LOL I have hijacked my own thread!!!!

Birth Attendants are not medically trained - we can catch them if no-one else is there and able but normally in a hospital a midwife will be closeby. I heard one story of a mum at home in the bath and babe came far too quick and the Birth Attendant had to catch - she was a single mum so who else would have done it?!

I guess you could ask the hospital/midwife for permission for someone else to catch baby, but I would assume if it wasn't the attendant, the mother would want dad to catch baby...

Oh and I use the word 'catch' as opposed to deliver. No-one does any work birthing that baby apart from mum