A thread for midwives to mingle.

@divegeester said
Women “traditionally” have been paid less than men. Is the “traditional” card the one you really want to play?

@kewpie said
Australia has 500-odd male midwives. Plenty of male nurses too. Only people with archaic religious customs would have a problem with that.
Half our current trade apprentices are female. Nobody objects when the female plumber arrives to fix the leaks.

Seems that on this thread it has become clear that there are more insults being delivered than babies.

And so it comes to mind....birds of a feather flock together.

Here is to the good old delivery system, to the storks of yester-years.

How many here know that the business of midwifery was not limited to delivering babies, once upon a time?

@kewpie said
Australia has 500-odd male midwives. Plenty of male nurses too. Only people with archaic religious customs would have a problem with that.
Half our current trade apprentices are female. Nobody objects when the female plumber arrives to fix the leaks.

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@torunn said
What do you mean? I believe in progress not tradition.

@pettytalk said
Seems that on this thread it has become clear that there are more insults being delivered than babies.

@divegeester said
You said it was “traditional” for women to be midwives rather than men, and you then went on to say that “one could argue that women are more suited” (to being midwives), following up with the lack of experience of childbirth also impacting.
That doesn’t sound a very progressive mindset to me.

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@pettytalk said
Seems that on this thread it has become clear that there are more insults being delivered than babies.

And so it comes to mind....birds of a feather flock together.

@torunn said
Please Dive, if you don't like what I post, don't read it. I get tired with you sometimes.

Being able to coexist courteously with people who may have different mindsets is an art, and Torunn does this very well. It's possible for most of us, if we control the natural instinctive belief that one's own ideas are the only right ones.

For Christ's sake! The world is coming to an end, do we really want any more babies delivered? They will have to be sent back, address unknown, no such number, no such zone, 3rd Rock from the Sun. No one lives there any longer. All dead and gone. See Voyager 1 or 2 for the forwarding address on record.

@torunn said
Please Dive, if you don't like what I post, don't read it. I get tired with you sometimes, you can't accept that I don't express myself as explicitly and well as you do. I would in Swedish though. Just leave it, please.

@kewpie said
Being able to coexist courteously with people who may have different mindsets is an art, and Torunn does this very well. It's possible for most of us, if we control the natural instinctive belief that one's own ideas are the only right ones.

@pettytalk said
For Christ's sake! The world is coming to an end, do we really want any more babies delivered? They will have to be sent back, address unknown, no such number, no such zone, 3rd Rock from the Sun. No one lives there any longer. All dead and gone. See Voyager 1 or 2 for the forwarding address on record.

@torunn said
Please Dive, if you don't like what I post, don't read it.