wrote:

From just today:

"Thousands of women are having to give birth outside [UK] maternity
wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...l-toilets.html




It would help if the reader had at least minimal understanding of
hospital maternity units. We don't build specialized hospital units
to accomodate the maximum number of patients possible - they are to
accomodate the most likely need.

Then the factotums in charge of the NHS are evidently no better at
arithmetic than they are at managing care. Of course the managers of the
local trust can report to their betters that "We have never exceeded our
capacity!"

This goofy article mentions women
giving birth on toilets....that does happen now and then, but more
likely in a high-school or college dorm. Giving birth in a bed
outside of the standard delivery room is no biggy - loads of women in the
US
give birth at home BY CHOICE. During a full moon, strange things
happen )

"[Home birth] by loads of women by choice?" Maybe two dozen a year in a
country with ten times the population of the UK*. And whereas midwives are a
staple in the UK, they are used only by the fringe in the US.

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* Actually 8% according to the National Center for Health Statistics.