Why choose a midwife, isn't that a bit old-fashioned? Yes, and no. Women have helped women give birth since the beginning of time. It has been only in the last 100 or so years that doctors, mostly male, have dominated the birth industry. It is interesting to note that as sanitation and nutrition improved (not as medical intervention has increased) over the centuries, so has birth safety. When doctors first were involved in childbirth, the infant and maternal mortality rates soared. This was largely because doctors were not as diligent in their cleanliness as midwives, and some would even go directly from doing autopsies to delivering babies without washing their hands! Adding doctors to routine childbirth caused a setback in the improvement in infant and maternal mortality that the midwives had experienced. Had they not gotten involved in birth, our infant and maternal mortality rates would be much lower than they are today.

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