Midwives or Doctors?

I. Introduction

• interviews
• c-section research
• videos
• midwives do a better job than doctors

II. Interviews

• doctor's are not there all the time: in birth story #1, she called the doctor at 3:30am but meets the couples at 8:00am; birth story #4, she screamed in pain as the nurse tried to find the doctor
  
• the woman has to go to the doctor: birth story #4, she went to the hospital at 11pm but got sent back home
• doctor's disregard what the women want: birth story #4, she had specified that she did not want any observers but the doctor brought in a medical student
• midwives encourage natural birth: release hormones, causing less pain and babies breathe better (Fine)
  

III. C-section research

• % of c-sections: in 2006, 31.1 compared to standard %
  
• Fine: cause injuries
  
• Fine: increase death rates
  

IV. Videos

• midwives are supporters: giraffes need a virtual midwife; Stacy Fine was "encouraged by midwives"
  
• doctors center themselves: in Monty Python,doctors just want to impress admin, doctors did not notice that the patient was missing, they did not allow the mother to figure out the gender of the baby because it took away their time, and they left the patient in the room after the process
  
• doctors induce labor: according to Ina May, they "finger rape", using their finger to push the hole open
• midwives allow the women to have power over birth: midwives go to the woman's home (BoBB)
• doctors do their job for the money: they charge 13k-14k for normal birth with no complications while midwives charge only 4k that includes postnatal care, they do their job, then leaves for another job (BoBB)
  
• doctors do not allow the women to have power over birth: the women must be strapped down causing her unable to move (BoBB)