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Re: Episiotomy question From: Ina May Gaskin (inamaygaskin@gmail.com) Tue Feb 19 08:59:13 2008 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: Eminence vs. Evidence" Previous message: Ina May Gaskin: "Re: Episiotomy question" In reply to: Meenan, Anna: "Re: Episiotomy question" True. I actually think this position has been used all over the world by indigenous people who never had any contact with each other. it's a natural for people who don't sit on chairs all the time. I asked a Mayan midwife how she learned the position, and she pointed to the sky and said, "Dios." Ina May On 18 Feb 2008, at 19:38, Meenan, Anna wrote: > If you want the original name, you'd probably be translating it > from the original Mayan dialect, as it originated with Mayan > midwives in the highlands of Guatemala. > > Anna Meenan, MD > >> Maybe Ina May should answer this--since she didn't invent the >> maneuver--this is now the "correct" term, but is recent. So, what >> constitutes the correct term? >> >> Louana >> >> -- Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el@lisse.na> wrote: >> I prefer the correct term, which is the "Gaskin Maneuver". >> >> el >> >> On Feb 18, 2008, at 22:55, Meenan, Anna wrote: >> >>> Actually John, in the original descriptions in the American >>> medical literature, there is no mention of knee-chest. >>> >>> Meenan AL, Gaskin IM, Hunt P, Ball C. A New (Old) Maneuver for >>> the Management of Shoulder Dystocia. Journal of Family >>> Practice, 1991, 32:625-629. >>> >>> Bruner JP, Drummond JSB, Meenan AL, Gaskin IM. All-Fours >>> Maneuver for Reducing Shoulder Dystocia During Labor. Journal >>> of Reproductive Medicine 1998, 43:439-443 >>> >>> Correct me if I'm wrong, Ina May, but I recall reading >>> somewhere that you had stated that you preferred the term >>> "All-4's maneuver" as it is more descriptive in an emergency >>> for someone who is not familiar with the maneuver. The rest of >>> us just think it's cool that a life-saving obstetrical maneuver >>> has been named after a licensed professional midwife. >>> >>> Anna Meenan, MD >>> > Next message: R. Daniel Braun: "Re: Eminence vs. Evidence" Previous message: Ina May Gaskin: "Re: Episiotomy question" In reply to: Meenan, Anna: "Re: Episiotomy question"

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