Nope mate he wouldn´t be here but for the wife not giving up in the face of her GP´s resignation, lack of knowledge- bandwidth and searching out the Ashermans clinic for herself...the mATERNITY unit at St Tommys could have taken the notes- advice on board and done the recommended C section, I assume because they lacked the resources to fit us in, thereby avoiding the difficult birth, and him not breathing, but for the wife drawing attention to why she couldn´t hear him, me checking and rasising the issue he´d be dead or brain damaged, seriously everyone else in the room was ashen faced...we were very, very lucky and did a fair bit of DIY at several stages of the process, as I think my account illustrates.
Don´t want to believe me, here it is straight from the midwives mouth as it were,
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-67732916