100% agree. I was in the room when a doctor told my best friend that he wanted to switch to a c-section (they’d started pitocin 4 hours prior, with the notice that she only had 12 hours after it started before medical intervention would be necessary). Friend: I think we’d like to wait and see if I can do this…

Check out the research from the Netherlands, where their maternity system is highly dependent on midwives to look out how things go on a large scale.