[Rodney King]

I noticed the midwives bumpersticker. Did she make your wife stay at home until like 15 minutes before birth, and not let her get an epidural?

[the_devils_advocate_666]

The last birth was some sort of "water birth"... She tell's me it's a wonderful thing.

[xsrdx]

I noticed the midwives bumpersticker

Actually my wife used a midwife when we had our son, and we had an incredibly terrific experience.

I was a wreck, my wife was of course mildly incapacitated, but our midwife was in COMPLETE control- she knew her stuff, backwards and forwards. Not a complicated birth, but no cakewalk either, and she handled it like she had done it 4000 times, which of course she had.

I have nothing but good things to say about midwives for uncomplicated pregnancies. I helped deliver my son, and I kept the umbilical scissors I used to cut the cord - try that with your OB!