Wells, it's so good to have you around.  Please come by more often.  Much more often.

pALEPHx wrote:

Oh, thank you so much for ALL three parts. Next time, set the midwife on fire and it'll be worth watching.

Tsk, where is the honoring of the place you came from? Really now, this is someones mother. What if it was yours up here on the internets for all to see?

My mother would never have done something so esoteric or purportedly "natural" to have produced me, nearly forty years ago. I'm pretty sure she wanted the drugs.

Besides, who really wants to give birth in a $12.99 kiddie pool from Walmart? I'd want marble, alabaster, and a heaping load of prescription smack. Up until the early part of the last century, you had more women dying in childbirth from complications that medicine didn't even know how to handle. Do you really want to be rushed from your "magic bath" to the ER because you had a breach birth or an abrupted placenta? Midwives are quaint, but gimme the damn epidural.

Dmtdust wrote:

You know weird this reads? Step back a second, and read what you wrote.

I read it twice before actually posting, as I often do. What strikes you as the weirdest of it?

pALEPHx wrote:

Midwives are quaint,

Tell that to my girl who spent 8 years in school or internships including a $225,000 ( not including expenses) graduate degree at an Ivy Leauge school in midwifery. She is fully certified in high risk deliveries and has had jobs training residents in such