Jodi Hillebrand

Clearly.

Yeah.

Normal birth is typically used to be typically attended by midwives.

And then around the 40s and 50s, hospitals started becoming a thing and they wanted to have a revenue stream.

Right.

Wow.

So what's a better revenue stream?

Women are always having babies, right?

So they wanted to bring women into the hospitals to have their babies.

And so it began a bit of a, you know, it was probably before that, but it began a propaganda campaign.

Right.

So, of course, hospitals make money and so they have money and so they can pay for commercials and things like that.

There was this...

They did stigmatize midwives as like crazy women and witches and things like that.

Anytime you have a woman in power, a lot of times the word witch is not too far behind.

That wasn't anything wrong with that.

I'm done with it.

So, you know, there was a big propaganda campaign, bringing women to the hospitals.

And so ever since then, that's become our culture.

Now, if people are like, oh, it's the safest way, it's the best way.