So about $600 in today's money. That's about what you would pay nowadays after insurance, if you have really good insurance.

You can actually do it at home cheaper than that (but I say this as someone who wouldn't have been doing the "heavy lifting", terrified that my son would not be delivered properly, but not having to push him out of my distended body), but if you have problems, it becomes a medical crisis requiring an ambulance and possibly even NICU.  There can also be ancillary issues, such as tearing of certain tissues, that require sutures and other medical care. 

Hard to recommend, but some people do it.

And if you don’t have really good insurance?  If there are any complications?  If you have all the recommended prenatal exams and tests without which most ob/gyn’s will be sanctioned or cannot practice?  Or do you go it alone without medically supervised prenatal care, hope for the best, and if not, run the risk of CPS taking your child?  After baby #2 or 3, nobody’s going to believe, “I didn’t know I was pregnant!”  
I remember my grandmother telling of paying an illiterate “midwife” to attend the birth of my uncle in 1919. Everyone was dirt poor, so the payment was $5.00 and a supply of home brewed Polish beer that greatgrandpa manufactured in the cellar.  Better care was certainly available, but not for poor Polish immigrants to NYC of the 1880s.  My grandmother sold her services as a “wetnurse” after the births of my uncle and my mother to women who had no choice but return at once to work or be fired and blacklisted.  

Then you've saved a lot of money, and can spend it on more useful things than pharma-driven doctors holding your family somewhere between healthy and dead, starting with the unborn.

An explosive statement, bound to be troubling to those propagandized by today’s mainstream medico-insurance cartel. 

At the age of 32, Gerd Reuther MD was one of the youngest heads of hospital of Germany. At the age of 55 he jumped ship, and started writing books. His message: for a long and healthy life, one rarely needs a doctor.

Some of his statements:

- your life is in danger, if you undergo medical treatment
- surgery, medicaments, hospital-acquired infections are the cause of 1/3 of all deaths
- 50% of all illnesses treated by physicians, are the result of earlier treatments of other illnesses

The last point was already noted in the 1970s by Thure Freiherr von Uexküll, scholar of psychosomatic medicine.

More statements:

- modern medicine rarely cures people
- modern medicine doesn't admit that they rarely cure
- modern medicine supresses symptoms, clouds awareness
- modern medicine produces new chronical illnesses

https://t.me/auf1tv/254 (German speaking alt news, video)
https://t.me/auf1tv/249 (German speaking alt news, video)