CHASKA, Minn. — (CBS Minnesota) As if giving birth wasn’t stressful enough.
“It’s the mom and the baby that run the show,” Emily Birdsall, a mom of four, asserted to WCCO Investigates. “You want to have a birth when the doctor is available, so they schedule you, but you’re not ready to give birth. That’s just not the way it’s supposed to go.”
Birdsall is among a growing population of women who are foregoing the traditional labor and delivery unit in a hospital and are instead giving birth in centers run by midwives…