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Thank you for holding this show. I hope the sense of the online comments was conveyed during the show--I couldn't listen to all of it--but our experience strongly supports the value of qualified midwives. Both of our boys were born at home in the 1980s with the midwife who wrote the first midwifery licensing exam for the state of Washington.

In the late 1980s (dated but it is what I know), the lowest rate of infant mortality in the world was in a Scandanavian country. Their most common birth method was at home, with a licensed midwife, and an aide car available. To be fair to MDs, their schooling, nor our lawsuit-happy culture, nor the time allowed per patient, allow them to provide the best care that most deliveries need:  specialized, attentive, sustained, in-tune, centered and client-supportive.

A good midwife's attention can assist a mother to turn her baby to avoid a breach or complicated birth.

I think there is room for another show on this topic with greater exploration of the mis-perceptions held by both sides.  

posted 3 years ago
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