On the other hand, we can compete very strongly with doctors and nurses because midwives can do all those things easily, plus offer preventative measures, womanly wisdom, and our own experience in giving birth. We can also offer a lot of tricks of the trade that doctors don't know about- plus a gentler approach. A- To protect the women. A- To create a safe environment for the mother and baby. In order to sell commercial space, whatever's being presented has to have a dramatic element.
Birth has to be warped a bit to make it saleable to commercial interests.
Midwives, police officers and lawyers will tell you that the every day work of their businesses is nothing at all like what is seen on TV- but people never believe it. They already know that I'm out of the system. In the course of prenatal visits, we get to know each other, trust each other and understand each other's vulnerabilities. This all pays dividends at the birth because everyone has only one focus- the highest good of mother and baby. What I concentrate on is one birth at a time, with excellence in my practice.