Any competent midwife can handle that situation, and one must be within 15 min of a hospital or forget about homebirths. We have a friend whose cord prolapsed and the midwife kept the cord back in her uterus while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. The baby was delivered 40 minutes later (not "seconds"), perfectly healthy. My child's head got stuck in my wife's cervix and the heartrate increased. The midwife calmly use a hand technique and it was over in seconds. We also had a midwife use her hands to turn a breach baby (our prior one) around in my wife's uterus. They are amazing. OBGYNs in hosptials these days are all too often akin to salespeople for C-Sections, and otherwise are useless. Watch TLC "Baby Story" sometime and see how impatient idiot MDs constantly push women to have C-sections if they are 'taking too long'. There is no risk to the baby whatsoever. It's ALL about money and lawyers.
Rubbish. C-sections are not pushed. C-sections are major surgery. TLC Baby Story is a freakin’ TV show.
I was on complete bed rest for the last six weeks of my pregnancy and then hospitalized in the Maternity Observation Unit for a week and a half. They induced me for two days before giving me a C-Section. With my second pregnancy, VBAC was pushed until four and a half weeks before due date. After daily visits to the hospital for Doppler Ultrasounds, and finally an amnio to determine if the lungs were developed enough for safe delivery, there was no longer a choice for VBAC. Four and a half weeks before full term, C-section. Surgery complications (dehissing hematoma) which required the doctor to open me up on my hospital bed, out of a sterile environment, and another eight weeks until wound was healed. After eight weeks of a home care nurse and my husband and mother irrigating and cleaning and packing the wound until it closed, the wound finally closed.
Third pregnancy was easy but we weren’t taking any chances given the other two, lol.
Fourth was a nightmare and epidural for C didn’t work, as I felt them cutting, so they had to put me to sleep/knock me out. It was kind of funny, the conversation...it’s pressure, hell no this is my fourth c section and that is not pressure that is pain, like a knife cutting into me pain, lol.
I will never be convinced that OBs want to perform C sections. They do them because they are medically necessary.