Half?! WTF! I've never heard that statistic; but I'm not a midwife either.
It's purely anecdotal and not literal, the point being, it's a common occurrence and not the emergency it's made out to be. The 80 yr old lady has over 3000 births all over the world. She's seen her share and has demonstrated to me she knows what she's talking about. Just my experience.
I know nuccal cord can be a life threatening emergency for a newborn but a midwife that knows her way around a crisis is golden. I've worked with nurses that knew more medicine and had more common sense that a lot of the docs writing the orders.
a midwife that knows her way around a crisis is golden.
Bingo. I'll take experience over book learning everytime.
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