We had our daughter last november, and now I wish we would have had a midwife. I thought exactly what SP said in post #6 - that midwives were for home births. I had no idea it was more like using a realtor for a home sale, as fotze puts it.
The whole process was relatively problem free, but there were a couple of times that a midwife would have been really nice. Post partum didn't go so well because my gf has a certain medical condition. Basically, it would have been extremely helpful to have "professional advice" during PP and before delivery. The obsetrician was really nice and all, but in the grand scheme of things, we were just another appointment for him, and as he always had another appointment waiting, we never really got to sit there and pick his brain about things. And whenever we had a question pop into our head, the only place we could really ask it was on the internet. And that's just a terrible place for a pregnant woman to be asking questions because you'll always get conflicting answers, and it just makes a nervous woman even more nervous.
And asking friends that have kids questions was just as useless. People can only answer based on their own experience, so what good is that? If you can ask someone who has "been through it" dozens of times it really would have been nice.
And just try asking your mom a question about pregnancy. You'll get an answer relevant to the 70s.
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