Labor and Delivery nurse from 1988-2015...We NEVER left the side of a patient in her second stage ( pushing) ...and frequently had 2 nurses in the room. We’d call the doc the we saw the head ( plus 3 station)...I don’t understand this article unless they mean the DOCS need to be more present in second stage?
Bless you ... looking back, it seems like the nurses did most of the care when I was having my kids. The youngest came so fast that one of the nurses shouted down the hall, “Stop Dr. (so and so)! I’m not delivering this baby on my own!”