Sentences with phrase «midwives involved with»

From 1993 to 1999, using an earlier iteration of the data form, we collected largely retrospective data on a voluntary basis mainly from direct entry midwives involved with home births approached through the Midwives Alliance of North America Statistics and Research Committee and the Canadian Midwives Statistics» Collaboration.

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

The North American Registry of Midwives provided a rare opportunity to study the practice of a defined population of direct entry midwives involved with home birth across the continent.

Midwives involved with home births are not well integrated into the healthcare system in the United States

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Midwives are becoming more and more involved with birthing families and have been instrumental in redefining birth as a natural event in women's lives.

That will likely involve some amount of talking with doctors / nurses / midwives about how things are going and what you want to do at any given point.

I don't know the details, but there was apparently one death involved and one of the midwives left a couple laboring with TWINS at home alone for 17 hours.

Anne has been involved with local midwifery and women's health advocacy organizations in the New York metropolitan area, and among other positions was the Chair of «NYC Midwives» for two terms.

Midwives are trained in guarding the normalcy of pregnancy, birth and postpartum, not disturbing it when all is well, knowing when to compassionately observe with loving support, and when and how to use holistic remedies, or medical intervention only when necessary as a last resort; they are also educated in prevention, assessment and treatment of complications, which most times can be managed simply and naturally, but sometimes involves consultation or referral to an obstetrician.

Together with Mary Jackson home birth midwife they have developed a system for evaluating the needs of pregnant mom's, their babies and the father that involves establishing «two layers of support» to the baby, the mother, the father and also the birth team.

These ideas should be discussed with your spouse, doula, doctor, midwife, and anyone else involved in the birth process.

My first experience of being involved with loss in the maternity field was as a first year student midwife.

* Say life - threatening complications frequently arise during childbirth, particularly hemorrhaging involving the mother and fetal distress; lay midwives — those who are self - trained — are not well prepared to deal with such emergencies.

Homebirth in Oregon involves homebirth midwives (lay people with a credential that they made up and awarded to themselves), often far from hospitals and with no standards whatsoever.

I make connections with midwives who want to be involved in research, or need the help of a researcher to maintain their practice

This study involves accredited birth centers with strict eligibility standards staffed by certified nurse midwives.

I forget if she said whether a midwife was involved but I imagine someone must have been there with her at the time.