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One of my sister-in-laws is the family nut. For the first two kids, she went with a midwife and used a doctor for the last one. She's not a nut for using a midwife (actually "birthing coach" for the first one - a polished up unlicensed midwife). She's a nut for doing it more than once and for using them at home and not a hospital.
She has a very small frame, and her first child ended up needing a C-section after 14 hours of labor and 5 hours of pushing. You would think that she would have figured that there was a better-than-average chance of problems with the second one, but no. She used a mid-wife again, but my nephew was stuck, and they had to do an emergency c-section after rushing her to the hospital from home. He was deprived of oxygen for several minutes, but thankfully he doesn't show any signs of problems (other than he's just a mean little boy, but that's more related to being an overly bright middle child).
Her husband finally grew a backbone for the last one and insisted that they go to the hospital for the birth and making sure that his son was delivered by a doctor with a planned c-section, but it was a major battle to get her to agree.
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