Medicalization is a process that is not medical but is interpreted as medical and requires medical management. Home birth, with the use of a midwife, has been medicalized. The medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth is the act of treating reproduction as a medical issue. Before medicalization, birth and pregnancy were seen as a human power. Being pregnant and giving birth were one of the most natural acts of the human race, but the medicalization of these has put even non-at-risk pregnancies at risk. The use of advanced technologies and exposure to medical procedures put healthy pregnancies at risk of developing problems that did not initially exist. From the early stages of pregnancy, the pregnant mother is encouraged to participate in a series of tests. As the pregnancy progresses, the number of tests also increases. For the purposes of this article, ultrasounds, prenatal genetic testing, cesarean sections, etc. will be classified into tests and procedures. This article will review the work of the authors: PJ McGann and Peter Conrad (2007), Jessica Shaw (2013), and Marsden Wagner (2010). McGann and Conrad explore how the medicalisation of events such as birth and pregnancy can benefit professionals. This helps explain their investment in the issue and use of medicalized procedures. Shaw delves into the strengths of medicalization, the positive effect of the use of ultrasound because they help develop a relationship between parents and fetus in the early stages of pregnancy. Wagner, however, argues that obstetricians are negligent in managing pregnancies based on their specific needs. This article studies the negative effect of medicalization that encourages managing all pregnancies medically... middle of paper... parents and fetus. However, this does not draw attention away from the harms of treating childbirth and pregnancy as medical conditions, when in reality they are not. Works Cited • McGann, PJ and Peter Conrad. “Deviance, medicalization of”. Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed.). Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online.• Shaw, Jessica CA (2013) “The medicalization of birth and midwifery as resistance.” Health Care for Women International 34: 522-535.• Wagner, Marsden (2010) Born in the United States. chap. 3, “Choose and Lose: Promoting Cesarean Sections and Other Invasive Interventions”: 37-69 • Taylor, Janelle (2008) Ch.3, “Obstetric Ultrasound between Medical Practice and Public Culture”, The Public Life of Ultrasound Fetal: Technology, Consumption and Politics of Reproduction (New Brunswick, NJ:Rutgers UP): 52-76.