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Originally Posted by starfishing
Anyone with two hands can catch a baby when a birth goes easily and smoothly, but we don't let everyone with two hands call themself an OB or a nurse midwife--we make sure that OBs and midwives have the skills that are needed to assess risk, recognize when intervention is needed, and either make the needed intervention or refer to someone who can. Right now in some cases I think therapist licensing is closer to the "anyone with two hands" end of the spectrum, and it needs to be treated more like the complex, risky profession that it is.
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That's in some sense a very good comprarison. In that sense that I for instance (having given birth to two children, one of them planned at home) absolutely don't think that everyone calling themselves OB or a nurse midwife does have knowledge or experiences to only do the necessary interventions.
If you go in with full trust to the personal then the chances that you get an intervention that you did not really need but some kind of procedure prescribe you anyway are very high. This is so in my country in Europe but according to my knowledge it is even more so in US, where constant baby monitoring via IV during birth is the norm and the rate of C-sections is one of the highest in developing countries.
Sure, maybe it all helps to ensure delivering an alive baby (although in US the death rates during or after birth are the highest in developing countries too), but whether the mother and baby get traumatised during the process - who cares.