True enough. Also, it may be that this community has more types of births that naturally end in the babies' deaths, for the types of defects that others may seek abortions for. IOW, women knowingly carry sick babies to term and let the Lord determine the outcome, or they do not go through a zillion screening tests to discover abnormalities, since they would not abort anyway. Overall, these problems are probably pretty rare and the community is healthier than average.
She surely knows her business, and it being persecuted for honesty. She is a responsible person, letting the hospital know what drugs the patient had been given. Otherwise they may have inadvertantly OD'd her. It really is a testament to her skills that no mothers have been lost. There are a variety of problems that can put the mother at risk, and obviously she knows how to handle them, which includes knowing when a trip to the hospital is in order. It seems to me that the midwife horror stories happen when outside help is not considered an option. I wonder how many of those refusals are the parents' wishes, and not because of incompetence by the midwife.
What would have happened if the midwife said nothing about the Pitocin, and the mother died from complications directly related to the hospital's lack of knowledge? The patient's health was obviously more important to the midwife, than getting in trouble for 'practicing medicine without a license". She had to know it was not exactly legal, but I suspect that most of the time, the hospital staff leave the midwives alone. Some zero-tolerance do-gooder liberal nurse or doctor ratted her out, that's my opinion.
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Ps 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
Pr 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.