Good info!
I was so annoyed the other day, the director of paramedics at our uni was giving an introduction, by discussing some of the cases students had been on, obviously playing for laughs (way to promote respect and understanding) anyway one of them was a homebirth, where the (implied crazy) woman didn't want the paramedics to cut the cord, she just wanted to be checked out, and the implication was that this practice was really gross and dangerous.
I felt sorry for the woman and a bit saddened by it.
ANother one was a woman, who didn't want pain relief when she was in labour, the implication being that if she just took it like a normal person and stayed quiet it would make everyones life easier. lol, well apparently she was laying into the student paramedic so this may have been understandable