Despite advances in modern healthcare practice, Traditional Birth Attendants, an age-long go-to facility for pregnant women continue to thrive. With challenges faced in the Nigeria’s healthcare system, and the goal to improve maternal and child health outcomes, barriers and opportunities responsible for this thriving form of childbirth is examined. IJEOMA THOMAS-ODIA writes.He said, “there are more to childbirth that can be imagined. There is one hospital that I know in Alimosho area of Lagos, the only way they know how to deliver is Caesarian Section (CS). For every 10 births, CS is always like six, and you ask, is it that women no longer labour or push to have kids?”