[Publius]

There’s another aspect we’ve lost.

If you watch an old western, it’s the town doc who jumped in his buckboard to deliver the baby. In real life it was the local midwife who delivered the child. The town doc was called in only if there were complications.

In the early 20th Century the medical profession decided to put midwives out of business. They did so by lobbying for changes to state laws but also through the media. Representatives of medical lobbying groups went so far as to sit down with Hollywood studio bosses to ask for changes to scripts to hand delivery of a baby to the doctor, not the midwife.

Recently the profession of midwife has returned in some states but only if trained by medical professionals like nurses.

[John4.11]

3:15 prayer time coming up. Please join in.

[Marmolade]

Prayer time. 3:15 Eastern.
Join in with prayers for our country and FRens.

My eyes are ever on the LORD, for only he will release my feet from the snare.
Psa.25:15

[Steve Van Doorn]

Wet nurse and midwives.
Yes. I forgotten about midwives they where extremely important.
The names along would make libs go "REEEE!!"

[little jeremiah]

I know of mothers who delivered with midwives who were not professional nurses or otherwise “authorized”. There are underground midwives, maybe some states are not so horrible.

[Axenolith]

Guild Socialism at it’s best...