Except that childbirth killed more women throughout history than any other cause, but sure. It’s just like taking a shit. Why make a big deal out of it?

It’s not a planned emergency, but when it happens, it happens fast. That’s like saying I’ll drive drunk at 120mph because I don’t plan on an accident

Unfortunately things go wrong quicker than even an ambulance can arrive. Read the stats: fetal death is higher outside of a hopsital. That is a fact and always will be.

“Why anyone would seek out going to a hospital as a primary option is beyond me.”

Well then you’re pretty dumb, aren’t you?

Just to let you know , in Canada, obgyn is standard pregnancy and post natal care and Canadian women would not settle for anything less. We just don’t want to put our lives at risk just because people want to lower the cost of women’s health care. Because in the end, that’s what natural birth propaganda is - trying to…

I actually really like Beth, so I’m just so so disappointed in all of this. Anti-doctor sentiment is growing every year, and there’s apparently nothing that can be done to quell it.

Both of these are 1-in-10,000 risks.

Women who advocate for midwives make a point to say midwives are great for “uncomplicated” pregnancies, but how to you know your pregnancy is “uncomplicated” if you refuse things like ultrasounds? It sounds like a lot of standard tests are optional- how do they test for gestational diabetes? I’ve heard of things that…

Oh Beth.

British Columbia now licences midwives after a few horrific baby deaths due to midwives believing that childbirth is just not a medical emergency. The University of British Columbia offers a midwifery course to students who must be R.N.s before they can even apply. We had a woman passing herself (and still may be…

“Many midwives have a graduate nursing degree.” And many don’t. Most of the midwives who perform home births don’t have any college degree at all. Only CNMs have actual college degrees, CPMs do not. CPMs also don’t have hospital admitting privileges should something go wrong.

Why anyone would buy a car with antilock brakes is beyond me. Antilock brakes are for when you hit the brakes so hard that the wheels lock up and skid. Normal driving does not require hitting the brakes that hard. Of course something can jump out in front of you and you may have to hit the brakes that hard, but that’s…

“Giving birth is not a medical emergency” - yes it is an emergency, of course it is. In many cases it is a life threatening emergency .

Yay for female empowerment via science denial!!

Sounds great, as long as you’re also mentally prepared to deal with a personal infant mortality rate from the 1800s, and have saved up enough money for a funeral (or two, since a lot of the things that can go wrong at the last minute can also take out the mother). It’s totally your right to expose yourself to that…

I am a medical malpractice defense attorney. As such I see many of the worst case scenarios across a range of medical situations. The single most common type of cases we get relate to complications during birth. There are 100s of things that can go wrong. The majority of the cases I see are brought because the doctor…

I’m sorry, but the midwife crowd is almost as full of misinformation as the Anti-Vaxx crew. During the birth of our first child, my wife was as low risk as you could get. Young, no health issues, very fit, and every ultrasound was perfect. Even the birth was progressing fine, no need to induce and no planned due date…

I’m sorry, I’m still not seeing the benefits of a midwife? Mostly it seemed like thus article said the benefits are basically “you get to choose whether you want to do X” and we got to choose all of those things. In each case we were allowed to ask questions, and the Doctor (an Obgyn) explained the pros and cons.

My wife and I just had our first child five weeks ago today. She had a “normal” pregnancy but had a very abnormal amount of bleeding after our son was born and had to be rushed into surgery. If we hadn’t been at a hospital, with surgeons available, she would have bled to death. Again, she displayed no risk factors for…

I remarked to my girlfriend after she heard about this story that “if I ever get that kind of brain damage from anything, please, pull the plug. I don’t want to survive that.”

To which she said “if I found out you got brain damage after a night in a whorehouse, I’d gladly pull the plug.”