Summary: Fewer than ten percent of American women see a midwife during their pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Why is this? What exactly is a midwife anyway? I talk with a nurse-midwife, who happens to be my mother-in-law, about different types of midwives, their role in medicine, and the relationship between midwifery and medical intervention. My mother-in-law helped deliver my daughter, her only grandchild, and no, that wasn’t weird. Related video: The Business of Being Born, produced by Ricki Lake and directed by Abby Epstein, 6 May 2008 American Midwifery
