I know intimately that when a choice is made outside of the mainstream, it is a choice made with courage, and great care. I would think that doctors need to be carefully supervised by midwives, hardly the other way around. It is due time a grandiose statement is made by the midwifery community, dictating in the most maternalistic tones possible the proper conduct doctors must exhibit while in the attendance of birthing women. This statement must include the midwives' new resolution that doctors need to be supervised by midwives in at least fifty births before they are qualified to attend women alone. And perhaps when women see that their own beloved doctors must be so fastidiously and rigorously monitored and trained before being permitted to view their birthing processes, women will finally believe that their births are indeed sacred, and in need of the most love and reverence affordable.
Most doctors are afraid of birth.
It would seem that most doctors are so afraid that birth must remain within a clinical, predictable, controllable model in order to seem rational and safe. I'm more of the mind to just have women pull the obstetrical practices out from under the feet of doctors who refuse to lay down the knives and leave women alone. I would love nothing more than women erupting in revolutionary fervor and storming the streets in angry protest of vaginas and bellies being cut needlessly open. And I, as are an increasing number of women, choose to give birth in freedom, dignity and sanctity- away from medical coercion, and the bizarrely intense focus of doctors and others who can think of nothing more riveting than what I choose to do with my vagina, and whom I permit to observe it in childbirth. All of the material in this website is copyrighted.