This podcast is centered around a 2022 article from Singh and Dmowska, on “obstetric gaslighting and denial of mothers’ realities” These researchers conducted 46 in-depth interviews with mothers who had self-described traumatic births, and found that “gaslighting can operate as a key, yet under examined, strategy of obstetric violence, or the institutional and interpersonal violation of women's’ rights during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum” They found that the gaslighting in manifested in doctors denying–and therefore destabilizing– mothers’ realities”
Singh and Dmowska worked to undercover the four different ways that these mothers were being gaslit and their realities denied: being the denial of the mother’s humanity, the denial of the mothers’ knowledge as valid, the denial of the mothers’ judgements as ration, and the mother’s feelings as legitimate
