Midwife vs Doctor Reviews

Midwife vs doctor reviews...

It is a well known fact that even though - 96% of American women choose an obstetrician for their prenatal care - midwives have a much better track record. As a matter of fact, in all studies ever done midwifery care has proven superior.

It is true that for most women, there is a sense of safety with a physician. Indeed we have been effectively brainwashed through years of propaganda.

Truly.

Did you know that in much of the world, a midwife is actually the primary and sole birth attendant? Did you also know that the World Health Organization - WHO - has repeatedly asked the United States to return to a gentler model of prenatal care through midwifery? Obviously, this plea has fallen on deaf ears as most of the medical community still tries to get rid of the profession of midwife all together.

So when presented with the data, how do doctors defend their record?

Doctor Reviews #1

This statement is false.

When outcomes for doctors and midwives are compared, the same variables are used for both groups. This means that the group of people, the risk level, etc. are the same for doctors as well as midwives.

This means the data is compared apples to apples.

It is true that midwives would like to specialize in low risk pregnancies. However, they have often found themselves dealing with high risk patients when doctors were not available or just unwilling to take a specific patient.

For infant and maternal mortality rates, physician attended births for all risk levels are 2 to 26 times higher than for midwives.

No, this is NOT a typo!

This extreme difference can only be explained by the way doctors' practice compared to the way midwives practice.

Midwives focus on health and how to maintain health mainly through nutrition and the support of natural physiology - the way the body was designed to function. They "work" with your body rather than against it.

It seems to make all the difference, does it not?

Doctor Reviews #2

Doctors do encounter more complications.

However, it has been proven that most of the complications encountered by doctors are also caused by doctors or the hospital.

Doctor Reviews #3

This is false.

When reporting statistics, the results are attributed to the primary care-giver.

So if the primary care-giver is a midwife with a bad outcome, midwives get the bad outcome statistic not doctors.

Doctor Reviews #4

This is false.

Midwives are very conscientious in reporting their birth statistics and there has never been any documentation otherwise.

Doctor Reviews #5

This is false.

This one usually fools the best of us. It seems so logical.

We all know the horrible stories of women dying in childbirth at the turn of the century.

It is indeed true than the infant and maternal mortality have declined over time - although the maternal mortality has gone up in recent years...

...Thanks to an increase in c-sections. A c-section rate by the way which CANNOT be attributed to midwives.

Obstetricians should not get the credit for these declining rates of maternal and infant deaths. The reason? No data supports such a conclusion.

Here is a story. Remember hearing about childbed fever? This was a huge maternal killer. Come to find out that "back then" doctors went from surgeries or autopsies to births without washing their hands and THEY gave women the germs which killed them.

In 1795, a doctor by the name of Alexander Gordon from Aberdeen, Scotland made this supposition to his colleagues.

In 1843, 48 years later, Oliver Wendell Holmes published The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever in which he concluded:

And, he suggested that hand-washing, clean clothing, and avoidance of autopsies by those aiding birth would prevent the spread of puerperal fever.

How about that?

He was hailed a hero. Well, not quite. Holmes' conclusions were ridiculed by many.

In 1847 - (another) 4 years later - Dr. Semmelweiss did an experiment that proved that doctors' hands were full of germs.

He too was scorned by his peers. It was not until the turn of the century that hands washing and antiseptic techniques were widely accepted. So should doctors take the credit for eradicating childbed fever?

We think not.

The outcomes for midwives have always been superior in every time period and every continent. There are no exceptions!

Indeed, more babies are saved today than before. HOWEVER, the credit does not go to OBGYNs but rather to neonatologists - newborn baby doctors.

Doctor Reviews #6

This is false.

OBGYNs have the highest rate of brain damaged babies, followed by family practitioners and last midwives. They also have a much higher incidence of birth injuries.

Conclusion to Doctor Reviews

Midwife vs doctor which is best...

...by now you know the answer.

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