re: #467 Simply Sarah

To a degree. Then you realize that like 1% of all births historically resulted in the death of the mother and then the perspective changes again.

I took a midwifery class, once. They had a chapter where you read about all kinds of things that could go wrong in delivery, and they all went, “Do this, do that, do the other thing, and if that’s not working, call the MD and schedule a C-section.”

I wondered aloud what you did if you didn’t have that option, back in the golden olden days. The woman I was studying with said, “Call the priest for Last Rites.”