I must also add my $.02. I have worked as a nurse and LC in hopital settings for years. Some of the horrible things I have seen happen and needless injury and death I have seen there has turned me very far toward birth center. home births. I wish hospitals were the safe place the general consumer thinks they are! Edie Armstrong BSN, IBCLC, Fairfax, Va. Wishing I could have "qualified" for a noninterventionist birth!!!