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!!!