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I gave birth in a hospital in Scotland, in the UK our primary pregnancy care is through midwives.

Our midwives are NHS trained (I don't know the ins and outs of midwifery training in the US, but I do believe it is much less common to have one), and from the very first appointment, to the birth they are who we deal with, you only see a doctor if something isn't as planned, for example gestational diabetes.

Speaking with the midwife helping with my delivery, we were talking about home births.

She said she has been to a few, because if someone chooses a home birth here, the midwives attend the home to help with the birth, the same as they would in the hospital. She explained about one having to stop and go to a hospital, because if she had delivered at home then there would be major risk to her and the baby (I can't remember what the issue was, I was in labour lol!). Because the midwives were with the woman, they were able to get her to a hospital in plenty of time, if she were alone she may not have known about the issue.

I don't know who attends a home birth in the US, but if someone was doing it without a professional there with them, I could see how that could cause issues because there could be a longer delay in calling an ambulance etc.

This type of content has real impact - whether it’s people thinking COVID is a hoax, or that masks work, or that gargling salt water prevents COVID.

I'm guessing the "or masks work" is meant to say "that masks don't work"? Because the way it is worded makes it seem like you believe that they do not work? I hope that's just an oops moment.

I really enjoyed looking at the scans of your brain, very interesting! Especially the second ones that is crazy! You can see the pathways that your blood vessels have taken, the higher and lower levels, where they connect to, that's your brain! How cool is that?!

My brain likes the picture of your brain! How weird is that! Lol!

Sorry that you have a horrible diagnosis but your brains blood system looks very cool, I've never seen a scan with the blood vessels laid out like that before!

Fingers crossed for you Wonmin! Hope everything with your surgery on your cool-as-fuck brain works out well!