What Is an Example of the Medicalization of Childbirth

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Multiple Choice

What is an example of the medicalization of childbirth?

• A) Delivering in hospital assisted by a midwife
• B) Having an episiotomy
• C) Squatting to deliver
• D) Auscultating the fetal heart with a stethoscope

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Definitions:

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Infant Vocalisations

The earliest forms of vocal communication emitted by infants, including cooing and babbling sounds.

Consonant-Vowel

A syllabic structure forming the basic building blocks of language, involving a consonant sound followed by a vowel sound.

Gambler's Fallacy

The erroneous belief that if an event occurs more frequently than normal during some period, it will happen less frequently in the future, or vice versa.