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. 2022 Apr 1;24(4):E326-332.
doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.326.
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Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers (parteras curanderas). As American physicians and nurses increasingly differentiated themselves from traditional midwives, midwives of color in particular were disparaged and excluded from helping women give birth and thus from making birth a cultural foothold in their lives. As a result, communities of Latinx Indigenous peoples were culturally and spiritually separated-via the marginalization of parteras-from important health traditions, which caused suffering and illness. Reimplementation of birth as ceremony means babies can be born (and communities reborn) into an ancestral cultural ecology characterized by safety and cultural reclamation of healing.
Hasta mediados del siglo XX, los partos para los pueblos indígenas latinx en los Estados Unidos eran una ceremonia ancestral guiada por parteras y curanderas tradicionales (parteras curanderas). En la medida que médicos y enfermeros estadounidenses se diferenciaron cada vez más de las parteras tradicionales, las parteras de color en especial fueron menospreciadas y excluidas de ayudar a las mujeres a dar a luz y, por lo tanto, de hacer del parto un punto de apoyo cultural en sus vidas. Como consecuencia, las comunidades de pueblos indígenas latinx fueron separadas cultural y espiritualmente (a través de la marginalización de las parteras) de importantes tradiciones de la salud, lo que generó dolor y enfermedad. La reimplementación del parto como ceremonia significa que los bebés pueden nacer (y las comunidades renacer) dentro de una ecología cultural ancestral caracterizada por la seguridad y la recuperación cultural de la curación.
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