His wife is trained as a medically-alert midwife, not able to exercise her trade in Illinois for lack of nursing degree, but guiding fathers ansd mothers through the legally allowed decisions of the birthing parents to deliver at home (as she did). The oldest will finish his PhD this summer, having been offered by three universities for all-expense-paid post-graduate studies in view of his intellectual superiority and accomplisments for the B. S. Eng. degree. And I could goon about his junior brothers and sisters.
All solid, saved fundamental independent Baptist Christians, BTW. Daily morning worship for all.
Fairy tale? No. A matter of intelligent choice.
Oh, and also believers in Biblical and scientific creation doctrine.
No one was vaccinated until adults when foreign travel and/or military service required it. The next younger brother will also receive his OCS lieutenancy this summer, on Illinois' top tier in the collegiate Ranger training competitive team. His older sissters have been serving in Central America missionary work for about two years. More stories are in the making, with no incidences of life-changing infections.
Maybe this is all just a Providential evasion of popularized statistics? Eh?
but then I am old enough to have seen measles and polio. And in Africa I saw children die of measles, tetanus and whooping cough.
As for home births, 90 per cent of women do fine. It is the ten percent that give you trouble. Eclampsia, retained placenta, twins, malposition, nuchal cord, and post partum hemorrhage. In the UK, they had “flying squad” ambulances with blood for women who hemorrhaged in home births. And sometimes you get mom bleeding out and a kid not breathing at the same time.
My daughter-in-law un-degreed midwife published a guide for the home-birthing process entitled "Childbirth: An Athletic Event" designed to develop the committed couple to physical, mental, and spiritual development and unity for the event.
Of course, it does make provision for providing professional medical backup in case the birthing goes awry. The intent is for the husband to actually perform the delivery at home, with the midwife-trained guide at his elbow guiding his pre-rehearsed actions.
That is how her ten children were born--at home. Without an obstetrician.
How do you think Jesus was born? In a germ-free operating room? With early vaccinations lined up for Him?