My goodness BG, that's actually quite horrifying!
Lol at your mum Astro

My mum read some books about pregnancy and parenting - she still has them, very 70s - but didn't do any antenatal classes and didn't have any real idea about birth or breastfeeding.
All three of us were straightforward births - no drugs or other interventions. Not sure whether she had doctors there or not. We were all post-dates - 17, 7 & 12 days past the EDDs.