Second, because midwives' callingcard is not intervening in labour, collaboration between midwives and obstetricians has been shown to lower the number of Caesarean sections.
She is going to have a difficult time, even in the best of circumstances — very narrow in the hips, as you know, and probably will need forceps for her delivery, so I don't want any ignorant darky midwife meddling with her.
And, you know you can't imagine a midwife, with both hands dipped in the blood, and we're talking about HIV, infections, sexually-transmitted diseases and you don't have water to wash with.