Does anyone else have any...opinions about crossing traditional gender barriers in birthing situations?
Yeah, my opinion is that this is the silliest thread to be posted to FR in a looooonnnnggg time :)
But that’s just me :)
It’s as close as you’re gonna get...
Pretty cool helping bring life into this world.
2010 huh?
Huh? Midwifery? On FR?
I saw a nurse midwife all the way through my second pregnancy. When the time came, an obstetrician I didn’t know delivered the baby. I suppose he was the one unlucky enough to be on call on New Years.
Oh, and the midwife was nurse Ratchet. No kidding.
Male obstetricians deliver babies all the time. Why would a male midwife be any different? The only question is the person’s qualifications and level of caring.
There was a real tom-turkey of an OB on shift when I went to the hospital for my 7th delivery. (Telling a woman in labor that she shouldn’t have “gotten herself pregnant” is pretty crass.) Fortunately, a decent person arrived for the next shift and actually delivered the baby.
Up until the mid eighties in the US most of the obstetricians in the US were male.
My birthing experience was a nightmare from one end to the other. The O.B. nurse was so impatient to get me into bed she closed and locked my cosmetics case with my thumb still in it. The nurses were all bitches.
I watched from the waiting room.
Yeah, I'm old fashioned kind of guy.