Why I won't be going to India to have a baby...

Today we toured the "Labor Ward" aka Labor and Delivery Unit. We learned a number of interesting facts about Indian delivery:
1. No epidurals, Indian women want to suffer the labor pain
2. External manual rotation of a breech fetus is common, and yes, just as painful as it sounds. If that doesn't work, partial manual internal rotation is attempted...don't worry, then they'll administer tocolytics.
3. No private rooms, 2 to a room, always, 1 tiny curtain to separate the screaming, laboring women
4. As soon as the baby has descended and the head is showing they transfer you to a completely different room
5. No family members allowed with you during labor
6. Having twins? No C-section, you'll deliver naturally like everyone else
7. If you can't afford a "nice" hospital like PSG then you go to a government funded community facility where only recently the nurses had to be certified and only in the late 1980s did they start wearing gloves during delivery.
8. Everyone must deliver in the lithotomy position, no alternative, more comfortable positions, no water births, no breathing techniques, no massage.
9. Nursing students might be delivering your baby as they have to deliver a certain # of babies in order to get their midwifery certification when they graduate.
10. Postpartum units don't exist. After you deliver you're transferred to the women's ward with all the other medical patients and your baby is sent to the NICU for observation. Hope you don't hemorrhage k?

So there you go, western medicine doesn't quite deserve ALL the crap that it gets from believers in holistic medicine.