For what it's worth, the Netherlands was well knowm for a long time because we defaulted to midwife supervised hone birth with effective escalation in case of

For what it's worth, the Netherlands was well knowm for a long time because we defaulted to midwife supervised hone birth with effective escalation in case of complications. Up until I think 10 or so years ago we had one of Europe's best delivery success rates with that. After that it seems that hospital deliveries became a safer choice and we've had relatively bad percentages since then because we culturally still value home births highly.