tennessee and is also known as "the world's most famous midwife".

family

Gaskin was born into a Protestant family in Iowa ( Methodist on one side, Presbyterian on the other). Her father, Talford Middleton, came from a large farm in Iowa that was lost to the bank shortly after her father's accidental death. Her mother, Ruth Stinson Middleton, was a home economics teacher. She taught in various small towns around Marshalltown . Both parents were college graduates who valued higher education.

Gaskin's maternal grandparents ran a Presbyterian orphanage in Farmington , a small town in the Ozarks . Her grandmother, Ina May Beard Stinson, ran the orphanage for many years after the death of her pastor husband. She was an avid member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and a great admirer of Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Susan B. Anthony, and Jane Addams . Gaskin's paternal grandparents were all farmers. Her grandfather, Adam Leslie Middleton, traveled and worked with farmers from Iowa, Illinois , Minnesota , South Dakota , Nebraska, and Kansas in a grain co-op, organized corporations, and direct sales in Chicago and other major cities to build local co-op granaries. His work as an organizer took him to Canada to work with wheat producers and to Washington, DC , at the invitation of the Department of Agriculture under President Warren G. Harding .

Ina May Gaskin has been married to Stephen Gaskin since 1976 , who in 1980 was among the first to receive the Right Livelihood Award (the "Alternative Nobel Prize").

The Farm Midwifery Center

In 1971, Gaskin and her husband formed a commune in Summertown, Tennessee known as The Farm . It was here that she and other midwives founded The Farm Midwifery Center , one of the first out-of-hospital midwifery centers in the United States. The centre's methods were developed on the recommendation of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists . Family members and friends are usually present and encouraged to play an active role in the birth. The center has been shown to have an extremely low rate of medical interventions and consistently good births for nearly forty years.

On the importance of Gaskin's activity

According to Carol Lorente (1995), the work of Gaskin and the midwives could not have had the impact had it not been for Gaskin's book Spiritual Midwifery (1977):

“Considered a seminal work, it presented pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding from a fresh, natural and spiritual perspective, rather than the standard clinical viewpoint. In homebirth and midwifery circles, it made her a household name, and a widely respected teacher and writer. "
(Your book is considered to be) a seminal work that introduced pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding from a fresh, natural and spiritual perspective, rather than the typical clinical point of view. It made her name well known in home birth and midwifery circles and made her a widely respected teacher and author.

Gaskin agreed with the emergence and popularization of independently working midwives in the United States since the early 1970s ( direct-entry midwifery DEM, similar to midwives in Germany who are legally allowed to look after healthy pregnant women and women who have recently given birth without consulting a doctor). Between 1977 and 2000 she published in the quarterly magazine Birth Gazette . Ina May's Guide to Childbirth . Her second book on childbirth and midwifery was published by Bantam / Dell in 2003. Her books have been translated into various languages, including German, Italian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Spanish and Japanese.

She has been an internationally renowned speaker on maternal care for the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) since the early 1980s , and independently lectures to midwives, medical professionals , doulas , expectant parents, and health policymakers around the world . She has spoken at medical and midwifery schools in many countries, at the Starwood Festival, and before the WinterStar Symposium to discuss the history and importance of midwifery.

She founded the Safe Motherhood Quilt Project , a national movement to raise public awareness of the current maternal mortality rate and to commemorate women who have died of pregnancy in the past twenty years.

Gaskin appears in several films, such as Ricki Lakes Orgasmic Birth (2009) and The Business of Being Born (2008). She can also be seen in With Women: A Documentary About Women, Midwives and Birth (2006).

The Gaskin maneuver

The Gaskin maneuver, also known as the quadruped stance , was introduced into modern obstetrics by Gaskin in 1976. She had learned this position from a Belizean woman, who in turn had learned this position in Guatemala , where it was originally created. This makes Gaskin the first midwife after whom an obstetric position was named. In this position, the mother helps herself with shoulder dystocia by getting on all fours so the shoulder can loosen. The change in position also changes the position of the pelvis, allowing the wedged shoulder to loosen itself so the baby can be born. Since the introduction of this position, there has been a significant shift away from the lithotomy position during labor. If the woman giving birth has received epidural anesthesia (PDA), the quadruped position is more difficult to perform.

Appreciations

Ina May Gaskin lectures and lectures at midwifery conferences and medical schools around the world. On June 14, 2008 she led a workshop A Guide to Natural Childbirth at the New York Open Center in Manhattan. She was the President of the Midwives' Alliance of North America from 1996 to 2002 . She received the ASPO / Lamaze Irwin Chabon Award (1997) and the Tennessee Perinatal Association Recognition Award. Also in 1997, she was a visiting fellow at Morse College at Yale University .

On November 24, 2009 she received an honorary doctorate from Thames Valley University in London.

On September 29, 2011, the jury of the Right Livelihood Awards announced that they had been awarded the “alternative Nobel Prize” together with Jacqueline Moudeina and the GRAIN organization . The jury justified Gaskin's appreciation by stating that she teaches and disseminates birth methods that focus on women and promote the physical and mental health of mother and child, that she combines scientific analysis with extensive experience in the practice of natural medicine and is a pioneer of midwifery training and "preserved a unique knowledge that was largely forgotten in a world of technically dominated births". Gaskin accepted the award on December 5, 2011 in Stockholm.

Quote

“A society that gives little value to its mothers and the process of childbirth will suffer from a number of bad outcomes. Good beginnings make a positive difference in the world, and so it is worth all the effort when we give mothers and babies the best possible care in this enormously directional phase of life. "

bibliography

Books (selection in English and German)

items

Movies

  • 2006: With Women: A Documentary About Women, Midwives and Birth
  • 2008: The Business of Being Born
  • 2009: Orgasmic Birth

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ KA Granju: The Midwife of Modern Midwifery. Salon.com, Brilliant Careers, 1999.
  2. ↑ http://www.hebammenverband.de/index.php?id=764&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=118&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=766&cHash=d56df9a5da59cb1f719050936b53876c
  3. ^ A b Lisa Erdmann: Alternative Nobel Prize - Honor for the silent heroes . In: Spiegel Online of September 29, 2011, accessed on September 29, 2011.
  4. ↑ CW Lorente: [1] Vegetarian Times, Special Women's Health Issue, July 1995.
  5. ^ The Quilt Project .
  6. ^ International Movie Data Base website
  7. ↑ Ina May Gaskin, Author, Activist, Innovator
  8. ↑ Kathryn Demott: Gaskin Maneuver is Gaining Popularity. ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. OB / GYN News, Nov. 1, 1999. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  9. ↑ The All Fours Maneuver for Reducing Shoulder Dystocia During Labor ( Memento of the original dated August 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.inamay.com
  10. ↑ Ina May Gaskin, Author, Activist, Innovator ( Memento of the original dated August 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.inamay.com
  11. ↑ http://www.hebammenverband.de/index.php?id=764&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=118&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=766&cHash=d56df9a5da59cb1f719050936b53876c
  12. ^ Winners of the Right Livelihood Awards call for human rights and environmental protection at derstandard.at, December 5, 2011 (accessed December 6, 2011).
  13. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. INA MAY GASKIN (USA)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rightlivelihood.org
personal data
SURNAME Gaskin, Ina May
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American midwife
DATE OF BIRTH March 1940