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Midwives Don't:

• Midwives don't tell you where and how to have your baby.

• Midwives don't force decisions on you. You decide what is best for you and your family.

• Midwives don't perform instrumental or surgical births.

• Midwives don't restrict your movements while you are in labor.

• Midwives don't restrict your food and fluid intake while you are in labor.

• Midwives don't perform episiotomies unless the baby is in serious distress.

• Midwives don't take your baby away from you after the birth.

• Midwives don't abandon you after the birth with no follow up care.

• Midwives don't give your baby bottles of sugar water or formula