The History Of The Midwife

This post is one made to serve and inform. The story of the persecution of the midwife is a sad and sordid one and is a tale that needs to be told.

Way back in the days, when we all lived natural and we all had shiny white teeth as signs of our superior health and well being , midwives were invented to aid women in the birth experience. They offered their services for money or trade in exchange, a midwife would provide candles, incense and a birth orgasm to the mother --and sometimes the father.

As the years passed, some midwives began to practice what might actually be considered real medicine--they would later turn into OBGYNs and Certified Nurse Midwives--but we don't care about them. I want to tell the story of the women who kept their minds pure and NATURAL.

An early statue of midwife led male- nursing

Throughout the years these Midwives who we would today call Direct Entry Midwives (DEM) and Certified Practicing Midwives (CPM) in the States, were highly persecuted and harmed for their practices.

In the 1600s a whole gaggle of midwives were hanged in Salem. Many historians thought at first they were witches, but newer evidence points out that they were indeed midwives.

Midwives on trial in Salem

 Several years down the road, during the industrial age, a group of midwives were lured into what they believed to be a hospital full of women being subjected to the Cascade of Interventions (TM). The doors were then locked and the building was set on fire. Many midwives died as a result and some jumped to their deaths in an attempt to not burn to death.



Midwives outside: The Midwife Shirtwaist Fires

Finally we come to this day and age and midwives are still being hunted down and harangued for their practices.
Dr. Amy, a skeptical OB demands that all midwives go to Nursing school and get qualifications through the government. She also requests that they have malpractice insurance! And on we revolt!!



Midwives revolt at the launching of The Skeptical OB blog by Dr. Amy