Not only would I choose midwifery led care again, but when I recently found out that I was pregnant again, my first call went to my midwife (well after telling family and a few friends). And I am ecstatic that most likely, I will have the same midwife looking after me that was with me all through my first pregnancy, DD's birth and after.
When I tell people about the post natal support I got from my midwife, their jaws drop. They can't believe that it is possible for your midwife to spend 4-5 hours with you every day (in your own home) to make sure that BFing is working out and to help wherever necessary. If more women got this type of support, not only would we reduce the incidence of unnecessary c/s, but also increase the success of BFing.
I cannot imagine giving birth any other way.
OBs are wonderful and necessary for complicated births and emergencies. Midwives specialise in "normal" births, which is the vast majority of births. But when you talk to people around you who have been through the normal hospital system (especially some private hospitals), you could get the impresion that most births are high risk and very complicated, life threatening even. I wonder what these people think has happened in our evolution to warrant that view that we have lost the ability to birth our own offspring.
I am looking forward to having the same people attend to this birth that were there for Maya's birth: My midwife, DH & my mum. Just this time, DD will be there, too. I am actually really looking forward to the labour and birth part. The way I have experienced it, it was amazing. Painful, yes, but magical.

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