doesn’t pass the smell test. Docs treat all sorts of kids with immoral parents.(drugs, not married, incompetent, don’t pay their bills) and this is especially true for pediatricians.
However, note that part about the “midwife”?
This is the clue. I suspect it wasn’t a fully trained midwife, but a self trained granny midwife.
A lot of times, if the kid is sick after such a delivery, and they bring the kid to you, if something goes wrong, they blame the doc for the infection, hemorrhage because the kid wasn’t given vitamin K, or gonorrhea of the eyes that weren’t treated with routine antibiotic drops (or mom screened for STD’s). You end up with a lawsuit and a lot of bad publicity when the kid’s illness (or death) was the midwife’s problem.
I used to work in an area where self trained “midwives” did deliveries at home. I would gladly treat those delivered by one midwife, who was competent and experienced with complications..., but after recognizing a second midwife was incompetent (and dirty) I worried about treating babies she delivered...She later killed a baby who didn’t breathe right away by doing cpr with so much force she lacerated the kid’s liver.
Wow!