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[quote=Anonymous]12:54, I think that the attitude is more that you be committed to ATTEMPTING a drug-free birth. There are plenty of OB practices and more than a few midwives who will be perfectly fine with you going in with a "wait and see" policy regarding pain relief during labor. Wisdom is one of the practices in the area who strongly urge a more natural approach to childbirth without actively being crunchy homebirth types.

I myself (this is 9:59 btw) was actually pretty solidly the crunchy homebirth type as a homebirth baby myself with a midwife in the family, but when I chose to have a baby with someone who had no experience with that sort of thing who was generally new-dad antsy about the whole thing, I opted for a "best of both worlds" option in a midwife/birth center combination. If he had been less comfortable, it's entirely likely that we'd've ended up with Whitney at that time, but since he was not attached to a hospital, just to the idea of some sort of facility, we ended up at Special Beginnings.

You are right that a large part of the midwifery movement is based in better, more respectful evidence-based care, but it would be pretty naive to suggest that a big component is not also an interest in if not an actual commitment to medication-free labor and birth. Obviously this commitment is not exclusive to midwifery, nor do all midwives share this commitment, but they are absolutely linked. [/quote]

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