Palestinian birth practices: Accounts from dayat (traditional birth attendants) in Palestine
This blog is a compilation of knowledge gathered from various research studies conducted by Laura Wick and others at the Institute of Community and Public Health of Birzeit University in Palestine. The research involved interviews with birthing people and dayat (traditional birth attendants) to gain first hand accounts of birth practices in Palestine.
We need to rethink linear time in the birth space
Linear time is the idea that time is sequential, always pushing forward and never back. This subjectivity may be considered normal, but if we look at time from the perspective of various non-western cultures, this is not necessarily the case. Within the labour ward setting, time is a finite resource that is essentially ‘running out’ the moment you you walk through the hospital doors.