She always asked my permission before she touched me. She always discussed the various tests with me before she sent me to a lab to have them done. She discussed the pros and cons of everything with me. She was respectful, thoughtful, knowledgeable, professional. Obstetrics is not about treating normal pregnancies and deliveries, it's about treating problems and complications.
Most women have pregnancies that are normal, uneventful and require no medical intervention.
The world needs both OBs and midwives. The battle to keep midwifery legal is not about whether midwifery is a safe option for pregnant women. It's about economics. It's about hospitals and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology wanting to protect the monopoly they have in a very lucrative business. That did not include an epidural, or narcotics, fetal monitoring or anything else.