Midwifery

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This follow on from a discussion I was having yesterday on the differences between the American and UK health care systems.

I remember about a year or so ago I was told that Midwifery was illegal or at least not a generally accepted practice in America. I have also noticed that midwifery is listed as an interest on a lot of the alternative or holistic medicine communities.

It this true? It seems a bit weird if it is. We've always had midwives in the UK, my mother's a trained midwife (though she doesn't work as one, she's a renal specialist medical nurse), how do babies get delivered if it's illegal?

X posted-sorry!