Just come back home from watching this and it is a brilliant video, so sad what is happening in America at the moment but also watching the video sometimes was similar to watching what goes on in practice. The c/section rates in some/most hospitals over there is 45%, and they were saying they (the obs) didn't know what skills midwives had in facilitating homebirth, the equipment they took or nothing. The video showed one particular midwife who went alone to homebirths and quite often they were in a pool at home, she was talking of her struggles with the government. They also visit birth centres, one of which was having to close down as it was so difficult to get their payment from the insurance companies over there.
Another point was made that if a midwife working in the hospital has a normal birth rate of over 30% the ob (physician) will often get rid of her as its stiff competition for them- how bad is that???

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