Hospital-based maternity services are inappropriate for healthy mothers who don't plan on using drugs or anesthesia. Normal birth doesn't normally require medical services. For healthy mothers, hospital are particularly dangerous hotels, dangerous schools for new mothers, and dangerous social opportunities for new families. While cesareans surgery is safer now than ever before , it is still many times more risky than vaginal births . Preventing unnecessary cesarean surgeries prevents maternal mortality .
Midwifery management prevents cesarean surgeries.
This is not an abstract conversation. She died two days later of infection. Experimental Medicine Obstetrics for normal birth has always been experimental medicine in that common interventions and treatment modalities were never subjected to scientific proof before becoming routine protocols. Without any scientific data to back up such a move, obstetricians replaced the time-honored principles of midwifery with a surgical specialty. But there is no evidence-based rational for physicians as birth attendants, hospitalizing laboring women, prepping, IV, confinement to bed, using narcotics, anesthesia, operative are interventions, etc.