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[quote=Anonymous]I actually live in Nebraska and here’s my take:

1. Nebraska is the only state in the country where it is illegal for CNMs to attend home births. So mothers desiring a homebirth go underground to find lay “midwives” who do home births.

2. There are at least two doctors in Omaha that I know of who will deliver breech births vaginally. Of course I know nothing about this mother’s medical situation, but if she really feared a csection, she could have at least consulted with these doctors.

3. The “midwife” in this case is a total fraud. Here she is on a podcast, explaining some cockamamie legal theory that what she’s doing as a “midwife” in Nebraska is ok because she and her clients are in a “private membership association” that is somehow immune from regulation:

http://www.drstuspodcast.com/blogs/dr-stus-podcast-nebraska-birth-keeper/

4. This all happened in mid-June. Her Nebraska birth keeper Facebook page continued to have cheery posts and updates after this birth. She didn’t shut herself down.

5. Doing a home birth breech birth (or twins) is kind of the ultimate badge of prestige for these lay midwives, so she very likely knew and was pushing the envelope in hopes all would be fine and this would be her badge of glory.

6. I read in an article somewhere that when paramedics arrived, she was performing an episiotomy on the mom.

My heart really breaks for the mom here. Sure, she made the wrong choice but she did so in the sincere belief that she was protecting herself and her child.

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