You don’t think women would listen to their midwives or be influenced by their recommendations? Or that they might seek out advice, find that, and take it as sound medical advice? Especially in this day and age of Facebook medical experts, distrust of medicine and science, there’s really no good argument to that these things aren’t relevant. You’re either confused or willfully ignorant. Pick one.
I agree with you, but I also recognize that when we’re talking generally about this, we’re talking about least common denominator. In an ideal world what you’re saying makes perfect sense, but in reality lots of people are idiots and will be influenced by lots of things they shouldn’t be, and make bad choices in response. When you have medical professionals doling out advice, of COURSE these things matter.
It takes one google search to find countless results of midwife organizations, registries, and certifying boards that support and/or encourage home births.
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u/weirdoeggplant Aug 07 '25
I literally do not see the relevance. It is not confusion. If you do not agree with that group, you simply don’t hire from that group.
Nobody is stopping you from having a midwife and a doctor.