I'm definitely not a huge fan of home birth, but Jesus Christ if you are going to practically make it a feature instead of a bug, then CNMs all the way!

If you're low risk, you can give birth at home. The NHS sends its most senior midwives to do home births.

My mum and my brother live in a semi-rural area just outside of London. I thought having to drive 20-25 mins to the nearest maternity ward was horrendous. A friend of mine was born in the same area and she was born in a maternity unit that has since been closed down, 5-10 minutes from the two large towns my brother…

Don't worry, they'll give it to a nice Christian family to care for it.

Abd you might as well point your car north and don't stop driving until you're in Canada.

Right? They're acting like CNMs are Joe Schmos ordering certification from the Hospital of Happiness and Light off the internet. These are nurses trained in midwifery.

Unless your husband wants to, then you must obey your wifely duties!

Right. Regardless of how safe home birth is compared with giving birth in an obstetrics ward, if there is no such ward where you live, you may not have much choice. And a midwife makes it a whole lot safer than DIYing it.

can i call for a country-wide uterus protest? No one gets babies until we can do it our way - safely (that includes abortions). I will type up a draft of our terms. We need a team for writing reproductive system puns.

And at the bottom of the linked article, was an ad for real estate in Alabama. Nope.

This is unfortunately true. I grew up a good 30 minutes south of birmingham and that's a long trek when in labor. The hospital on my hometown now has a good Labor and delivery wing but that's only happened in the past few years. We have 3 good options in Birmingham but that's the majority of maternity wards in the…

Not in Alabama, but the rural areas here are terrible. Many women take out a short term rental in town here so they know that they will have hospital access. Otherwise you could be looking at many hours on roads that are super ugly. Note to self - do not live in rural northern places.

Republicans sure love those family values!

JUST STOP HAVING SEX YOU WHOREY WHORE

I was just reading a little more on this because I wanted it to be wrong. It's actually criminalized in Alabama to work as a home birth midwife which is just...absurd.

If they choose to deliver at home, state law forbids them from being assisted by a midwife or other skilled provider.

Was it a penis? (I bet it was a penis)

Didn't Sisqó and Lil' Kim (in amazing musical fashion) first pose this inquiry to science? Take that cartoon owl.

When I was little, after I saw my first owl tootsie pop commercial, I was upset because I thought the owl was going to really find out how many licks it took.

This is an important discovery. That being said, science may never determine how many repetitions of the chorus of "Tootsee Roll" it takes to get to the center of madness.