Remember Cara Mulhahn, the midwife prominently featured in The Business of Being Born?
Recently, a family was shown on the Today Show in a segment titled “The Perils of Home Birth” where they spoke of how they hired her, and she labored a long time, and then her baby was born still. That family is now suing.
You bet your bippy that the media is having a field day with this. Take a look at Celebrity Midwife Cara Muhlhahn Sued for Negligence Resulting in Stillbirth
Other articles are out there too, if you google her name.
Perhaps she made a mistake. I understand she let the mother labor for days before going to the hospital – although I know many women who have labored for days and done just fine (I am one of those women.) But maybe she missed something. Or, maybe it just happened – as these things often do. If it happened in the hospital, we wouldn’t even hear about it. We would assume that everything possible was done and that it was meant to be.
Something’s got to give. Every time one side pushes, the other side pushes back. Those of us who are in favor of midwifery care and ensuring that women have access to the safest care in the style of their choosing cannot back down – we need to get stronger until our voices are heard. We can’t let all midwives get lynched for something that may have simply be an act of God.
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