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Absolutely wild ride of an article. Unusually long for The Guardian, but totally worth the read, regardless of your personal interest in birthing methods. Went in expecting medical woohoo beliefs, left with a better understanding of the growth and formation of radical online movements. Make sure to read to the end!
Currently anticipating the inevitable sequel once they get hit with manslaughter charges.
There have been midwives in Australia prosecuted for not transferring to hospital, and this lunatic woman in Canada who was dismissed from practice but still attends births, and recently a baby she attended died. I kind of get it in the US simply because of lack of public health care probably driving this due to cost, but in countries with public health care and so many midwife options it's insane. I'm glad finally someone is shining a light on this, perhaps it'll save some babies. A nurse on the medicine subreddit once said she had seen complications and deaths from home birth and freebirth that are in the triple digits.
Even when they do successfully get baby out, there's SO much they don't know, and when they take them to ER because baby is breathing funny (because their lungs are wet) or came out stunned or they didn't wrap them up warmly and now they're cold, or they turn blue because mom has untreated gestational diabetes and their sugar has crashed or whatever. It can be temporary but it's just so not necessary.