I really enjoyed your post, Tuckers Daughter. It's interesting that we (humans) keep going through trends of fighting for different freedoms (fighting for excellent medical care in pregnancy and birth one day and then fighting for the freedom to give birth in a maple forest the next.) I enjoy us as a curious species who always has to fight fight fight. Maybe it is a good idea to step back a moment and consider how things are actually pretty good for us women in the first world who aren't giving birth in rice paddies and going straight back on with work.... it is obvious by my apearance that I am not African.
But just out of pure curiosity because your story was scary, what do you look like? Why did the midwife think you were of African heritage if you're not? 3 weeks overdue is excessive surely for any woman, no matter what her race?
Also, Women used to die in child birth too frequently due to infections because there was no sanitisation in hospitals or by health care providers. Doctors used to wear their white coats splattered with the dried blood of previous operations as a sign of their experience. Mud and guts lined the floors and walls and medical equipment wasn't sterilised properly.
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