In Babies and more and surely in many other media you will have been able to read more than once some case of a birth in the street, assisted by the police, by ambulance technicians for some lady who was passing by, who knew a little because she was the mother of six children.
The fact is that in this type of news we usually talk about “midwives by force”, “street heroes” or similar adjectives to describe the work done by birth attendants, which is usually explained “take the reins ”Of what is happening.
The reality is that to give birth to a baby you don't need the police, the ambulance or the lady who has given birth to six children, but calm, tranquility and a pregnant woman about to give birth. The protagonist, although the role is always stolen, is the mother, the mother and her baby, because they are the two who stew it and eat it.
You will tell me what a midwife's job can be done by a policeman or the lady who was passing by. Surely they thank you for coming to help (they just needed not to do it), but gentlemen journalists, it is a bit tiring to read this news, one after another, giving all the prominence of the scene to the secondary actors.
A birth is a physiological act that in many cultures is done alone. The woman leaves, is absent and only appears when she has given birth. I do not say that it is right or wrong to do so, I just say that The majority of times a baby is born on the street is because the thing is so rolled that it could have been born anywhere without anyone's help.
The prominence then belongs entirely to the mother and her baby, for demonstrating that giving birth does not have to be so difficult and that it is not necessary that the reins of a childbirth pass to anyone if everything goes well. It is she and her baby who make the news possible and yet they only appear in the photo who decided to help, as if without her presence the baby was not born or had not done so in conditions.
