Wait, midwives aren't common over the pond? Me at maternity care here is midwife led unless there are significant risk factors: weight, age previous miscarriages etc
Midwifes aren't integrated into the hospital system here in the slightest, so midwifery is almost exclusively the domain of "home births" only. Which creates stigmas in both directions that keep each one alive and the way it is.
Also, hospital births are often incredibly expensive even for the most perfect birth possible, and its a debt almost everyone in the nation will incur at least once at some point. So the hospitals have vested interest in keeping things in house and exactly like they are to continue to screw over middle America, as nearly everyone else either just ignores the debt or gets it completely covered by tax funded programs.
Just seems odd to me, I deal with midwives on a daily basis at work so the idea that not everywhere has them never occured to me. I'm aware of the exorbitant costs of health care state side mind, but I'm never sure about the rhetoric surrounding it
Wait, midwives aren't common over the pond? Me at maternity care here is midwife led unless there are significant risk factors: weight, age previous miscarriages etc
Midwifes aren't integrated into the hospital system here in the slightest, so midwifery is almost exclusively the domain of "home births" only. Which creates stigmas in both directions that keep each one alive and the way it is.
Also, hospital births are often incredibly expensive even for the most perfect birth possible, and its a debt almost everyone in the nation will incur at least once at some point. So the hospitals have vested interest in keeping things in house and exactly like they are to continue to screw over middle America, as nearly everyone else either just ignores the debt or gets it completely covered by tax funded programs.
Just seems odd to me, I deal with midwives on a daily basis at work so the idea that not everywhere has them never occured to me. I'm aware of the exorbitant costs of health care state side mind, but I'm never sure about the rhetoric surrounding it
This isn't true whatsoever.
Well perhaps it's true at garbage hospitals. But any network worth being in has numerous midwives.