Look freeangel,
I pay my bills, don’t expect anyone to pick up the pieces of my life. 92% of homebirthers give birth at home with NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER. You as a taxpayer should be much more concerned about our conversion to socialized medicine and paying for the abomination of hospital birth with all of its bells and whistles and useless interventions and protocols.
Talk about a straw man. The whole system is set up to rob families of financial solvency and use as many medical interventions as possible to cut and drug mother and baby from each other, when most women if properly trained and educated could easily give birth without the surgery. Some American hospitals have an 80% C section rate. Do you honestly think all of those surgeries are required for the health of the mother?
Jenny
I absolutely agree with you that there are way too many C-sections. What I AM saying is that a large majority of them are done to cover the Dr. butt in case anything is wrong with the baby(besides a large number being done for the “convenience” of parents who want to have their child on a certain day). I’m afraid that much of the high cost of medical care, interventions, etc. is all being done for this reason. I worked with a nurse anesthestist who was 27 when she got pregnant. No hx. of anything unusual and the Dr. did not recommend an amniocentesis. She then had a Down’s baby and sued for all he was worth because he hadn’t done the amnio. Medical professionals are damned if they do and damned if they don’t use “interventions”. What would you recommend?