Thank you for your response. I agree with your comment to the extent that childbirth can be scary; though it need not be. While complications can and do occur, the reality is that the majority of labors and births are low risk. Childbirth in and of itself is not pathologic; yet it is treated as such within the US health system. Much of the reason that midwives have excellent outcomes is because we view labor and birth through a lens of normality rather than pathology, recognizing it as one of the many processes in a woman’s reproductive life. This leads us to also acknowledge (and respect) the power and efficiency of the human body; a woman’s body knows how to labor and give birth. Interfering with the body’s own processes – whether that be with something like induction of labor for no medical indication, non-indicated artificial augmentation of labor, holding women to outdated labor curve times, performing cesareans without a medical indication – any number of ways that this can occur – can (and does) result in less than optimal outcomes.