These articles were first published in Midwifery Today. Will there be birth beyond medicalization? If so, for whom Anna Marie was afraid. She had a health condition and was pregnant for the first time in her 30s. Medicine saved her. Birth by knife and she had her wanted baby in her arms to love and to cherish for a lifetime. Less than a decade later, her abdomen is filled with adhesions that can only be cut to make more adhesions while she prays for a long life to share with