There is a great article published this week outlining many of the benefits of having a midwife attend your birth.  The first and most important is that it is safer for you and your baby if you are healthy and low risk (close to 90% of pregnancies can be cared for by midwives).  This means that low-risk births attended by midwives have equal or better outcomes.  The to add some icing to the cake, it doesn’t cost as much!

I know that culturally to Americans, this makes no sense at first glance.  We are programmed culturally to respond that when we throw more money and gadgets at a given situation, we feel  like it has to be “better.”  But in the case of childbirth, less is actually more.  The less we interfere with high tech measures and the more low-tech emotional and physical support we give women,  we have more healthy moms and babies.

Check it out here:   Midwives: A Safe, Cost-Saving Alternative

And here: The Milbank Foundation Outlines how midwifery care has better outcomes and lower costs.