So what about an OB? An obstetrician is a trained surgeon. They go to school to learn how to handle complications and how to fix them. Basically, they know how to fix the tears and ruptures that might happen but they don't know how to prevent them. As I've said before, most OB's will have never seen a natural birth. They don't really understand the basics of labor and delivery. What they know is to look for problems and then fix it. Often times they will perceive something that is natural and confuse it for a problem and intervene. We need obstetricians but we don't need them to assist in a low risk pregnancy when there are no problems.
Ideally, midwives would be a pregnant woman's first visit. If there are no issues then the midwife would continue with the prenatal care and into labor. The OB needs to work along side a midwife so when problems arise they can step in and assist. It's just like any other medical issue. You go to your doctor with a problem and if it's serious then they refer you to a specialist for further care. That is the way midwifes and OB's should be working. Many other countries work this way. At some point though someone said that giving birth was an illness and should be taken care of by a specialist. If giving birth is an illness then so is when every woman's period starts! I don't know about you but when that happened I didn't go running to a specialist to find out what to do, I ran to my mommy! Both are natural occurrences that a woman's body knows how to handle. A midwife is trained for the natural occurrences, they understand the natural process the body must go through for baby to be born. They learn to recognize when things are not following the natural process and will work through prevention or if need be to contact the person that can fix it. Problems do arise and there needs to be someone out there that can help when it happens but if there is no problem then why treat it like a problem?
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