Obstetricians and gynaecologists are bought together in the possible new system and obstetricians are afraid that they will be institutionalized. “The hospital divides the money. And we are concerned that women no longer have freedom of choice,” says Franka Cadée, head of obstetrics at the Royal Dutch Organization of Midwives (KNOV) and chair of the international network of midwives. Cadée is afraid that the home birth will disappear, against the wishes of women.
Fear of disappearing home births: ‘Unique Dutch obstetrics is at stake’
