Yeah! Wow!!! Thanks for sharing the videlo. As I think will be the case with many others, I have stories and thoughts to relate. 

I was born at home in late 30's. Sometime while I was still very young, too young to remember, my mother was at home for my brother's delivery, but he didn't make it. I was told when I was much older that both my mother and the baby were in dire distress. My grandmother was down in bed with the flu and couldn't help our family doctor, so he concentrated on my mother. I have often thought if they had been in a hospital, my brother might have been saved. Mothers didn't go to hospitals for births in those days, though. Maybe, if my grandmother had not been ill and could have helped, the outcome would have been different.

My daughter had C-section with her first, but delivered naturally with 2 others. My own ob-gyn (who delivered that daughter) supported cutting down on C-sections. As for my own experiences w/birthing & hospitals, the 1st was OK as it was a small 2 ward hospital right across the street from my house. Some of that experience was humorous. The second experience was in large, well known hospital in Dallas, which I will not name. The aides there apparently did not understand a breast feeder who already had one child & considered breast feeding so natural. Their fussing about it irritated me, along with a few other incidents. The maternity ward was too crowded, so the care was N.G. I would have been better off at home. I've learned since then from others who had babies at this hospital that birthing and maternal care had improved greatly.

I have heard/read  previously that U.S. statistics on birth mortality are not great.

Hope this day is a good one for you, eFairy!

~~Blessings, prayers 'n cheers, Donna