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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] An important question: would you rather have a more qualified provider who may be more inclined to give you a C-section if they are concerned with your labor, or a less qualified provider who might not appropriately respond to a critical situation when necessary by doing needed interventions because they view the trajectory of your labor as “normal” or don’t want to transfer your care? [/quote]

I chose #3 for my two births: Qualified midwives who would respond to a critical situation when necessary by having a qualified OB do needed interventions. Of course it would be dangerous to have a midwife unwilling to transfer care when necessary, just as it would be dangerous to have a GP unwilling to transfer a patient to a specialist when necessary. 
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It’s nice to think that midwives always transfer care when they are supposed to but I’m living proof that they don’t and I know a number of other women on the same boat. Until CNMs divorce themselves from the CPMs and CMs and stop making natural physiologic childbirth the most important aspect of care, and remove some of the dogmatic views that they entrench in women during their training, the profession will continue to have bad apples who don’t know their scope. Unlike PAs, midwives are all about their own professional autonomy.

But sure, 60 hour poster, your kid didn’t get brain damage so I’m sure you feel like you made the best choice. But I bet you would have sued your midwife if anything was wrong with your baby. [/quote]

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