Is it true that obstetricians rarely see natural births?
Ha! That’s a bunch of baloney too. You know, not everybody is a white American middle class woman. This is the way these people imagine all the people in the hospital are. The fact is that if you work in any large hospital you see women from other cultures who have different ideas of how birth should be conducted. You see many women who come in late in labor, way too late to get an epidural. I’ve delivered women in the emergency room. Many of my colleagues have delivered in the parking lot. We see plenty of unmedicated births, and some of us, myself included, have had unmedicated births. So, it’s just a bunch of baloney that obstetricians don’t know what an unmedicated birth looks like.
