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[quote=Anonymous]I'm 11:30 and probably a couple other places on this thread. I am NOT 12:26 and do not agree with her position. I believe that there should be licensing requirements for midwives because I believe that regulation, training and and standards of care are the best ways that we as consumers have of evaluating a particular practitioner's ability. I think that NARM is a good start, but it's still got a ways to go.

That said, 12:58, I think it's really interesting that you feel there is some kind of home birth agenda on this board. Every time there is a thread about home birth, extremely angry posters seem to come out of the woodwork to tell women who birth at home (and women like me, who had babies at birth centers with midwives) that they're being irresponsible, arrogant, selfish, prioritize having a good birth story over having a healthy baby, etc. That has happened several times in this thread, and it's only 4 pages. I remember the Karen Carr thread and posted there a lot too - how long did that one get? 30 pages? 35?

I think that everyone coming on this board has some kind of personal axe to grind, and that is confusing to me. Why should I care where your baby was born? Why should I care if you had an epidural? Why would we even talk about it unless we both want to talk about it? One of my best friends strongly believes that all babies should be born in hospitals. She told me this once, long after my daughter was born. I felt judged, but I didn't respond, because every time people like me faced with situations like that respond, we get accused of having an agenda.

As for your comment that assuming doctors are out to get midwives being insulting, I agree that it is a blanket insult that ALL doctors are out to get ALL midwives, since that's certainly not true. However, there are doctors who are threatened by midwives, who don't like working with midwife clients, who are rude and condescending to midwife clients who need to transfer their care for whatever reasons. Just as you told the poster you were responding to, I understand that you don't feel this is the way things SHOULD be, but - and I can't emphasize this enough - that is how things sometimes ARE. [/quote]

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