good reason for increased midwife use....

what i don't understand is why he would refuse a vitamin k shot for his child.  hep b, I understand...

all of that should have been discussed with and approved by the doctor during his wife's prenatal exams, long before she went into labor.

Why would a baby even need a hepatitis shot?

if a parent is infected or CYA for the hospital, in case a staff member is infected.  hospitals don't test people prior to hiring.

if a parent is infected or CYA for the hospital, in case a staff member is infected.  hospitals don't test people prior to hiring.

They don’t test staff but they are trying to force the parents to be tested.  
the fact thR these officers are wearing street clothes and no gloves is how any one gets covid.  Then touching doors at donut shop and not washing hands. Many working at hospitals have long painted nails and poor hygiene. 

Look at Babie Alfie who was murdered by English hospital. 

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/disturbing-video-from-philadelphia-hospital/

Fortunately hospitals are "your mileage may vary".

I just took my daughter in to an emergency care center in the wee hours of the morning, because she was having some breathing difficulties. She just needed a nebulizer and "albuterol" to relax/open her bronchial passageways -- pretty much the whole family had bronchitis.  Fortunately we weren't terrified, because her big sister had received this treatment (once) when she was 2, many years ago. So we knew "of" this treatment. Sure enough, we parents were right -- our daughter felt much better after a nebulizer treatment.

My point: when I was awakened with the "good news" I had to take our daughter in, my first thought was "OH CRAP" because I didn't know what to expect. Mandatory COVID testing? General COVID over-reacting and paranoia? How much would I have to fight for my daughter?

Turns out we only had to wear masks. That was it. The clinic was part of the broader "Christus Santa Rosa" hospital system. Almost at the end of the visit, as an afterthought, they asked me if I wanted COVID testing "because some parents, you know..." and I said "no thanks" and that was the end of it. They didn't push at all.

I bet large sums of money my experience would have been far different in New York City or some other place. Fortunately, a hospital/clinic in a mid-size town in Texas named "Christus Santa Rosa" was a pretty decent place, even amidst all this COVID hysteria.

As I've said many times -- my part of Texas is like the tip of a mountain. No guarantee that it, too won't be covered by the flood eventually. But it will be one of the LAST places, not one of the FIRST, to fall into chaos/collapse/tyranny/etc. Choosing such a place is wise, in my opinion.

A newborn doesn’t need a vaccine for hepatitis unless the mother has it or could possibly have it.  If the mother is or was an injecting drug user, prostitute, or is promiscuous.  The disease is transmissible by blood or sɛҳuąƖ contact.  
Vitamin K is protective against excessive bleeding and somewhat, against jaundice.  There should not have been a commotion over this.  It sounds as if advance preparation was not made.
Sometimes, a C-section is necessary to save the life of the mother and/or baby.  I agree, too many of them are performed.  But let’s not “throw out the baby with the bath water!” 🙄
Home births with a midwife were certainly the norm in this country up until about 1900.  Birth was one of the first of normal, natural occurrences to be medicalized.  Now, everything in that category is treated as an illness in need of medical supervision and intervention.  Think about it!  Even conception is a medical procedure, IVF, check ups and prenatal tests during pregnancy and childbirth, early infancy-multiple vaccinations, and for some, circuмcision, all done before leaving the hospital!  
“Well Child” checkups, vaccines and more vaccines, lots of antibiotics prescribed, hit or miss every time a child gets sick, although the trend is, thank God, away from this due to drug resistance.  More than half of childhood sicknesses are from viruses never identified.  God made us with this wonderful thing called the immune system.  If given a healthful diet and lifestyle, it usually removes pathogens all on its own.  We also have simple medical tests that can diagnose illnesses via study of a blood sample, urine, sputum, nasal secretion, fecal matter, or secretions from the reproductive system. 
We’ve medicalized the academic environment, puberty, adolescence—-rebellion is “normal”—-sex from pre-puberty to death, adulthood, (gotta get tested for all those nasty STDs, all those cancers!), pre-menopause, menopause, both female and male, (get your viagra), then geriatric medicine, medicine, and more medicine because we’re in denial that we’re never going to feel like we’re 30 again, the orthopedic surgeries, meds, and devices to combat arthritic joints, thinning bones, etc.  We die under medical supervision or as a result of medical intervention, (known as murder, or more politely, euthanasia). There has to be a harvesting of organs before we can die.  After death, comes the autopsy if we happen to die under certain circuмstances, and dealing with the body, a whole new industry! 
Medical workers no longer believe the Hippocratic Oath, or, to do no harm.